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Posted: 03-Sep-23
Location: North Chicago, Illinois
Type: Full Time
Salary: 115,587 - 243,000
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Required Education:
Internal Number: 91029881
The Prosthodontist for Dental Service is responsible for providing comprehensive examination, consultation, and overall restorative treatments to patients at the CAPT James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC).
The facility is located less than an hour from downtown Chicago and all the amenities it offers. Chicago is known for its significant advancement in performing arts, Chicago and Prairie School architecture, bustling restaurant and nightlife, multicultural musical venues and numerous public historical museums and fine art galleries
Located in North Chicago, Illinois, Lovell FHCC and was established on Oct. 1, 2010, when the former North Chicago VA Medical Center {VAMC) and the former Naval Health Clinic Great Lakes {NHCGL) merged their resources and services. The combined mission of the health care center means active-duty military, their family members, military retirees and other veterans are all cared for at the facility. The health care center ensures that more than 40,000 Navy recruits who transition through Naval Station Great Lakes each year are medically ready to serve, in addition to nearly 67,000 eligible military and retiree beneficiaries from Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin who receive first-rate Comprehensive health care services.
PROSTHODONTIST MAJOR DUTIES:
Comprehensive prosthodontic examination, consultation, overall restorative treatment planning, complete and partial overdentures, the combination case syndrome, fixed and removable prostheses involving precision attachments, prosthodontic treatment of malposed teeth, occlusal plane discrepancies, changes to the existing vertical dimension of occlusion with or without concomitant restoration of anterior guidance, full veneer ceramic restorations, as well as ceramic inlays and onlays, oral reconstruction to include, but not limited to opposing quadrants restored with fixed prostheses, techniques involving functionally generated path or fully adjustable instruments, complete dentures involving complicated occlusal schemes, complete dentures involving a cast metal bases or cast metal occlusal, single unit complete dentures opposing natural dentition (complicated), dentures on surgically augmented residual ridges, rotational path removable partial dentures, nonsurgical management of temporomandibular disorders, resin bonded fixed partial dentures, minor tooth movement (fixed appliances), intraoral maxillofacial prostheses and repairs, prostheses fabrication and maintenance on intraoral osseointegrated fixtures.
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Benefits:
Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of annual paid time offer per year {26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year, and possible 5-day paid absence for CME)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension {5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting
Preferred Experience: completion of post-graduate Prosthodontic residency
Dentist Basic Requirements
- A degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery or dental medicine resulting from a course of education in dentistry. The degree must have been obtained from one of the schools approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed. Approved schools are (1) United States and Canadian schools of dentistry listed by the Commission on Dental Accreditation(CODA), in the list published for the year in which the course of study was completed.(2) Schools (including foreign schools) accepted by the licensing body of a State, Territory, or Commonwealth (i.e., Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia as qualifying for full and unrestricted licensure provided the licensure requirements include a written examination measuring science achievement and a performance examination measuring clinical competence certification, and must obtain a copy of the ECFMG certificate, if claimed by the applicant. ~AND~
- Completed, or you are currently completing, a residency program in general practice or specialty, or comparable experience as a dentist actively involved in treating medically compromised patients. ~AND~
- Currently hold, or will hold, a current, full and unrestricted license to practice dentistry in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia. Note: Dentists must maintain current registration in the State of licensure if this is a requirement for continuing active, current licensure.
