Joselyn Torres
Chicago,IL
Summary
Dedicated Dental Assistant with experience at Dental Clinic, skilled in digital X-ray proficiency and equipment sterilization. Successfully maintained a sterile environment, enhancing patient safety and care quality. Known for strong organizational skills and attention to detail, ensuring efficient treatment room setups and high-quality diagnostic imaging.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work History
Dental Assistant
Dental Clinic
Chicago, IL
06.2024 - 06.2024
- Cleaned and sanitized dental tools and equipment, straightened treatment rooms, and restocked supplies to prep for next patient and maintain health and safety practices.
- Maintained a clean and sterile work environment to prevent cross-contamination and infection.
- Sanitized trays, instruments, and surfaces for clean dental office setting and patient safety.
- Performed x-rays safely while adhering to radiation safety guidelines, ensuring high-quality diagnostic images for dentists'' evaluations.
- Prepared treatment areas for patient care, ensuring sterile and organized environment.
Dental Assistant
Dental Clinic
Chicago
08.2023 - 09.2023
- Provided chairside assistance during examinations, improving dentist efficiency and patient satisfaction.
- Prepared and arranged instruments, medications, and required materials for dental procedures.
- Successfully assisted dentist by performing four-handed dentistry and other chair-side duties.
- Sterilized rooms and prepped equipment and instruments for Number procedures daily.
- Performed general chair-side duties for general dentistry, endo procedures, and oral surgery.
- Assisted dentists, hygienists, and other personnel by handing appropriate tools and supplies needed for procedures.
- Prepared instruments and equipment for use in dental procedures, ensuring their availability when needed.
- Created dental impressions used for diagnostics, opposing models and study casts to make crowns, bridges, and other dental prosthetics.
- Prepared patient x-rays and images for dentist review.
- Took dental images following strict patient protection rules, applying lead aprons.
- Recorded patients' health histories, documented current symptoms, and pulled up records from prior visits for dentists to view and evaluate.
Education
Social Work
National Louis University
Chicago, IL2027
Skills
- Dental impressions
- Dental radiography
- Digital X-ray proficiency
- Equipment sterilization
- X-ray processing
- Treatment room setup
Languages
Spanish , English
Full Professional
Timeline
Dental Assistant
Dental Clinic
06.2024 - 06.2024
Dental Assistant
Dental Clinic
08.2023 - 09.2023
Social Work
National Louis University