Blessing Nimene

• Maintained dental supply inventory by checking stock to determine inventory levels and placing and expediting orders for supplies.
• Prepared patient x-rays and images for dentist review.
• Documented patient dental health information, medical history, and vital signs for future reference.
• Successfully assisted dentist by performing four-handed dentistry and other chair-side duties.
• Performed general chair-side duties for general dentistry, endo procedures, and oral surgery.
• Prepared and arranged instruments, medications, and required materials for dental procedures.
• Scheduled appointments for new and existing customers, factoring in provider availability and scheduling loads.
• Educated patients by giving oral hygiene, plaque control, and postoperative instructions.
• Created dental impressions used for diagnostics, opposing models and study casts to make crowns, bridges, and other dental prosthetics.
• Sterilized rooms and prepped equipment and instruments for Number procedures daily.
• Sanitized trays, instruments, and surfaces for clean dental office setting and patient safety.
• Cleaned and sanitized dental tools and equipment, straightened treatment rooms, and restocked supplies to prep for next patient and maintain health and safety practices.
• 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.
• Prepared and positioned patients for procedures, clipping dental napkins and placing patient safety devices.
• Entered patient data into computer system, adhering to strict privacy laws and maintaining high level of accuracy.
• Staged tray for procedures by arranging dental instruments and equipment.
• Prepared and sterilized instruments and materials for use by dentists.
• Prepared patient X-rays and images for review by dentist.
• Scheduled and confirmed patient appointments.
• Assisted in chair-side dental procedures by filling cavities and taking impressions.
• Educated patients on dental hygiene, pre-surgical instructions and post-surgical care.
• Exposed, developed and mounted dental x-rays.
• Monitored patient comfort and safety during dental procedures.
• Measured and recorded vital statistics by taking patients' blood pressure, temperature, and pulse.
• Assisted dentists by passing instruments, suctioning intraoral fluids, adding water, and mixing materials for fillings, casts and impressions.
• Assist Dentist in implants procedures and delivery.
• Have experience in doing initial Invisalign procedures in follow-up visit.
• First started out as a assistant on hygiene

Room set ups/break downs, Maintaining proper infection control practices. Sterilization of instruments and equipment meeting OSHA and state standards. Cleaning and changing dental traps as needed.

Reviewed and monitored patient medical history. Assisting in 4 handed dentistry chairside for amalgam fillings, composite fillings, extractions, crown preparations, crown delivery, denture delivery, dental impressions, temporary crown production, digital radiography and patient charting.