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Minh-Tam Aaron Le, DDS

Washington,DC

Summary

Passionate and caring dentist with 8+ years of clinical experience and committed to providing personalized patient care through high-quality service, communication, and excellent chairside manner. Always with a positive attitude, highly adaptive to changes, and learning new ways to deliver better patient care and services efficiently and accommodating with empathy when helping patients overcome dental fears by displaying patience and compassion to provide painless dentistry.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Part-Time Associate Dentist.

Healthy Smiles Dental
01.2022 - Current
  • Provide root canal treatments and help to restore teeth to normal functioning by performing core buildups, crown preparation, and surgical crown lengthening if necessary.
  • Provide Surgical extractions and maintain bone structures for implant placements.
  • Provide dental care for Pedo (children) patients of the office.

Associate General Dentist

Dahlgren Dental
06.2021 - 03.2025
  • Such a great honor to provide quality and gentle care for military serviceman and their family members from US Naval Dahlgren Base, enjoy seeing children of military servicemen
  • Main provider for root canal treatments and surgical procedures for the practice
  • Communicate one-on-one with patients during consultative appointments to explain the treatment plan and educate them on upcoming procedures
  • Educate patients and families about dental issues and proper oral care to prevent dental decay and disease
  • Administer care in emergency situations to treat dental diseases
  • Once emergency patients return to continuing care, create individualized treatment plans to maintain or restore the oral health of patients
  • Efficiently complete dental procedures for restorative work, i.e a single tooth core build-up, and crown preparation typically completed within 30-40 minutes

Senior Fulltime Associate

Complete Dental And Fast Braces
07.2016 - 03.2021
  • Provided dental treatments for patients of all ages from 1.5 year old to 101 year old
  • Continuously pushed my limit in endodontic disciplines with continue education to perform more complex root canal procedures including retreats of Molar RCT, and premolars.
  • Proficiency with implant placements, including anterior areas.
  • Proficiency with Implant restorations, including in anterior areas
  • Successfully handled complications from surgical procedures, referred , seldom from other associates, while maintaining patients' trust and retention for our office
  • Handled challenging situations, difficult patients, extremely nervous patients, both adult, and children, with ease and compassion
  • Communicated one-on-one with patients during consultative appointments to advocate treatment plans, gained patient trust for treatment acceptances
  • Bolstered patient retention by gaining trust from patients by offering patient-first and center dental care to meet each patient's individual needs through gentle and painless dentistry
  • Reached out to follow up with patients personally over the phone after major dental procedures such as surgical procedures, RCT's and extensive operative procedures. Those patients always have my mobile number for addressing any post-op complications after hours
  • Developed highly empathetic patient relationships and earned patients' trust for referrals
  • Achieved and consistently produce 1M+ per year, even during the pandemic year of 2020
  • Coached new and current clinical assistants on new dental materials and procedures to enhance patients' experience and increase treatment acceptances
  • Collaborated with staff ( front and back) and owner dentists to enhance patient care experiences with efficiency while maintaining patients' satisfaction for every visit
  • Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help and offered constructive advice to staff to help them reach their full potentials
  • Collaborated with specialists to plan and deliver dental treatments for complex cases

Resident-chief Resident

Hackensack Meridian Health Mountainside Medical Center
07.2015 - 06.2016
  • Teamed with other physicians, specialists, and healthcare providers to provide well-rounded care for complex cases
  • Conferred with specialists to obtain expertise on patient conditions and referred individuals in need of additional care
  • Performed dental related procedures and emergency dental care in hospital clinic and Operatory Room settings
  • Provide dental care, more than often, to patients with a complex medical health history

PEDODONTIC:

  • Performed pedodontic procedures in clinical and operating room (OR) settings under
  • Provide Nitrous sedation
  • Performed multiple extractions due to Extreme Early Carries
  • Pulpotomies with SSC placements
  • Extractions with Loop and Band placements
  • Restorative treatments: Resin fillings and amalgam fillings

ENDODONTIC:

  • Procedures performed:
  • RCTs’ of first, second molars, premolars and anterior teeth
  • Retreatment of anterior teeth
  • RCTs’ for teeth with existing crowns

ORAL SURGERY:

  • Performed Surgical Extractions, often alongside oral surgery residents, under Board Certified OS supervisions
  • Procedures performed:
  • Full mouth extractions with aveoloplasty
  • Impacted third molars (Maxillary and Mandibular)
  • Maxilary tuberosity reduction for complete denture placement
  • Maxilary exostosis reductions for immediate denture placements
  • Mandibular tori reductions for complete denture

PERIODONTIC:

  • Performed Periodontal Surgeries under supervision of board-certified periodontists.
  • Procedure performed:
  • Functional crown lengthening procedures
  • Pocket reductions with and without continuous sling suture
  • SRP with flaps with and without osseous contouring

PROSTHODONTIC:

  • Complete dentures (including immediate complete dentures), partial dentures, fixed partial dentures, under supervision of board-certified prosthodontists

HOSPITAL EMERGENCY

  • Dental emergency treatments including: oral surgery, TMJ dislocations, pedodontic dental trauma, endodontic treatments for after hours.

