Provider - Dentist

Provider - Dentist

Job Description

Work Location: All FamilyCare Dental Sites

Qualifications:

 Valid license to practice dentistry in the State of West Virginia as issued by the WV Board  of Dentistry. 

Basic Function:

Provide clinical dental services and preventive dental care in a community health care setting. Dental providers are expected to manage all patients and conditions within the scope of their training and approved privileges.

Duties and Responsibilities:

 •  Develops a plan of care for each patient, including complete medical and dental history, a dental examination, diagnosis of any pathology or injury, appropriate treatment, and referral when necessary.

•  Confers with consulting dentists and/or primary care providers, the patient or patient's guardian concerning treatment and care.

•  Examines patient to determine nature of condition.

•  Cleans teeth and provides preventive dental services to patient, such as applications of fluoride and sealants to teeth.

•  Performs appropriate treatment to patients including operative procedures, extractions, root canal therapy, along with fixed and removable prosthetics.