Dentist - Prosthodontics

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application.

Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply.

Washington DC VA Medical Center is filling one vacancy for a Dentist - Prosthodontics, VM-0680-15.

Opening Date:
October 30, 2025

Closing Date:
May 1, 2026

Cut-Off Dates:
November 13, 2025, November 28, 2025, December 11, 2025, December 26, 2025, January 8, 2026, January 22, 2026, February 5, 2026, February 19, 2026, March 5, 2026, March 19, 2026, April 2, 2026, April 16, 2026, April 30, 2026.

The cut-off dates will be used to evaluate candidates for the initial available vacancies.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Customer service

* Relationships with management, co-workers, patients, and the public are consistently courteous, respectful, and cooperative in nature.

* Employee will display a cooperative attitude and will effectively work together to implement the organization's mission and goals and support performance measures.

* Employee will ensure productivity is maintained at the established level utilizing recommended Central Office Relative Value Unit (RVU) requirements.

Patient care

* Comprehensive prosthodontics examination, consultation, overall restorative treatment planning

* Complete and partial over dentures, involving 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 cast metal bases or cast metal occlusals

* Single unit complete dentures opposing natural dentition (complicated)

* Dentures on surgically augmented residual ridges

* Nonsurgical management of temporomandibular disorders

* Minor tooth movement (fixed appliances)

* Intraoral maxillofacial prostheses and repairs

* Prostheses on intraoral osseointegrated fixtures

* Treatment of Sleep Apnea

* All Prosthodontic Diagnostic Index Class III and IV cases

Work Schedule:

Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm

Telework:
Not Available

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

EDRP Authorized:
Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive.

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