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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Dental Hygienists

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Administer oral hygiene care to patients. Assess patient oral hygiene problems or needs and maintain health records. Advise patients on oral health maintenance and disease prevention. May provide advanced care such as providing fluoride treatment or administering topical anesthesia.

Dental Hygienists · O*NET 29-1292.00 · Job Zone 3 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

8 of 17tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

22 matched to the tools dental hygienists use. Showing 22.

The tools this job actually uses

17 documented for this occupation. Showing 17, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Henry Schein Dentrixhot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • Dental billing software
  • Dental charting software
  • Dental clinical records software
  • Dental digital radiology software
  • Dental imaging software
  • Dental intra-oral imaging software
  • Dental office management software
  • Email software
  • Open Dental
  • Patterson Dental Supply Patterson EagleSoft
  • Scheduling software
  • Voice-activated perio charting software
  • Web browser software

What this job involves

16 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 16.

  1. Record and review patient medical histories.
  2. Feel and visually examine gums for sores and signs of disease.
  3. Examine gums, using probes, to locate periodontal recessed gums and signs of gum disease.
  4. Clean calcareous deposits, accretions, and stains from teeth and beneath margins of gums, using dental instruments.
  5. Provide clinical services or health education to improve and maintain the oral health of patients or the general public.
  6. Chart conditions of decay and disease for diagnosis and treatment by dentist.
  7. Expose and develop x-ray film.
  8. Attend continuing education courses to maintain or update skills.
  9. Apply fluorides or other cavity preventing agents to arrest dental decay.
  10. Maintain dental equipment and sharpen and sterilize dental instruments.
  11. Maintain patient recall system.
  12. Feel lymph nodes under patient's chin to detect swelling or tenderness that could indicate presence of oral cancer.
  13. Administer local anesthetic agents.
  14. Remove excess cement from coronal surfaces of teeth.
  15. Conduct dental health clinics for community groups to augment services of dentist.
  16. Make impressions for study casts.