Dental Assistant
Shipinn
Cuba
06.2020 - 2023
- Assisted dentists during procedures to ensure patient comfort and efficiency.
- Prepared examination rooms with necessary tools and sterilized instruments effectively.
- Educated patients on oral hygiene practices and post-treatment care instructions.
- Provided chair-side assistance during dental procedures, including passing instruments to the dentist and holding suction devices.
- Sanitized equipment, cleaned treatment rooms and restocked supplies after each patient's treatment to maintain cleanliness and prepare for next patient.
- Sterilized instruments according to established guidelines and protocols.
- Took digital X-rays of teeth using radiographic equipment.
- Maintained a neat, clean and organized environment throughout the office.
- Took bitewing, periapical, panoramic and occlusal X-rays and prepared for dentists to review.
- Performed administrative duties such as scheduling appointments, answering telephones and updating patient records.
- Assisted in laboratory procedures such as mixing impression materials or pouring casts from impressions taken by dentists.
- Prepared dental materials such as amalgam, composite resin, impression material and cements for use by the dentist.
- Documented patient records with procedures performed and added notes taken to charts.
- Took preliminary impressions of patient teeth to prepare for custom impressions and fabrication of permanent dental work.
- Followed dentists' directions for giving patients desensitizing agents to prepare for anesthetic administration.
- Ensured compliance with infection control policies and procedures.