Lead Dental Assistant
Aspen Dental
- Assisted diverse team of Dentists and Hygienists.
- Skilled at managing various responsibilities simultaneously in busy environments.
- Managed and structured daily schedules effectively.
- Followed protocol to sterilize instruments and operatory, preventing infection.
- Explained procedures to patients and ensured readiness for dental treatments.
- Experience with digital X-ray taking & care-stream panoramic system
- Ensured patient comfort throughout procedures.
- Performed X-rays prior to dentist's arrival and facilitated transition from temporary to permanent crowns.
- Creating temporary crown using blue bite impression and Luxatemp material including shaving and refining of the temporary crown to ensure proper fitment of margins – as well as temporary cementation and removal of excess cement
- Performed accurate Alginate impressions and detailed model trimming.
- Dental lab technician basic training; pouring alginate impressions, creating waxbites
- Chairside denture adjustments
- Placement of temporary denture reline material into patients healing dentures as needed as well as the removal of the material as time progresses
- Organization of Operatory’s, inventory, and procedure kits
- Dental assistant training of X-ray use of care-stream2200 and8200 systems
- Skilled in handling essential aspects of denture fabrication.
- Skilled at utilizing the 3-Shape Trios4 scanner for precise digital impressions.
- 3-Shape scanner use – Final impressions for crowns, bridges, or dentures (including implant supported) – basic status scans of patients mouth used for treatment simulation tools
- Dental office inventory ordering
- Implant part ordering – Straumann and Nobel Biocare
- Oral surgery experience
- Endodontic experience
- Implant placement surgery assistance as well as second stage implant surgery
- General dentistry procedure experience – Crown/bridge preparation, composite restoration, therapeutic pulpotomy, root canal, extractions, Crown/bridge inserts, denture inserts, implant support crown/bridge inserts, overdentures, invisalign
- DCI Dental chair vac line maintenance along with filter replacement
- (2+ year)
