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Lauren Key

Georgetown,TX

Summary

Reliable Dental Assistant with 13 years of experience efficiently handling administrative tasks and assisting chairside with dental procedures. Expert in assisting with 4-hand procedures, setting up exam rooms, taking dental radiographs, Setting up and preparing materials for impressions or restorations. Team-focused with commitment to providing exceptional care to all patients.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Registered Dental Assistant

Balcones Dental
02.2023 - Current
  • Took dental images following strict patient protection rules, applying lead aprons.
  • Educated patients on dental hygiene, pre-surgical instructions and post-surgical care.
  • Prepared rooms for patient treatment by cleaning and sterilizing tools and equipment and setting up x-ray machines.
  • Assisted dentists by passing instruments, suctioning intraoral fluids, adding water, and mixing materials for fillings, [Type], casts and impressions.
  • Maintained dental supply inventory by checking stock to determine inventory levels and placing and expediting orders for supplies.
  • Scheduled appointments, prepared bills and received payment for dental services by completing insurance forms, verifying insurance information, and maintaining records.
  • Created dental impressions used for diagnostics, opposing models and study casts to make crowns, bridges, and other dental prosthetics.

Lead Registered Dental Assistant

Austin Dental Cares
02.2022 - 02.2023
  • Took dental images following strict patient protection rules, applying lead aprons.
  • Educated patients on dental hygiene, pre-surgical instructions and post-surgical care.
  • Prepared rooms for patient treatment by cleaning and sterilizing tools and equipment and setting up x-ray machines.
  • Assisted dentists by passing instruments, suctioning intraoral fluids, adding water, and mixing materials for fillings, [Type], casts and impressions.
  • Maintained dental supply inventory by checking stock to determine inventory levels and placing and expediting orders for supplies.
  • Scheduled appointments, prepared bills and received payment for dental services by completing insurance forms, verifying insurance information, and maintaining records.

Lead Registered Dental Assistant

Brush 32 Dental
11.2020 - 01.2022
  • Educated patients on dental hygiene, pre-surgical instructions and post-surgical care.
  • Took dental images following strict patient protection rules, applying lead aprons.
  • Prepared rooms for patient treatment by cleaning and sterilizing tools and equipment and setting up x-ray machines.
  • Assisted dentists by passing instruments, suctioning intraoral fluids, adding water, and mixing materials for fillings, [Type], casts and impressions.
  • Maintained dental supply inventory by checking stock to determine inventory levels and placing and expediting orders for supplies.
  • Scheduled appointments, prepared bills and received payment for dental services by completing insurance forms, verifying insurance information, and maintaining records.
  • Designed dental report card to explain patient dental health status and treatment plans.

Registered Dental Assistant

Advanced Dental Care Of Hutto
01.2020 - 02.2021
  • Chairside assistant with dentist in several procedures such as Implant crowns, surgical oral surgeries, root canals, crown, bridges, and fillings.
  • Lead inventory with Implant direct, Patterson, Henry Schien, Ultra Dent, and Burkhart.
  • Cerec in house crown imaging experience and inhouse crowns.
  • Front desk making appointments, verifying insurance, and collecting payments with Dentrix software.
  • Impressions for night guards and clear removable retainers.
  • Bonding Invisalign attachments and permanent upper & lower retainers.

Orthodontic Dental Assistant

Smile Doctors Braces
01.2018 - 03.2019
  • Assisted patients during short orthodontics adjustments. Can bend wires for Orthodontists if a tooth needs to be stepped out, down, and up by marking wire and using step pliers. Can have a proposal ready for what is next in treatment ready for the orthodontist.
  • Worked with several wires such as nickel titanium, heat activate, stainless steels, and TMA.
  • Elastic wear for CL2, CL3, triangles, posterior/anterior boxes, and X bite.
  • Took beginning, progress, and final records. Panoramic and Cephalometric x-rays.
  • Full bonding starts phase l & phase ll. Bracket systems included; 018 twins, Daemon, CMX daemon, and clear brackets.
  • I Tero scanner to scan for appliances such as; upper/lower expanders, tongue thrust, herbst, and Hawley wrap with springs attached to make minor alignment, lingual holding arch.
  • Deboned braces by removing all brackets, cleaning glue and polishing teeth. Bond upper & lower permanent retainers. Took alginate impressions, poured up in fast setting stone to make upper and lower excess retainers.
  • Scanned for invisalign, bonded invisalign attachments, clinchecks using invisalign website.
  • Scheduled appointments using Cloud 9 software.

Education

No Degree - Dental Assisting

Allied Health Careers
Austin, TX
02.2010

High School Diploma -

Midway High School
Waco, TX
05.2009

Skills

  • Patient Counseling
  • Dental Staff Assistance
  • Dental Equipment
  • Oral Surgery
  • Nitrous Oxide

Certification

  • RDA - Registered Dental Assistant
  • Nitrous oxide

Timeline

Lead Registered Dental Assistant

Balcones Dental
02.2023 - Current

Lead Registered Dental Assistant

Austin Dental Cares
02.2022 - 02.2023

Lead Registered Dental Assistant

Brush 32 Dental
11.2020 - 01.2022

Registered Dental Assistant

Advanced Dental Care Of Hutto
01.2020 - 02.2021

Orthodontic Dental Assistant

Smile Doctors Braces
01.2018 - 03.2019

No Degree - Dental Assisting

Allied Health Careers

High School Diploma -

Midway High School
  • RDA - Registered Dental Assistant
  • Nitrous oxide
Lauren Key