GENERAL SUMMARY OF DUTIES: The Registered Dental Assistant (RDA) will assist a provider (dentist or hygienist) chairside, pass instruments, maintain operatories, patient record keeping, take/develop radiographs, sterilize instruments, and perform expanded duties outlined in the Administrative Rules of the Michigan Board of Dentistry. Perform all routine chairside dental assisting procedures; instrument/material set-up, four-handed instrument passing technique, aspiration, and irrigation of oral field, mixing cements, bases, filling materials and taking impressions.