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Alyssa Lambert

Ogden,UT

Summary

Experienced in front office management, patient care, and providing support during dental procedures. Ensures smooth and calm operations of the clinic by implementing effective sterilization and infection control practices. Proficient in dental software and radiography, enhancing patient care quality and improving clinic efficiency.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Dental Assistant/ Front Desk

A Great Smile Dental
09.2018 - 07.2024
  • Front Office Experience from October 2021- July 2024

- Welcoming patients when they walk through the door

- Checked patients in and out of each appointment, scheduling their next appointments.

- Going over patients daily treatment plans, having them sign for consent and collecting co-pays.

- Answering phone calls and assisting patients over the phone.

- Calling each patient to remind them of their upcoming appointments.

- Scanning in patients paperwork, consent forms and daily treatment plans.

- Calling insurance companies to check on unpaid claims, while writing letters to the insurance companies and sending in needed information on claims.

  • Welcoming patients- seating them in operatories for dental treatments and or exams, going over their treatment for the day, answering any questions and/or addressing any concerns the patient might have, comforting patients when needed, taking patient's vitals.
  • Scanning patients with Itero scanner.
  • Placing Invisalign attachments, walking patient through the beginning process of Invisalign, while assisting the dentist during each Invisalign appointment.
  • Assisting the dentist with procedures such as, crown and bridge preps, resin fillings, partials and dentures, oral surgery, oral exams, seating of crown and bridges and root canals; suctioning and passing of instruments.
  • Going over post-operative instructions with patients after each procedure.
  • Setting up and breaking down operatories, disinfecting entire operatory room after each patient, setting up all barriers, setting up dental instruments and materials that will be needed for each procedure.
  • Stocking each operatory with new materials when they get low.
  • Sterilizing instruments and maintaining OSHA requirements through out the office.
  • Taking dental radiographs.
  • Taking alginate impressions and impressions for temporary crowns and bridges, fabricating temporary crowns and bridges, cementing temporaries, pouring up alginate impressions and trimming models, packing cord for crown preps, removal of temporary crowns.
  • Cleaning patients teeth ages 12 and under, placing sealants, applying fluoride, sizing and coronal polish of all ages.
  • Writing patient's chart notes.
  • Making adjustments to partials and dentures, also helped assist with the dentist and lab techs for each step in making of dentures and partials.
  • Checked in cases from all dental labs.

Dental Assistant

Just Smiles Dental
03.2016 - 06.2018
  • Welcoming patients- seating them in operatories for dental treatments and or exams, going over their treatment for the day, answering any questions and/or addressing any concerns the patient might have, comforting patients when needed, taking patient's vitals
  • Assisting the dentist with procedures such as, crown and bridge preps, resin fillings, partials and dentures, oral surgery, oral exams, seating of crown and bridges and root canals; suctioning and passing of instruments
  • Going over post-operative instructions with patients after each procedure
  • Setting up and breaking down operatories, disinfecting entire operatory room after each patient, setting up all barriers, setting up dental instruments and materials that will be needed for each procedure
  • Stocking each operatory with new materials when they get low
  • Sterilizing instruments and maintaining OSHA requirements threw out the office
  • Taking dental radiographs
  • Taking alginate impressions and impressions for temporary crowns and bridges, fabricating temporary crowns and bridges, cementing temporaries, pouring up alginate impressions and trimming models, packing cord for crown preps, removal of temporary crowns
  • Cleaning patients teeth ages 12 and under, placing sealants, applying fluoride, sizing and coronal polish of all ages
  • Writing patient's chart notes, scheduling patient's appointments, making recall and reminder phone calls of appointments
  • Making adjustments to partials and dentures, also helped assist with the dentist and lab techs for each step in making of dentures and partials
  • Assisted with taking patients to out patient hospitals for big treatments such as full mouth extractions, treatment on small kids and also special needs patients
  • Checked in cases from all dental labs
  • Went over patients treatment plans

Dental Assistant

Southridge Dental
04.2012 - 07.2014
  • Setting up and taking down operatories, disinfecting entire operatory room after each patient, setting up all barriers, setting out dental instruments and materials that will be needed for that procedure
  • Stocking each operatory with new materials when they get low
  • Welcoming patients, seating patients in operatory for dental treatment, go over their treatment for the day, go over any questions or concerns the patient might have, comforting patients when needed, take patient's blood pressure and pulse
  • Assisting the dentist with procedures such as, crown and bridge preps, amalgam fillings, resin fillings, implants, partials and dentures, oral surgery, oral exams, seating of crown and bridges and root canals; suctioning and passing of instruments
  • Sterilizing instruments and maintaining OSHA requirements threw out the office
  • Taking and developing dental radiographs
  • Taking alginate impressions and impressions for temporary crowns and bridges, fabricating temporary crowns and bridges, temporary cementing temporaries, pouring up alginate impressions and trimming models, packing cord for crown preps, removal of temporary crowns
  • Cleaning patients teeth ages 6 and under, placing sealants, applying fluoride, sizing and cementing stainless steel crowns and coronal polish of all ages
  • Writing in patient's chart notes and scheduling patient's future appointments, making recall and reminder phone calls of appointments
  • Going over post-operative instructions with patients after each procedure
  • Making adjustments to partials and dentures

Intern

Southridge Dental
02.2012 - 04.2012

In office, hands on training after schooling

Dental Lab Technician

Sierra Dental Ceramics
07.2005 - 08.2010
  • Produced all stone work, recording all cases that have come into the lab, disinfecting the impressions and bite registrations, pouring and trimming up model work
  • Organizing and cleaning up the lab
  • Maintaining equipment and sending them out for repairs and or reordering them when disabled
  • Ordering supplies, keeping a log of supplies and reordering when needed more of certain items
  • Billing, producing client statements for the finished cases returning to the dental offices
  • Picking up and delivering cases to and from dental offices and the dental lab

Education

High School Diploma -

Palo Verde High School
Las Vegas, NV
06.2008

Dental Assisting Certification - Dental Assisting

Pima Medical Institute
Las Vegas
07.2012

Certification

  • CPR/AED Certification
  • OSHA Certified
  • Dental Radiography Certified

Timeline

Dental Assistant/ Front Desk

A Great Smile Dental
09.2018 - 07.2024

Dental Assistant

Just Smiles Dental
03.2016 - 06.2018

Dental Assistant

Southridge Dental
04.2012 - 07.2014

Intern

Southridge Dental
02.2012 - 04.2012

Dental Lab Technician

Sierra Dental Ceramics
07.2005 - 08.2010

High School Diploma -

Palo Verde High School

Dental Assisting Certification - Dental Assisting

Pima Medical Institute
Alyssa Lambert