Head Waiter

Outback Steakhouse
08.2005 - 04.2015
  • Met and served different people from all aspect of life. Learned how to deal with people and served people with professionalism, respect, and care
  • Learned how to work effectively under pressure and fast paced environment
  • Mastered multitasking skills to delivery services with accuracy and efficiency
  • Trained newly hired employees and other head waiters
  • Coordinated gift card sales yearly; helped our store win the most sales in the Northern Virginia region

Education

Fellowship of Academy of General Dentistry - General Dentistry

American Academy of General Dentistry
Chicago, IL
01-2027

MBA - Healthcare MBA

George Washington University, The
Washington, DC
06-2029

No Degree - Mini Endodontic Residency

IDEA
Foster City, CA
03-2026

Some College (No Degree) - Excellence in Anterior Composite Restoration

Spear Education
Spear Education Campus, Scottsdale, AZ
09-2021

Implant Continuum.

Maryland University Dental School
Baltimore, MD

Comprehensive Periodontal Surgeries.

USC Dental School
City Of Los Angeles, CA
10-2018

Live Patient Implant Seminar

ITC Implant Institute
San Domigo, Dominican Republic
07-2018

Comprehensive Basic Implant Training

Hoissen Implant Company
Northern Virginia Campus
01-2018

Functional Occlusion – From TMJ To Smile Design

Dawson Institute
Chicago, IL
05-2017

Comprehensive Course in Endodontic

Next Level Endodontic
Philadelphia, PA
04-2017

Endodontic, Bootcamp.

Next Level Endodontic
Philadelphia, PA
04-2016

Oral Surgery

We Teach Extractions
Jamaica
02-2015

Doctor of Dental Surgeries - Dentistry

Howard University
Washington, DC
05-2015

Bachelor of Science - Biology

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
05-2009

Skills

  • Patient engagement interviewing
  • Compassionate gentle dental care
  • Root canal treatment
  • Dental Surgeries
  • Endodontics ( Pedo and adult patients)
  • Effective Pain Management
  • Emergency dental care
  • Team player
  • Implant Dentistry
  • Fixed and Removable Prosthodontics
  • Emergency Dental Care
  • Coaching and mentoring

Accomplishments

  • Nominated as Resident of the month, GPR program.
  • Dean's list, Howard University College of Dentistry.
  • Recipient, Howard University Dental Net Tuition Scholarship base on academic achievement.
  • Howard University Board of Trustee Scholarship based on academic achievement
  • Winner of Outback Steakhouse restaurant "Employee of the year" award.

Timeline

Part-Time Associate Dentist.

Healthy Smiles Dental
01.2022 - Current

Associate General Dentist

Dahlgren Dental
06.2021 - 03.2025

Senior Fulltime Associate

Complete Dental And Fast Braces
07.2016 - 03.2021

Resident-chief Resident

Hackensack Meridian Health Mountainside Medical Center
07.2015 - 06.2016

Head Waiter

Outback Steakhouse
08.2005 - 04.2015

Fellowship of Academy of General Dentistry - General Dentistry

American Academy of General Dentistry

MBA - Healthcare MBA

George Washington University, The

No Degree - Mini Endodontic Residency

IDEA

Some College (No Degree) - Excellence in Anterior Composite Restoration

Spear Education

Implant Continuum.

Maryland University Dental School

Comprehensive Periodontal Surgeries.

USC Dental School

Live Patient Implant Seminar

ITC Implant Institute

Comprehensive Basic Implant Training

Hoissen Implant Company

Functional Occlusion – From TMJ To Smile Design

Dawson Institute

Comprehensive Course in Endodontic

Next Level Endodontic

Endodontic, Bootcamp.

Next Level Endodontic

Oral Surgery

We Teach Extractions

Doctor of Dental Surgeries - Dentistry

Howard University

Bachelor of Science - Biology

Virginia Commonwealth University