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Dental instruments are tools that dental professionals use to provide dental treatment.

Dental Instruments

Dental assistantsassist the dental operator (dentistor other treatingdental auxiliary) in providing more efficientdental treatment, by preparing the patient for treatment, sterilizing instruments, passing instruments during the procedure, holding suction devices, exposing dental radiographs, taking impressions, and fabricating provisional crowns.

Dental Assistance

A dental impression is a negative imprint of hard (teeth) and soft tissues in the mouth from which a positive reproduction (or cast) can be formed.

Dental Impressions

Digital radiography is a form of X-ray imaging, where digital X-ray sensors are used instead of traditional photographic film.

Digital Radiography

The terms medical record, health record, and medical chart are used somewhat interchangeably to describe the systematic documentation of a single patient's medical history and care across time within one particular health care provider's jurisdiction.

Medical History Documentation

The medical history or (medical) case history of a patient is information gained by a physician by asking specific questions, either of the patient or of other people who know the person and can give suitable information, with the aim of obtaining information useful in formulating a diagnosis and providing medical care to the patient.

Medical History Review

Orthodontia, also known as orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, is a specialty field of dentistry.

Orthodontics

A patient is any recipient of health care services.

Patient Treatment

Working knowledge of Patient/Family Education and Instruction, which is the process by which health professionals and others impart information to patients and their caregivers that will alter their health behaviors or improve their health status.

Patient/Family Education and Instruction

Performs routine dental care, including cleaning teeth and examining patients for signs of oral diseases, and educates patients about good oral health practices. Assists dentists in more complex dental procedures. Works in dental offices under the supervision of dentists and other dental health specialists. 

Dental Hygienist

Requires Oral Diseases knowledge. Oral and maxillofacialdiseses refer to the diseases of the mouth (oral cavity or stoma), jaws (maxillae or gnath) and related structures such as salivary glands, temporomandibular joints, facial muscles and perioral skin (the skin around the mouth).

Oral Diseases knowledge

a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners

Dental Procedures

Working experience of Dental Calculus. In dentistry, calculus or tartar is a form of hardened dental plaque. It is caused by precipitation of minerals from saliva and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) in plaque on the teeth. This process of precipitation kills the bacterial cells within dental plaque, but the rough and hardened surface that is formed provides an ideal surface for further plaque formation. This leads to calculus buildup, which compromises the health of the gingiva (gums).

Dental Calculus

Plaque control: the removal of dental plaque on a regular basis and the prevention of its accumulation on the teeth and adjacent gingival surfaces.

Plaque Control

Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas or nitrous, is a chemical compound, an oxide of nitrogen with the formula N 2O. At room temperature, it is a colorless non-flammable gas, with a slightly metallic scent and taste.

Nitrous Oxide

Preparing a treatment room, which is a room in a patient care unit, usually in a hospital, in which various treatments or procedures requiring special equipment are performed, such as removing sutures, draining a hematoma, packing a wound, or performing an examination.

Location	Median Salary
Bronx, NY	$39.64
National	$34.01
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Location	Median Salary
Bronx, NY	$39.64
National	$34.01
Location +/-	14% Higher Search another salary

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