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Frances Irvine
Dentistry
Houston,TX
Overview
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Work History
Dental Assistant
Bryan P. Ritchey
Houston, TX
04.2019 - Current
- 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.
- Successfully assisted dentist by performing four-handed dentistry and other chair-side duties.
- Sterilized rooms and prepped equipment and instruments for Number procedures daily.
- 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 arranged instruments, medications and required materials for dental procedures.
- Prepared patient X-rays and images by Action for review by dentist.
- Created dental impressions used for diagnostics, opposing models and study casts to make crowns, bridges and other dental prosthetics.
- Prepared rooms for patient treatment by cleaning and sterilizing tools and equipment, Action and Action.
- Assisted dentists by passing instruments, suctioning intraoral fluids, adding water and mixing materials for fillings, Type, casts and impressions.
- Documented patient dental health information, medical history and vital signs for future reference.
- Prepared comprehensive radiological images, allowing supervisory dental staff to spot cavities, tooth decay and areas needing treatment.
- Helped dentists restore teeth by applying permanent and temporary fillings and crowns.
Skills
- Dentrix Proficiency
- Digital Radiographs
- Oral Surgery
- Implant Restoration
- Patterson EagleSoft
- High-Volume Environments
- Impression Taking
- Office Supplies and Inventory
- Periodontics and Endodontics
- Placing Crowns
- Instrument Tray Preparation
- Preliminary Impressions
- Advising and Educating Patients
- Medical Charting
- Treatment Room Preparation
- Surgical Extractions
- Temporary Restorations
- Restorative Procedures
- Taking X-Rays
- Dental Supply Inventory
Timeline
Dental Assistant
Bryan P. Ritchey
04.2019 - Current