Dentist

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Dental Director, the Dentist is responsible for providing oral care to outpatients by diagnosing and treating diseases, injuries, and malformations of the teeth and gums.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Educate patients on oral healthcare
• Complete comprehensive dental exams and diagnose and treat diseases, injuries, or malformations of teeth, gums, or related oral structures.
• Provide comprehensive preventive, restorative, endodontic, fixed and removable prosthodontic, pediatric, and oral surgery treatment
• Assess treatment planning options and discuss with patients
• Carry out agreed clinical treatments and analyze or evaluate dental needs to determine changes or trends in patterns of dental disease during the course of treatment.
• Maintain patients' dental records
• Precept dental student externs and AEGD residents
• Assist in the recruitment, training and management of auxiliary dental staff
• Stay abreast of new developments in dentistry through structured continuing professional development
• Participate in case reviews to ensure the delivery of quality care
• Participate in quality improvement projects

Other duties and/or other departments/locations as applies.