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MARIA MARTINEZ

Royse City,TX

Summary

Registered Dental Assistant with 20+ years of experience in providing efficient and competent service in busy dental offices. Able to handle all necessary assistant duties without supervision. Provide superb customer service, ensuring patient retention and loyalty.

Dental professional with wealth of experience in patient care and clinic operations. Known for reliability, adaptability, and strong focus on teamwork and achieving clinical excellence. Proficient in dental assisting techniques, patient education, and inventory management.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Dental Assistant

Bayside Dental Rowlett
08.2020 - Current
  • Led dental team in delivering high-quality patient care and ensuring compliance with safety protocols.
  • Trained and mentored new staff, enhancing team efficiency and improving patient interaction skills.
  • Streamlined appointment scheduling processes, reducing patient wait times and increasing office productivity.
  • Coordinated inventory management for dental supplies, optimizing stock levels and minimizing waste.
  • Monitored sterilization processes to uphold hygiene standards, ensuring a safe environment for patients and staff.
  • Supported dentists during procedures by preparing necessary instruments and anticipating procedural needs effectively.
  • Managed inventory of dental supplies, minimizing waste while ensuring necessary resources were readily available for all procedures.
  • Explained treatment procedures and instructed patients on home care guidelines.
  • Measured and recorded vital statistics by taking patients' blood pressure, temperature, and pulse.
  • Maintained dental supply inventory by checking stock to determine inventory levels and placing and expediting orders for supplies.
  • Successfully assisted dentist by performing four-handed dentistry and other chair-side duties.
  • Took dental images following strict patient protection rules, applying lead aprons.
  • Assisted dentists in various procedures, ensuring accurate treatment delivery and high-quality patient care.
  • Assisted dentists by passing instruments, suctioning intraoral fluids, adding water, and mixing materials for fillings, [Type], casts and impressions.
  • Created dental impressions used for diagnostics, opposing models and study casts to make crowns, bridges, and other dental prosthetics.
  • Enhanced patient comfort by providing thorough explanations of dental procedures and answering questions with patience.
  • Prepared rooms for patient treatment by cleaning and sterilizing tools and equipment and setting up x-ray machines.
  • Performed general chair-side duties for general dentistry, endo procedures, and oral surgery.
  • Supported dentists during procedures, assisting dental fillings, permanent, and temporary crowns and sealants.

LEAD PEDIATRIC DENTAL ASSISTANT

My Kids Dentist & Orthodontics/Firewheel Modern Dentistry
01.2016 - 08.2020
  • Team Lead responsible for coordinating, managing and completing daily tasks with staff
  • Prepare essential instruments/supplies and assist the Pediatric Dentist in all restorative and surgical treatment procedures
  • Chairside assistant with pediatric conscious sedation and IV sedation cases
  • Trained to assist and perform prophylaxis, sealants and restorative tx on behaviorally challenged and special needs patients while providing them with individualized care and attention
  • Expose intraoral dental diagnostic x-rays in accordance with all guidelines to ensure patient safety

LEAD DENTAL ASSISTANT

East View Dental Care
01.2012 - 01.2016
  • Chairside assistant with all restorative and surgical procedures
  • Responsible for training new dental assistants
  • Accounted for office inventory and ordered supplies

DENTAL ASSISTANT

Celebrity Dental
01.2010 - 01.2012
  • Chairside assistant with general and pediatric dentistry

DENTAL ASSISTANT

Dossett Dental
01.2000 - 01.2010
  • Prepared patients for dental treatments; prepared treatment rooms for patients with appropriated instruments and equipment
  • Assisted doctor with all aspects of general dentistry including oral surgery, fixed and removable prosthodontics

Education

Diploma -

Rowlett High School
Rowlett, TX
01.2000

Skills

  • Bilingual (Spanish)
  • Team Leadership
  • Full Mouth Radiographs
  • Sealant Placement
  • Fabrication of Space Maintainers
  • Dentrix Software
  • Microsoft Office
  • Patient charting
  • Oral surgery assistance

Certification

  • Registered Dental Assistant, Texas Board of Dentistry, 2005
  • Nitrous Oxide
  • Basic Life Support/CPR

Awards

EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH 2019, Firewheel Modern Dentistry

Timeline

Lead Dental Assistant

Bayside Dental Rowlett
08.2020 - Current

LEAD PEDIATRIC DENTAL ASSISTANT

My Kids Dentist & Orthodontics/Firewheel Modern Dentistry
01.2016 - 08.2020

LEAD DENTAL ASSISTANT

East View Dental Care
01.2012 - 01.2016

DENTAL ASSISTANT

Celebrity Dental
01.2010 - 01.2012

DENTAL ASSISTANT

Dossett Dental
01.2000 - 01.2010

Diploma -

Rowlett High School

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