Denise Murphy

• Cleaned and sanitized dental tools and equipment, straightened treatment rooms and restocked supplies to prep for next patient and maintain health and safety practices.
• Performed general chair-side duties for general dentistry, endo procedures and oral surgery.
• 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.
• Order supplies for 2 offices and keep them both stocked
• Successfully assisted dentist by performing four-handed dentistry and other chair-side duties.
• get crown seats ready for Doctor to just check and cement
• make temporary crowns
• Sterilized rooms and prepped equipment and instruments for daily procedures
• Recorded patients' health histories, documented current symptoms and pulled up records from prior visits for dentists to view and evaluate.
• familiar with Dentrix and Easy Dental
• also Dexis for xrays/ and using a nomad
• taking and developing panoramic films
• taking FMX
• 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.
• creating treatment plans
• diagnosing limited exams
• Scheduled appointments for new and existing customers, factoring in provider availability and scheduling loads.
• Created dental impressions used for diagnostics, opposing models and study casts to make crowns, bridges and other dental prosthetics.
• Using Cerec Primescan- scanning , fabricating and delivering same day crowns
• staining and glazing crowns
• Verified proper operation of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance, troubleshooting malfunctions and calling for repairs.
• rubber dam placement for isolation
• measure canals for Endo
• tofflemire and Triodent Matrix/ wedge placement
• Taking and pouring dental impressions
• adding wax to RPD cast metal framework
• wax rims- proper contours, marking midlines and smile lines, making sure vertical dimension is correct. choosing moulds and shades for the try in
• intra oral pics and dental photography
• delivering bite splints, dentures and RPD's
• keeping the workflow with multiple ops running simultaneously
• training assistants
• compassion and patient care is most important
• very neat and organizedmakes the workflow much faster and more efficient
• CPR certified

all the same responsibilities as listed above.

I was Dr Woodall's assistant for 16 years. He retired due to health issues. The Isbell's bought out his practice and adopted me.

helped her move her practice from Guntersville to Huntsville. became too far to drive daily so I sought out a job closer to home after a year .