Listing Description
One of Australasia’s largest dental practitioners group is seeking to recruit dental professionals. With over 120 practices in New Zealand, they offer full time, permanent employment, and offer a generous relocation allowance.
In New Zealand, the key role description for this type of role is to carry out preventative dental procedures under the direction of a Dentist. Also, a dental prosthetist designs, constructs, repairs and fits dentures and mouthguards.
Roles include:
- Dental Hygienist
- Dental Prosthetist
- Dental Technician
- Dental Therapist
Tasks Include:
- providing educational programs to motivate children, parents and the community in matters relating to oral health
- providing fluoride therapy by applying remineralising solutions and desensitising agents
- removing deposits from teeth
- applying non-invasive fissure sealants to teeth
- taking impressions of the mouth
- taking dental radiographs
- administering local anaesthesia by infiltration and mandibular nerve block
- fabricating full and partial dentures
- constructing mouth guards, crowns, metal clasps, inlays, bridgework and other aids
- repairing and relining denture bases