Join Our Team and Change Lives Every Day!
Affordable Dentures & Implants is seeking a compassionate, skilled Expanded Functions Dental Assistant (EFDA) to join our growing team (MUST HAVE Wisconsin EFDA certification to apply).
If you’re passionate about patient care and want to expand your experience in prosthodontics, dental implants, oral surgery, and removable prosthetics, this is an excellent opportunity to build a rewarding career while making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives.
Our team partners with experienced dentists and in-house lab professionals to deliver high-quality, life-changing tooth replacement solutions to hundreds of thousands of patients each year. We offer a supportive, fast-paced environment where your skills are valued, your professional growth is encouraged, and every day brings the opportunity to restore confidence through exceptional patient care.
What You’ll Do
As a Dental Assistant, you’ll provide exceptional chairside support while helping patients throughout every stage of their treatment experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver outstanding patient care and create a welcoming, positive experience from check-in through treatment.
- Prepare operatories, instruments, equipment, and materials before each patient appointment.
- Assist dentists during denture procedures, dental implant placement, oral surgery, extractions, and prosthetic treatments in accordance with state regulations.
- Take and assist with alginate denture impressions, select appropriate impression trays, and prepare wax bites under dentist direction.
- Assist with denture insertions, adjustments, relines, repairs, and other expanded duties where permitted by state law.
- Educate patients on treatment plans, denture options, implant procedures, post-operative care, home care instructions, and financial packages.
- Obtain and document patient medical histories, treatment information, and clinical notes accurately.
- Take dental radiographs (X-rays) in accordance with state certification requirements.
- Maintain strict infection prevention and sterilization standards by cleaning, disinfecting, and sterilizing instruments and operatories.
- Monitor inventory levels and assist with ordering clinical supplies.
- Support daily office operations, including maintaining a clean, organized clinical environment.
- Travel occasionally for training and continuing education opportunities as needed.
- Perform additional duties to support patient care and office success.
What We’re Looking For
Required:
- High School Diploma or GED
- Wisconsin EFDA and X-ray certification
- Strong communication and patient service skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced clinical environment
- Commitment to teamwork, professionalism, and compassionate patient care
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1+ year of dental assisting experience
- Experience assisting with dentures, removable prosthetics, or dental implants
- Experience taking denture impressions and wax bites
- Experience assisting with oral surgery and extractions
- Experience with prosthodontic procedures
- Familiarity with dental practice management software and electronic patient records
Physical Requirements
- Ability to stand, walk, bend, reach, and sit for extended periods throughout the workday
- Ability to lift and move up to 50 pounds occasionally
- Ability to work safely in a clinical environment while following OSHA and infection control protocols
Why Join Affordable Dentures & Implants?
- Specialized experience in dentures, dental implants, prosthodontics, and oral surgery
- Opportunity to work alongside experienced dentists and dental laboratory professionals
- Career growth and ongoing training opportunities
- Collaborative, team-focused work environment
- Rewarding career helping patients regain their smiles, confidence, and quality of life
If you’re an energetic Dental Assistant who enjoys providing exceptional patient care and wants to grow your clinical skills in a specialized practice, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and become part of a team dedicated to transforming lives—one smile at a time.
Benefits
We care about our employees and understand the hard work that goes into providing the best-in-class patient care. You will be provided the training needed to provide you with the support you need to do your job well. Additional benefits include, group medical and dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, flexible spending (health and dependent care), 401(k), 9 paid holidays off, 10 days of vacation, and 5 additional PTO days. We also offer ancillary benefits to include hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance options.
About Affordable Care
Founded in 1975, today Affordable Care, LLC is America’s largest dental support organization (DSO) focused on tooth replacement services, serving more than 360 dental practices across the United States. Supported practices primarily concentrate on extractions, dentures, implants, and fixed arches, with some practices housing an on-site laboratory to enable same-day dental services. Affordable Care is the DSO for several top dental brands including, but not limited to, Affordable Dentures & Implants, DDS Dentures + Implant Solutions, and Advanced Dental Implant Centers. From the Affordable Care Support Center, located in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, along with field-based teams, Affordable Care provides business expertise and support services to dental practices, taking care of non-clinical duties so dentists can focus on treating patients (visit affordablecare.com). #DA
