Casey Wedge
Summary
Dental professional committed to delivering top-notch oral care and patient education. Skilled in performing detailed dental cleanings and fostering strong patient relationships. Known for collaborative teamwork and adaptability to changing clinical needs.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Dental Hygienist
Beisiegel Orthodontics
01.2013 - Current
- Duties include providing intensive oral hygiene education to individuals ranging in age 6 up to age 75 both with and without orthodontic appliances
- Bracketing patients who are starting new orthodontic treatment, untying arch wires, inserting new arch wires, among many other duties necessary for patients to have successful orthodontics treatment with braces
- Trained in Invisalign application from scanning the oral dentition to delivering the appliances
- Taking patient records including all necessary x-rays, study models, alginate impressions, and digital impressions
- Removing orthodontic appliances including expanders, Invisalign appliances and brackets
- Duties are not limited to what is listed here, there are many other orthodontic practices that are provided
- Customer service and working with the public are an everyday and major part of this full-time position
Para-Educator
Mt. Abraham Union High School
08.2010 - 06.2011
- Provided individual support for a caseload of 10 students during their daily educational activities
- Attended meetings and on a weekly basis with case managers and teachers to discuss student progress and to check-in about their educational status
Custodian
06.2009 - 08.2010
- Duties during the summer included cleaning the high school from ceiling to floor
- Everything from lights to furniture, to stripping the floors and laying down new coats of wax
- Duties also included painting classroom and hallway walls and painting traffic lines in parking lots and along roadway coming in to the high school
- During the regular school year, duties included cleaning a designated area each night
- The area consisted of 20 classrooms to be dust=mopped and damp-mopped and all tables wiped down
- School-year shift was 3:00 pm to 11:30 pm plus one Saturday a month
Product Development Information Officer
Autumn Harp Inc.
06.2007 - 03.2009
- Duties included proofing artwork for current customers, creating specification sheets for the production lines, data entry, photography of materials/components, and importing documents into the computer
- Worked with a wide variety of computer programs, had on-going communication with other departments within the company, current customers, and attended weekly project update meetings
Education
Associates Degree of Science - Dental Hygiene
Vermont Technical College
05.2013
Bachelor's Degree of Science - Sports Medicine, Exercise Science, Sports Administration, Coaching
Castleton State College
05.2006
High School Diploma -
Mt. Abraham Union High School
06.1999
Skills
- Complete patient prophylaxis
- Scaling
- De-plaquing
- Periodontal debridement
- Taking radiographs
- Interpretation of films
- Digital sensors
- Phosphor plates
- Patient education
- Administration of local anesthesia
- Periodontal charting
- Coronal polishing
- Air-powder polishing
- Ultrasonic scaling
- Patient charting
- Patient documentation
- Data collection
- Intra-oral cancer screenings
- Extra-oral cancer screenings
- Blood pressure screening
- Infection control techniques
- Sterilization of instruments
- Patterson EagleSoft Software
- Confidentiality assurance
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Works
- Computer software proficiency
- Office equipment proficiency
- Typing speed 100 words per minute
Licensurecertifications
- Current certification in CPR, AED, and Basic Life Support
- State of Vermont Registered Dental Hygienist Licensure – 08/01/13
- Current State of Vermont Radiology certification – Spring 2012
- Local anesthesia endorsement on Vermont Licensure – 08/01/13
Professionalreferences
- Leslie Hills, RDH Associate Professor of Dental Hygiene, Vermont Technical College, 301 Lawrence Place, Williston, VT, 05495, (802) 879-5965
- Andy Kepes, Principal, Mt. Abraham Union High School, 220 Airport Drive, Bristol, VT, 05443, (802) 453-2333 ext. 1063
- Melissa Starr, Special Education Coordinator, Mt. Abraham Union High School, 220 Airport Drive, Bristol, VT, 05443, (802) 453-2333 ext. 2089
Certification
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) - American Heart Association.
- Orthodontic Assistant Permit - Dental Assisting National Board, Inc.
Timeline
Registered Dental Hygienist
Beisiegel Orthodontics
01.2013 - Current
Para-Educator
Mt. Abraham Union High School
08.2010 - 06.2011
Custodian
06.2009 - 08.2010
Product Development Information Officer
Autumn Harp Inc.
06.2007 - 03.2009
Bachelor's Degree of Science - Sports Medicine, Exercise Science, Sports Administration, Coaching
Castleton State College
High School Diploma -
Mt. Abraham Union High School
Associates Degree of Science - Dental Hygiene
Vermont Technical College
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