Le'Shecka Rawls
Columbia,MS
Summary
Skilled Dental Assistant with experience and training necessary to assist with various dental procedures. Hands-on training in dental radiography, chairside assisting and front office administrative duties. Quick learner and successful in building relationships with coworkers and patients.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Certified Dental Assistant/Business Assistant
Turtle Creek Dental Care
02.2020 - Current
- Customer service such as answering phones,making appointments, verifying insurance, taking payments, doing end of day and making bank deposits.
- Prepared comprehensive radiological images, allowing supervisory dental staff to spot cavities, tooth decay and areas needing treatment.
- Prepared rooms for patient treatment by cleaning and sterilizing tools and equipment.
- Administered desensitizing agents by applying numbing gel to prepare patients for anesthetic injections.
- Staged tray for procedures by arranging dental instruments and equipment.
- Assisted dentists by passing instruments, suctioning intraoral fluids, adding water and mixing materials for fillings, casts and impressions. Assist with extractions, endo procedures,digital scans, complete dentures,partials and implants, while following proper infection control procedures.
Lab Technician/Dental Assistant
Affordable Dentures & Implants
11.2019 - 02.2020
- Assisted chairside,poured models and processed dentures.
- Read prescriptions or specifications and examined models or impressions to determine design of dental products to be constructed.
- Removed excess metal or porcelain and polished surfaces of prostheses or frameworks using polishing machines.
- Completed detailed models of patients' mouths to create accurate devices.
Dental Assistant
Hattiesburg Community Dental Center
01.2017 - 10.2019
- 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.
Education
Associate of Applied Science -
Pearl River Community College
Hattiesburg, MS07.2016
High School Diploma -
Tylertown High School
Tylertown, MS05.2000
Skills
- DANB Certified Assistant
- DANB Radiology Certified
- DANB Infection Control Certified
- BLS CPR Certified
- Patient Management
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Certified Dental Assistant/Business Assistant
Turtle Creek Dental Care
02.2020 - Current
Lab Technician/Dental Assistant
Affordable Dentures & Implants
11.2019 - 02.2020
Dental Assistant
Hattiesburg Community Dental Center
01.2017 - 10.2019
Associate of Applied Science -
Pearl River Community College
High School Diploma -
Tylertown High School