Clean teeth and examine oral areas, head, and neck for signs of oral disease. May educate patients on oral hygiene, take and develop X-rays, or apply fluoride or sealants.

Other names for Dental Hygienists: Dental Hygienist, Dental Nurse, Hygienist, Oral Hygienist, Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH),

• Expose and develop x-ray film.
• Provide clinical services and health education to improve and maintain oral health of school children.
• Remove excess cement from coronal surfaces of teeth.
• Clean calcareous deposits, accretions, and stains from teeth and beneath margins of gums, using dental instruments.
• Feel and visually examine gums for sores and signs of disease.
• Chart conditions of decay and disease for diagnosis and treatment by dentist.
• Feel lymph nodes under patient's chin to detect swelling or tenderness that could indicate presence of oral cancer.
• Apply fluorides and other cavity preventing agents to arrest dental decay.
• Examine gums, using probes, to locate periodontal recessed gums and signs of gum disease.
• Make impressions for study casts.
• Place, carve, and finish amalgam restorations.
• Administer local anesthetic agents.
• Conduct dental health clinics for community groups to augment services of dentist.
• Remove sutures and dressings.
• Place and remove rubber dams, matrices, and temporary restorations.

• Dental laboratory air abrasion units
• Teeth cleaning devices or accessories
• Teeth cleaning devices or accessories
• Amalgam carriers
• Dental cutting or separating discs
• Dental syringes or needles or syringes with needles
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Dental scalers or accessories
• Dental bite blocks or wings or tabs
• Dental probes
• Dental lasers
• Dental probes
• Dental scalers or accessories
• Scanners
• Orthodontic pliers
• Dental scalers or accessories
• Dental examination chairs or related parts or accessories
• Dental lasers
• Dental syringes or needles or syringes with needles
• Teeth cleaning devices or accessories
• Dental x ray units
• Digital cameras
• Dental x ray units
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Dental hygiene instruments
• Medical radiation films or badges
• Dental scalers or accessories
• Dental scalers or accessories
• Dental impression trays
• Dental instrument sharpening accessories
• Digital cameras
• Medical radiological shielding aprons or masks or drapes
• Mercury blood pressure units
• Dental matrices or sets
• Dental amalgamators
• Mechanical stethoscopes or accessories
• Mercury blood pressure units
• Microscope slides
• Teeth cleaning devices or accessories
• Dental probes
• Dental lasers
• Oxygen therapy delivery system products accessories or its supplies
• Notebook computers
• Oxygen therapy delivery system products accessories or its supplies
• Dental x ray units
• Dental radiology film
• Dental probes
• Personal computers
• Dental x ray units
• Dental pulp or vitality testers
• Dental operatory retraction cords
• Attachments or replacement parts for dental instruments
• Dental dam supplies
• Dental saliva ejectors or oral suction devices or supplies
• Dental scalers or accessories
• Dental saliva ejectors or oral suction devices or supplies
• Dental scalers or accessories
• Ultrasonic cleaning equipment
• Dental film processors

Inventory management software

Accounting software

Word processing software

Calendar and scheduling software

Medical software

Internet browser software

Electronic mail software