Lead Managing Dental Assistant

The Lead Managing Dental Assistant assists and supports the dentist and Operations Leader in delivering patient care and contributes to the practice’s financial and non-financial success by prioritizing patients. This role gains patient trust within the scope of the assistant’s licensure and/or training and reports to the Dentist / Operations Leader. Responsibilities include managing supply orders and inventory, supervising back-office clinical assistants, overseeing equipment maintenance, MSDS logs, product updates, and lab cases, and tracking medical emergency medications and equipment. The role sets up and breaks down operatories, prepares patients and instruments, assists chairside, takes radiographs and digital/3D images as prescribed, provides post-operative instructions and oral hygiene education, coordinates chairside treatment and payments, enters records into practice management under dentist direction, follows up on unscheduled treatment by phone, completes required continuing education, and follows HIPAA and OSHA safety procedures. The position is non-exempt, at-will, incentive eligible, and part of Operations.