Anthony Wagner
Tulsa,OK
Summary
Talented Dental Assistant/Military Veteran with 9 years of experience working with dental staff to treat patients. Skilled at working with people, taking dental X-rays, taking dental impressions, and assisting dental hygienists and dentists. Expert at creating a calm environment for all patients.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Dental Assistant
Veteran Affairs
12.2020 - 07.2023
- Prepared treatment rooms and restocked supplies to prepare for next patient and maintain health and safety practices
- Performed general chair-side duties for general dentistry, endodontics, periodontics, and prosthodontics
- Sanitized trays, instruments and surfaces for clean dental office setting and patient safety
- Maintained dental supply inventory by checking stock to determine inventory levels and placing and expediting orders for supplies
- Recorded patients' health histories, documented current symptoms and pulled up records from prior visits for dentists to view and evaluate
- Explained treatment procedures and instructed patients on home care guidelines
- Assisted dentists, hygienists and other personnel by handing appropriate tools and supplies needed for procedures
- Scheduled appointments for new and existing patients, factoring in provider availability and scheduling loads
- Prepared and arranged instruments, medications and required materials for dental procedures
- Created dental impressions used for diagnostics, opposing models and study casts to make crowns, bridges and other dental prosthetics
- Took comprehensive radiological images such as Panoramic, Bitewings, PA's, and CBCTs, allowing supervisory dental staff to spot cavities, tooth decay and areas needing treatment, while following strict patient protection rules
- Administered desensitizing agents by applying numbing gel to prepare patients for anesthetic injections.
Hospital Corpsman Third Class/Dental Assistant
U.S Navy
06.2019 - 10.2020
- Assist the dentist/specialist in chairside procedures such as composites, amalgams, crown preps, cad-cam scanning, oral surgery, root canals, taking impressions for retainers, night guards and crowns
- Packing cord during crown prep, place and remove rubber dam and/or isolite
- Pouring up dental study casts and fabricating retainers and night guards
- Capturing dental radiographs such as Bitewings, PA's, and Panoramic images
- Administer and record patients' blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and medical history
- Administer topical anesthetic, fabricate, place and remove temporary dental restorations and crowns, place and remove matrix bands
- Charting patient dental needs during Oral Diagnostic Exams and updating patient information in CDA (Corporate Dental Application) system
- Prepare instruments properly and timely for sterilization by SPD (Sterilization Processing Department) standards
- Managing patient appointments by scheduling appointments, confirming the day before a patients appointment and cancelling patient appointments
- Managing patient records by filing in order by social security number, and annual record reviews ensuring records are up to date
- Educate patients by giving Oral Hygiene Instructions and giving post-operative instructions
- Ensure operation of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements
- Maintaining patient confidentiality
- Set up and clean operatory and/or surgery suite for planned dental procedures and timely turnover, handles and passes instruments safely, accurately and efficiently.
Hospital Corpsman Third Class/Dental Assistant
U.S Navy
05.2018 - 05.2019
- Provided supragingival dental cleanings as a Prophylaxis Technician by utilizing the cavitron, handscaling, polishing, and flossing
- Assist the dentist in chairside procedures such as composites, amalgams, crown preps, cad-cam, scanning, outlining and milling, extractions, root canals, pulpectomies, pulpotomies, taking impressions for retainers, night guards and crowns
- Packing cord during crown prep, placing and removing rubber dam and/or isolite
- Pouring up dental study casts and fabricating retainers and night guards
- Provided Oral Hygiene Instructions before and after dental cleanings, post-surgery, and post-operative
- Administer and record patients' blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and medical history
- Capturing dental radiographs such as Bitewings, PA's, and Panoramic images
- Administer topical anesthetic, fabricate, place and remove temporary dental restorations and crowns, place and remove matrix bands
- Charting patient dental needs during Oral Diagnostic Exams and updating patient information in CDA (Corporate Dental Application) system
- Set up and clean operatory and/or surgery suite for planned dental procedures in a timely manner, handled and passed instruments safely, accurately and efficiently
- Prepare instruments properly and timely for sterilization by SPD (Sterilization Processing Department) standards
- Managing patient appointments by scheduling appointments, confirming the day before a patients appointment and cancelling patient appointments
- Managing patient records by filing in order by social security number, and annual record reviews ensuring records are up to date
- Ensure operation of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements
- Maintaining patient confidentiality.
Hospital Corpsman Third Class/Dental Assistant
U.S Navy
04.2015 - 04.2018
- Assist the dentist in chairside procedures such as composites, amalgams, crown preps, extractions, taking impressions for retainers, night guards and crowns
- Provided above the gumline dental cleanings as a Prophylaxis Technician by utilizing the cavitron, handscaling, polishing, flossing
- In charge of the Sterilizing Process Department, ensuring all instruments are cleaned, packaged, sterilized and stored according to infection control standards for patient use
- Packing cord during crown prep, placing and removing rubber dam and/or isolite, pouring up dental casts and fabricating retainers and night guards
- Provided Oral Hygiene Instructions before and after dental cleanings, post-surgery, and post-operative
- Administer topical anesthetic, fabricate, place and remove temporary dental restorations and crowns, place and remove matrix bands
- Administer and record patients' blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and medical history
- Capturing dental radiographs such as Bitewings, PA's, and Panoramic images
- Charting patient dental needs during Oral Diagnostic Exams and updating patient information in CDA (Corporate Dental Application) system
- Sets up and cleans operator and/or surgery suite for planned dental procedures in a timely turnover, handled and passed instruments safely, accurately and efficiently
- Maintain safe and cleaning work environment by complying with Infection Control Standards
- Managing patient appointments by scheduling appointments, confirming the day before a patients appointment and cancelling patient appointments
- Managing patient records by filing in order by social security number, and annual record reviews ensuring records are up to date
- Educate patients by giving Oral Hygiene Instructions and giving post-operative instructions
- Ensure operation of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements
- Maintaining patient confidentiality.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Dental Hygiene
Tulsa Community College
Tulsa, OK05.2025
High School Diploma -
Columbia Central High School
Columbia, TN05.2014
Skills
- Customer Service Representative
- Dental/Medical Terminology Proficient
- Microsoft Excel Proficient
- Detail-Oriented
- Outgoing personality
- Able to adapt in stressful environments
Certification
- Dental Assistant Completion Certificate from U.S. Navy
- Dental Assistant Permit from Oklahoma Board of Dentistry
- Expanded Functions: Radiation Protection and Safety, Coronal Polishing and Topical Fluoride, Placement of Pit and Fissure Sealants, and Assisting in the Administration of Nitrous Oxide
- BLS (Basic Life Support) Certified
- 2,000 Hour Dental Assistant Apprenticeship from the Department of Labor
Timeline
Dental Assistant
Veteran Affairs
12.2020 - 07.2023
Hospital Corpsman Third Class/Dental Assistant
U.S Navy
06.2019 - 10.2020
Hospital Corpsman Third Class/Dental Assistant
U.S Navy
05.2018 - 05.2019
Hospital Corpsman Third Class/Dental Assistant
U.S Navy
04.2015 - 04.2018
Associate of Applied Science - Dental Hygiene
Tulsa Community College
High School Diploma -
Columbia Central High School
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