dental hygienist
Code 3251.2
The dental hygienist (higienista bucodental) delivers oral hygiene, preventive education and support to the dentist in clinic. Use this Job Dictionary profile to high-demand preventive dental role.
Essential skills
Skills and competences
- Manejar terminología técnica en salud
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply antibacterial substance to teeth
- accept own accountability
- deal with patients' anxiety
- communicate in healthcare
- contribute to continuity of health care
- comply with legislation related to health care
- educate on oral healthcare and disease prevention
- remove calculus, plaque and stains
- empathise with the healthcare user
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- evaluate clinical outcomes of dental hygiene interventions
- perform dental hygiene interventions
- perform dental radiographs
- listen actively
- promote inclusion
- promote health and safety policies in health services
- polish dental restorations
- perform dental charting
- interact with healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- follow dentists' instructions
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
Transversal competences
- deal with emergency care situations
- respond to changing situations in health care
- apply organisational techniques
- counsel on nutrition and its impact on oral health
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- manage infection control in the facility
- provide health education
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
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What to assess for this role
Assess technique, biosafety and manner with anxious patients.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a dental hygienist do?
- Cleans, educates on hygiene and supports procedures per the dentist's protocol.
- Does it replace the dentist?
- No: they work under dental direction.
- What to assess when hiring?
- A prophylaxis test and biosafety compliance.
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Sources
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences