Diana Hernandez
Orland Park,IL
Summary
To obtain a position where my skill sets and experience can be fully utilized while challenging myself with self growth.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Expanded Functions Dental Assistant
Gorski Dental
Orland Park, IL
06.2024 - Current
- Increased efficiency in the dental office by assisting with chairside duties such as taking impressions and fabricating temporary crowns.
- Assisted in coronal polishing.
- Assisted dentists in complex procedures, ensuring efficient and high-quality treatment outcomes.
- Played key role in emergency dental care by quickly responding to urgent patient needs and assisting in providing immediate treatment.
- Helped dentists restore teeth by applying permanent and temporary fillings and crowns.
- Assisted in chair-side dental procedures by filling cavities and taking impressions.
- Created dental impressions used for diagnostics, opposing models and study casts to make crowns, bridges, and other dental prosthetics.
Lead Dental Assistant
Artistic Dentistry
Homer Glen, IL
06.2018 - 05.2024
- Composites/crown preps
- Digital exrays/ pano/ FMX/ CT scans/ scanning / Itero/ Planmeca/ VaTech/ Carestream
- Impressions/pouring models
- Temporaries
- Root canals
- Extractions, bone grafts
- Implant placing. Single units and full mouth restorations. All on four. Knowledge in implant systems. Nobel Bio, BioHorizons/ Strauman/ Neodent/Zimmer.
- Systems used/ Eaglesoft/ Dentrix/ Open Dental/ Dentrix Ascend
- Coronal polishing.
- Track of lab cases, speaking to technicians answering technical questions.
- Cementations of crowns. Delivering screw retained implant crowns. Removing healing abutments, placing abutments for cementation over abutment.
- Cross trained front desk. Treatment planning, claims, insurance benefits. Taking payments.
- Managing schedule and dental assistants.
Head Perio surgical assistant
Orland Park Dental Specialists
Orland Park, IL
09.2015 - 06.2017
- I was head Perio assistant in a very fast paced specialist office.
Dr. Reggie Thurston D.D.S. Dental Assistant
Ora Dental Studio
Chicago, IL
07.2012 - 08.2015
Dental Assistant
Michael E. Kirsch D.D.S and Mike Kirsch Jr. D.D.S
Orland Park, IL
07.2010 - 04.2012
(Riverside) Dental Assistant
Jeri Coffey D.D.S
Riverside, IL
10.2007 - 06.2010
Skills
- CAD
- Inventory
- General dentistry
- Dental
- Botox Experience
- Front desk
- OR experience
- CPR
- HIPAA
- Dental Receptionist
- Dentrix
- Periodontics
- Dental office experience
- Eaglesoft
- Chairside Assisting
- Receptionist
- Insurance Verification
- Team management
- Scheduling
- Word
- Laboratory Experience
- Anatomy knowledge
- Dental Assistant
- Office management
- Infection control
- Sterilization
- Medical Imaging
- Endodontics
- Laboratory experience
- Oral Surgery
- Office Management
Certification
- Coronal Polish Certificate
- CPR certified/Coronal Polishing
Languages
Spanish - Fluent
Timeline
Expanded Functions Dental Assistant
Gorski Dental
06.2024 - Current
Lead Dental Assistant
Artistic Dentistry
06.2018 - 05.2024
Head Perio surgical assistant
Orland Park Dental Specialists
09.2015 - 06.2017
Dr. Reggie Thurston D.D.S. Dental Assistant
Ora Dental Studio
07.2012 - 08.2015
Dental Assistant
Michael E. Kirsch D.D.S and Mike Kirsch Jr. D.D.S
07.2010 - 04.2012
(Riverside) Dental Assistant
Jeri Coffey D.D.S
10.2007 - 06.2010