Dental Hygienist
REF 1761006
19.03.2025 | Sharjah | full time
- General
- Location: Sharjah
- Occupancy: full time
- To join : immediately
- Description
- Dental hygienists provide dental hygiene treatment and services related to oral health promotion and disease and mouth injury prevention. They are employed in a variety of settings including dentists offices, hospitals, private clinics, educational institutions, public health agencies or they may be self-employed. Dental therapists provide limited restorative dental treatment in addition to dental hygiene services. They are employed by the federal government and the provincial governments to provide services in rural and remote communities.
Job duties
Dental hygienists
- Conduct patient screening and oral health assessments, including taking vital signs and documenting patient medical and health history
- Take dental impressions
- Take and develop X-rays
- Perform preventative dental procedures such as teeth cleaning, scaling, gum stimulation and fluoride and sealant applications
- Provide oral care instructions such as oral hygiene procedures, strategies to maintain and improve oral health and on the impact of nutrition on oral health
- Consult with dentists on patient care
- May perform restorative and orthodontic procedures under the direction of a dentist
- May supervise dental assistants in their health care functions
- May participate in community- or school-based oral health initiatives such as oral screening.
- Requirements
- Associate’s degree from an accredited hygiene program.
State hygiene license.
Knowledgeable about oral hygiene and dental health.
- Provisions
- Salary: to be discussed
- Employment visa provided
- Transport provided
- Publisher
- direct employer
- 50 - 200 employees