Juanita Ragland
Muscle Shoals,AL
Summary
Dental professional prepared to provide high-quality patient care in dynamic dental environment. Adept in dental radiography, chairside assistance, and maintaining sterilization protocols. Reliable team player with focus on achieving results and adapting to changing needs.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Dental Assistant
Townsley Dental
Foley, AL
02.2025 - 10.2025
- Assisted dentist during dental procedures, ensuring patient comfort and safety
- Prepared treatment rooms for patient visits, sterilizing instruments and setting up necessary equipment
- Took and developed dental x-rays, ensuring high-quality images for accurate diagnosis
- Assisted dentists in various procedures, ensuring patient comfort and safety during treatments.
- Maintained accurate patient records and updated treatment plans using dental software systems.
- Educated patients on oral hygiene practices, improving overall patient care and compliance.
- Streamlined appointment scheduling, reducing patient wait times and improving clinic workflow.
- Trained new staff on office protocols, enhancing team efficiency and service quality.
- Developed infection control protocols that improved safety standards within the practice.
- Collaborated with dental team to implement new technologies, increasing procedural accuracy and efficiency.
- 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.
- Assisted dentists with complex procedures, ensuring optimal patient care and treatment outcomes.
- Assisted dentists, hygienists, and other personnel by handing appropriate tools and supplies needed for procedures.
- Created dental impressions used for diagnostics, opposing models and study casts to make crowns, bridges, and other dental prosthetics.
Accountant
CSS Solutions
Louisville, KY
11.2022 - 10.2024
- I manage vendors invoices, while making sure I debit what comes in and credit what goes out. While communicating with the buyers to make sure the invoices are correct. While maintaining a strong attention to detail.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance internal controls, minimizing risk of financial discrepancies.
- Handled day-to-day accounting processes to drive financial accuracy.
- Used advanced software to prepare documents, reports, and presentations.
Dental Assistant
Dupont Pediatric Dentistry
Louisville, KY
05.2019 - 11.2022
- Responsible for providing excellent patient care
- Coronal polishing in General Pediatrics, fluoride, and sealant applications.
- Setting up trays for treatment, taking x rays
- Charting condition of decay using Eagle soft to prepare for diagnosis and treatment by dentist.
- Sterilizing instruments, while following OSHA regulations
- Listing to the patients and being attentive to there needs
- Sanitized trays, instruments, and surfaces for clean dental office setting and patient safety.
- Assisted dentists in various procedures, ensuring patient comfort and safety during treatments.
Hygiene Assistant
Sparkle and Shine Family Dental
Louisville, KY
05.2021 - 11.2022
- Responsible for providing excellent patient care
- Coronal polishing in General Pediatrics, fluoride, and sealant applications.
- Setting up trays for treatment, taking x rays
- Charting condition of decay using Eagle soft to prepare for diagnosis and treatment by dentist.
- Sterilizing instruments, while following OSHA regulations
- Listing to the patients and being attentive to there needs
Merchandiser (Temporary Position)
Home Depot
Louisville, KY
05.2017 - 04.2019
- Promoted Products to significantly increase their sales
- Ensuring each area of the store was stocked, rotated, clean, and looking its best
- Making sure customers find everything they need, in the right place
- Putting together merchandising plans for specific stores
- Completing all paperwork as required
- Working closely with team to make sure all merchandise is organized
Frontend Supervisor
Restaurant Depot
Louisville, KY
08.2015 - 12.2017
- Providing training, encouragement, advice and feedback to employees/members
- Handled money that come in the warehouse
- Opening/ closing procedures
- Performs daily audits for refund merchandise
- Conduct job analysis and job evaluation, resulting in quality job specifications
- Trained and develops new employees on POS system and key sales tactic
- Scheduled for all front-end employees
- Assigned employee to specific duties to best meet the needs of the store
Education
Dental Certificate - Dental
Caris College
Jeffersonville, IN05-2019
Associate of Science - Associate
Jefferson Community And Technical College
Louisville, KY01-2018
Skills
- Eaglesoft
- Front Desk
- Typing
- Insurance Verification
- Exceptional communication skills
- HIPAA
- Infection Control Training
- Dentrix
- Chairside Assisting
- Dental Receptionist
- Phone etiquette
- Patient care
- Writing skills
- Computer skills
- Competitive attitude
- Dental Assisting
- Filing
- Pediatrics
- Sales
- Dental assisting
- Preventive health (patient care)
- Laboratory experience
- Communication skills
- Dental extractions
- Property management
- Leadership
- Quick Learner
- Works well with other
- Time management
- Digital X-ray proficiency
- Dental impressions
- Equipment sterilization
- Treatment room setup
- Dental radiography
Accomplishments
Optimized patient flow by reducing room turnover time, allowing the team to efficiently manage 75 to 100 pediatric appointments per day.
Certification
- Coronal Polish CertificateSeptember 2019 to Present
- X-Ray CertificationMay 2019 to Present
- Certified Dental Assistant
- Nitrous Oxide Certification
- EDDA Certification
- CPR Certification
- Certified Restorative Functions Dental Assistant (CRFDA)
- EFDA Certification
- Driver's License
- Radiology Certification
Languages
English
Timeline
Dental Assistant
Townsley Dental
02.2025 - 10.2025
Accountant
CSS Solutions
11.2022 - 10.2024
Hygiene Assistant
Sparkle and Shine Family Dental
05.2021 - 11.2022
Dental Assistant
Dupont Pediatric Dentistry
05.2019 - 11.2022
Merchandiser (Temporary Position)
Home Depot
05.2017 - 04.2019
Frontend Supervisor
Restaurant Depot
08.2015 - 12.2017
Dental Certificate - Dental
Caris College
Associate of Science - Associate
Jefferson Community And Technical College