- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who provides dental care for infants, children, and adolescents. Responsibilities include:
* Fabricates space maintainers designed for patients.
* Treats primary and secondary teeth and constructs and places bridges, dentures, and obturating appliances suitable for growing arches.
* Manages patients with behavioral problems or handicapping conditions.
* Counsels and advises patients and family on growth and development dental problems of patient.
* Provides preventive services through use of fluorides and sealants and instructs patient and family members on dental care.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who provides dental care for infants, children, and adolescents. Responsibilities include:
* Fabricates space maintainers designed for patients.
* Treats primary and secondary teeth and constructs and places bridges, dentures, and obturating appliances suitable for growing arches.
* Manages patients with behavioral problems or handicapping conditions.
* Counsels and advises patients and family on growth and development dental problems of patient.
* Provides preventive services through use of fluorides and sealants and instructs patient and family members on dental care.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who diagnoses and treats inflammatory and destructive diseases of investing and supporting tissue of teeth. Responsibilities include:
* Cleans and polishes teeth, eliminates irritating margins of fillings, and corrects occlusions.
* Performs surgical procedures to remove diseased tissue, using dental instruments.
* Establishes recall treatment program to monitor oral health practices.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who restores and maintains oral functions. Responsibilities include:
* Records physiologic position of jaws to determine shape and size of dental prostheses, using face bows, dental articulators, and other recording devices.
* Replaces missing teeth and associated oral structures with artificial teeth to improve chewing, speech, and appearance.
* Corrects natural and acquired deformation of mouth and jaws through use of prosthetic appliances.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who restores and maintains oral functions. Responsibilities include:
* Records physiologic position of jaws to determine shape and size of dental prostheses, using face bows, dental articulators, and other recording devices.
* Replaces missing teeth and associated oral structures with artificial teeth to improve chewing, speech, and appearance.
* Corrects natural and acquired deformation of mouth and jaws through use of prosthetic appliances.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, organizes, and maintains dental health program of public health agency. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes dental needs of community to determine changes and trends in patterns of dental disease.
* Instructs community, school, and other groups on preventive oral health care services.
* Produces and evaluates dental health educational materials.
* Provides clinical and laboratory dental care and services.
* Instigates methods for evaluating changes in dental health status and needs of community.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who administers dental program in hospital and directs departmental activities in accordance with accepted national standards and administrative policies. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with hospital administrators to formulate policies and recommend procedural changes.
* Establishes training program to advance knowledge and clinical skill levels of resident dentists studying for dental specializations.
* Implements procedures for hiring of professional staff and approves hiring and promotion of staff members.
* Establishes work schedules and assigns staff members to duty stations to maximize efficient use of staff.
* Observes and assists staff members at work to ensure safe and ethical practices and to solve problems and demonstrate techniques.
* Confers with hospital administrator to submit budget and statistical reports used to justify expenditures for equipment, supplies, and personnel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines, diagnoses, and treats diseases of laboratory animals to ensure health of animals used in scientific research and to comply with regulations governing their humane and ethical treatment. Responsibilities include:
* Examines animals to detect indications of disease or injury, and treats animals when indications are found, to prevent spread of disease to other animals or workers.
* Discusses research projects with associates to plan procedures and selects animals for specific research based on knowledge of species and research principles and techniques.
* Participates in research projects.
* Oversees activities concerned with feeding, care, and maintenance of animal quarters to ensure compliance with laboratory regulations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who studies form and structure of animals, both gross and microscopic. Required to hold degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who studies biology, ecology, etiology, bacteriology, virology, and immunology of micro-organisms causing diseases in animals. Responsibilities include:
* Prepares laboratory cultures of micro-organisms taken from body fluids and tissues of diseased animals and identifies them by microscopic examination and bacteriological tests.
* Tests virulence of pathogenic organisms by observing effects of inoculations on laboratory and other animals.
* Investigates efficiency of vaccines, antigens, antibiotics, and other materials in prevention, diagnosis, and control of animal diseases.
* May specialize in bacteria causing animal diseases and be known as Veterinary Bacteriologist.
* May specialize in study of viruses and rickettsiae and be known as Veterinary Virologist.
* May be required to hold degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
Industry:Professional careers
