General Dentist

A general dentist performs a full range of professional dental duties in connection with the treatment of commonly encountered dental diseases or dental health problems requiring standard corrective, restorative, or preventive measures. The candidate provides patient care which is appropriate to the cognitive, emotional, and chronological maturation needs of the patients.

• • Duties include, but may not be limited to the following:

    • Comprehensive oral examination, consultation, diagnosis, and treatment planning including the use of radiographs, photographs, diagnostic tests, impressions, jaw relation records, and diagnostic casts
    • Preliminary diagnosis, initial treatment, or stabilization of oral manifestations of systemic disease
    • Preventive dentistry services
    • Restorative dentistry procedures: amalgam and resin based composite restorations, inlays, onlays, veneers, post and core procedures, and crowns
    • Endodontic procedures: uncomplicated nonsurgical root canal therapy for permanent teeth, pulp caps, pulpotomy, pulpectomy, apexification, apexogenesis, minor tooth movement, Intentional tooth replantation (extraction replantation) or transplantation
    • Periodontic procedures: scaling and root planning, full mouth debridement, gingivectomy, gingivoplasty, gingival curettage, localized delivery of chemotherapeutic agents, periodontal maintenance procedures, nonsurgical management of temporomandibular disorders
    • Fixed Prosthodontic Procedures: uncomplicated fixed partial dentures not increasing the vertical dimension of occlusion, full veneer ceramic restorations, as well as ceramic inlays and onlays
    • Removable Prosthodontic Procedures: uncomplicated complete dentures, partial dentures, and immediate dentures; relines and repairs of complete and partial dentures
    • Oral Surgery /Pathology procedures: Uncomplicated extraction, management of odontogenic infections and diseases through pharmacologic means and intraoral incision and drainage, uncomplicated dentoalveolar surgery including minor alveoplasty and alveolectomy, uncomplicated biopsies of soft and hard tissue in the oral cavity (such as tongue, lip, mucosa, gingival tissue), uncomplicated lacerations, surgical removal of residual tooth roots/erupted teeth/ soft-tissue impacted teeth, diagnostic histopathology and cytology
    • Evaluation and non-surgical management temporomandibular Dysfunction including fabrication of occlusal guard. Limited occlusal adjustment, provisional splinting, and occlusal splints.
    • Internal and external bleaching
    • Local anesthesia
    • General Dentist located at Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) must maintain proximity while the Dental Hygienist is providing patient care to ensure appropriate oversight, guidance and immediate assistance should the need arises.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8am - 4:30pm