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Job Demand: Medium
Average weekly wage: $1,990
Where you could work:
Dentists: Totally Teeth, Oasis Dental Studio
Queensland Health: Gold Coast University Hospital
Dental Hygienists do the following tasks:
- Providing educational programs to motivate children, parents and the community in matters relating to oral health
- Providing fluoride therapy by applying remineralising solutions and desensitising agents
- Removing deposits from teeth
- Applying non-invasive fissure sealants to teeth
- Taking impressions of the mouth
- Taking dental radiographs
- Administering local anaesthesia by infiltration and mandibular nerve block
- Fabricating full and partial dentures
- Constructing mouth guards, crowns, metal clasps, inlays, bridgework and other aids
- Repairing and relining denture bases