Maria Almaraz
Long Beach,CA
Summary
Highly motivated and detail oriented dental assistant with 9 years of experience efficiently handling administrative tasks and assisting chairside with dental procedures. Expert in assisting with 4-handed dentistry, setting up exam rooms, taking dental radiographs, and preparing materials for impressions or restorations. Team-focused with commitment to providing exceptional care to all patients.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Dental Assistant
Dr. Mark Avetoom
04.2019 - Current
- Performed general chair-side duties for general dentistry, endo procedures, implant impressions, and oral surgery.
- Maintained detailed patient records, contributing to better-informed treatment decisions and continuity of care.
- Monitored patient comfort and safety during dental procedures.
- Assisted dentist by passing instruments, suctioning intraoral fluids, adding water, and mixing materials for temporary fillings, crowns, permanent fillings , and impressions.
- Developed strong relationships with patients, fostering a welcoming environment that encouraged return visits.
- Took dental radiographs following strict patient protection rules, applying lead aprons.
- Prepared and positioned patients for procedures, clipping dental napkins and placing patient safety devices.
- Managed inventory of dental supplies, minimizing waste while ensuring necessary resources were readily available for all procedures.
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Gained strong leadership skills by managing projects from start to finish.
- Paid attention to detail while completing assignments.
- Created dental impressions used for diagnostics, opposing models and study casts to make crowns, bridges, and other dental prosthetics.
Scheduling and Billing Coordinator/Surgical Dental Assistant
Center For Pediatric Surgery Center
01.2017 - 03.2019
- Developed and maintained billing procedures to make timely payments.
- Researched and resolved billing discrepancies to enable accurate billing.
- Verify Insurance and send dental and medical claims
- Calculated bills for services rendered and collected and processed patient, anesthesiologist payments.
- Scheduled patient surgeries,
- Greet welcome and make parents comfortable for Iv sedation surgeries
- Processed x-rays, assisted anesthesiologist along with pediatric dentists.
Front Desk Receptionist Intern/Certified Dental Assistant
Center For Pediatric Dentistry
06.2015 - 03.2019
- Assisting in oral sedation, treatment, preforming coronal polishing, taking dental x-rays.
- Sterilizing instruments.
- Helping front office when needed by answering high volume phone calls, scheduling appointments, making copies, sending faxes, handling all outgoing correspondence, filing charts.
- Sat in on meetings to take notes, help on production goals , implementing new ideas to the office.
- Assisting orthodontic assistants while placing brackets, lingual retainers, invisalign buttons, itero scans
- Helping office manager send medical claims
Education
High School Diploma -
California High School
Whittier, CA06.2016
Infection Control, Radiation Safety, CPR - Dental Assisting
Tri-Cities ROP
Whittier, CA05.2016
Skills
- 9 years of Dental Assisting Experience
- Patient Care
- Digital X-ray expertise
- Impression Taking
- Treatment room setup
- Proficient in dentrix and XDR
- Dental Materials Knowledge
- CPR
- Advising and Educating Patients
- Great Communication Skills
- Fluent in English and Spanish
- Ability to Handle Emergency Situations
- Critical Thinking
- Infection Control
- Professionalism
- Bubbly and Positive Attitude
References
Dr. Lin Rajoub (310) 483-3937
Cheryl Perkins (949) 370-2701
More available upon request
Timeline
Lead Dental Assistant
Dr. Mark Avetoom
04.2019 - Current
Scheduling and Billing Coordinator/Surgical Dental Assistant
Center For Pediatric Surgery Center
01.2017 - 03.2019
Front Desk Receptionist Intern/Certified Dental Assistant
Center For Pediatric Dentistry
06.2015 - 03.2019
High School Diploma -
California High School
Infection Control, Radiation Safety, CPR - Dental Assisting
Tri-Cities ROP
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