The Greater Los Angeles Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for a Staff Periodontist to join our Dental Service Line in a full-time clinical and teaching role. This is an excellent opportunity for a periodontist interested in combining comprehensive specialty care, implant dentistry, and resident education while caring for Veterans in a collaborative VA environment.

Key Responsibilities: As a Staff Periodontist, you’ll provide periodontal and peri-implant care across a broad clinical scope, including:

• Comprehensive periodontal evaluations, diagnosis, consultation, and treatment planning
• Periodontal and peri-implant disease management
• Osseous grafting and resective periodontal surgery
• Soft-tissue, palatal, and connective-tissue grafting
• Root resective procedures
• Ridge augmentation and hard- and soft-tissue contouring
• Guided tissue regeneration and guided bone regeneration
• Surgical placement, maintenance, and removal of dental implants
• Sinus augmentation associated with implant placement
• Vestibuloplasty and frenectomy
• Alveoloplasty
• Surgical tooth exposure and perforation repair
• Tooth extractions, including impacted teeth associated with periodontal surgery
• Intentional tooth replantation or transplantation
• Minor tooth movement using fixed appliances
• Surgical removal of dentoalveolar osseous lesions and exostoses
• Nonsurgical management of temporomandibular disorders
  
  

Moderate (conscious) sedation may be included in the provider’s scope after completing and maintaining required VA credentialing, privileging, training, and competency requirements. Responsibilities include safe sedation administration and monitoring, informed consent and documentation, compliance with sedation protocols, resident supervision within approved scope, and appropriate response to sedation-related complications.

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong clinical judgment and commitment to high-quality patient care
• Competency in periodontal and implant surgical procedures
• A collaborative approach to multidisciplinary care
• An interest in teaching and mentoring dental residents
• Commitment to practicing within established privileges, standards of care, and patient-safety requirements
• Compassion, professionalism, and respect for Veterans, colleagues, and trainees

Work Schedule:  Full-time / On-site

Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Doctor of Dental Surgery or Dental Medicine
• Current, full, and unrestricted license
• Completion or in-progress of completing residency in core specialty OR
  • Comparable experience as a dentist involved in treating medically compromised patients
• Preferred:
  • Board Certified in Periodontology
  • Sedation permit from a state licensing board

Benefits and Features:

• Salary Range: $235,000,000-$265,000
• PTO: 50–55 days of PTO annually (26/13 days of annual/sick leave, 11 holidays,)
• Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided.
• Dental, Medical, Life Insurance, Pension, TSP (401K) with 5% match, Survivor Benefits 
• Up to $1,000 or more annually and up to 5 days paid absence for CME
• Service without strings: No employment contracts or restrictive covenants
• Opportunity for UCLA Geffen School of Medicine Faculty appointment
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions.