Certified Dental Assistant with 4 years chairside in general and restorative practices, fluent in four-handed assisting, sterilization protocols, and digital radiography. Charts and schedules in Dentrix, keeps operatories turning over fast, and puts anxious patients at ease before the dentist sits down.
- Assist two dentists chairside through 18 to 24 patient visits per day, providing four-handed support for restorative, crown-and-bridge, and extraction procedures.
- Capture digital bitewing, periapical, and panoramic radiographs and intraoral photos, mounting images in Dentrix for the provider before the exam.
- Sterilize and process instruments per CDC and OSHA infection control protocols, running weekly biological spore tests on the autoclave with a 100 percent pass record.
- Take alginate impressions and pour study models for crowns and night guards, and place and adjust temporary crowns under the dentist's direction.
- Cut operatory turnover time from 12 minutes to 8 by reorganizing tray setups and restocking, lifting daily provider capacity without adding rooms.
- Supported chairside assisting and patient prep across a 4-operatory general practice using Eaglesoft for charting and scheduling.
- Educated patients on post-operative care and oral hygiene, and reviewed treatment plans and financial estimates at handoff to the front desk.
- Maintained inventory and reordered consumables, eliminating mid-day stockouts of gloves, anesthetic, and impression material.
Four-handed chairside assisting · Digital radiography (bitewing, periapical, panoramic) · Instrument sterilization and OSHA / CDC infection control · Alginate impressions and temporary crowns · Dentrix, Eaglesoft, and Open Dental · Patient prep, education, and post-op instructions · Tray setup, operatory turnover, and inventory
- Certified Dental Assistant (CDA), DANB
- Radiation Health and Safety (RHS), DANB
- Arizona Radiologic Proficiency Certificate (state radiography certification)
- Basic Life Support (BLS), American Heart Association