Monique Shaw
Willow Grove,USA
Summary
A dedicated and experienced Dental Oral Surgery Assistant with a strong focus on patient care, proficient in preparing patients for complex oral surgical procedures, assisting the surgeon during surgery, and maintaining a sterile operating environment, committed to providing a comfortable and supportive experience for patients throughout their treatment journey.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Surgical Dental Assistant
Jefferson Maxillofacial Oral Surgery
07.2024 - Current
- Assists with patient evaluations
- Assist surgeon with sedation and oral/periodontal surgical procedures
- Takes and records patient vital signs
- Accurately documents patient past medical/dental history, reason for visit, and patient encounter
- Verifies procedures, accurately generates and completes appropriate forms such as consent, opioid, bisphosphonate, and dental warranty forms
- Assists with sedation processes such as attaching monitors, N20 administration, and IV administration
- Performs clinical duties such as passing instruments, suctioning, retracting, and cutting suture
- Accurately documents surgical encounter
- Performs recovery duties with patient and caregivers. Monitors patient progress,
- provides education and discharge instructions to patient caregivers, discontinues
- IVs, discharges patients per criteria
- Takes and processes digital x-rays and CT scans as required
- Prepares diagnostic models
- Accurately documents medications prescribed by omfs physicians
- Cleans operatories and equipment as required for efficient workflow
- Prepares operatories and trays as needed
- Checks for clinical phone messages, returns patient calls and manages and documents patient concerns
- Stocks operatories, including scanning out supplies
- Participates in training new oral surgery assistants as requested
Eighth Avenue Dental
Vincent J Mandarine
08.2021 - 06.2024
- Take full mouth series X-rays
- Add new patients to dentrix/dexis
- Prepare trays for scaling and root planing, regular cleanings, fillings, bondings, veneer preparation and insertion, night guard insertion, crown and bridge, teeth whitening
- Take alginate impressions and PVS impressions
- Sterilization of instruments
- Perform Weekly spore testing
- Seat patients in timely manner
- Took dental images following strict patient protection rules by mentioning risks during pregnancy and applying lead aprons
- Explained treatment procedures and instructed patients on home care guidelines
- Administer zoom whitening and delivering pre-op and post op instructions
- Manage inventory
- Fabricate hard/soft night guards, bleaching trays and retainers
- Assisted dentists by passing instruments, suctioning intraoral fluids, and mixing materials for fillings, casts and impressions
- Cleaned and sanitized dental tools and equipment, straightened treatment rooms, and
- restocked supplies to prep for next patient and maintain health and safety practices
Lead Certified Dental Assistant
Schrier Dental Associates
06.2017 - 06.2021
- Seating patients accordingly
- Prepare treatment rooms prior to the procedure
- Prepare patients before a procedure
- Provided information and answer questions from patients related to the procedure
- Prepare all required dental instruments for procedures such as root canals, crown and bridge prep, fillings, surgical and non-surgical extractions, implant surgery, osseous surgery, also less invasive ones such as deep cleanings, crown and bridge insertion, bite adjustment, and bonding
- Assist dentist and handed required instruments
- Take radiographs/panorex
- Shade selection with patients confirmation for crown and or bridge
- Take preliminary impressions to make temporaries for crown and bridge prep Maintain cleanliness of the office
- Take photos prior to starting Invisalign
- Tracking of inventory and lab cases
- Fabricate bleaching trays, night guards, temporary crowns/bridge, and retainers
- Answer telephones occasionally to schedule appointments for patients or answer specific questions
- Denture adjustments
- Periodontal charting with the dental hygienist
- Pour models for partial dentures, full dentures, bleaching trays, and retainers Deliver pre-op and post-op instructions to patients
- Cement temporary crowns or bridges after the procedure
- Administer whitening using the zoom or Kor whitening system
- Maintenance of dental types of equipment
- Administered nitrous oxide to patients prior to procedures
- Comfort and reassure patients with dental phobia
- Take patient’s temperatures and make documentation in chart/file
Temporary Certified Dental Assistant
Mineola Smiles
10.2016 - 01.2017
- Assisted dentist during Crown and bridge preps, pulpotomy, amalgam and resin restorations
- Seated patients accordingly
- Poured study models
- Fabricated bleaching trays and temporary crowns
- Maintained dental types of equipment
- Took radiographs, developed in the darkroom, and mounted
Lead Certified Dental Assistant
Dental Arts Kew Gardens
01.2016 - 09.2016
- Speedily set up operatories and facilitated dentist during procedures such as root canal treatments, implant surgeries, sinus lifts, bone grafting, zoom whitening, resin restorations
- Took Impressions for crowns using the cerec machine
- Politely gave consent to patients
- Answer telephones occasionally when short staff
- Equipment maintenance
- Tracking of inventory
Certified Dental Assistant
Jeff C Strachan DDS
01.2013 - 08.2013
- Thoroughly Assisted Dentist with procedures such as root canals, implant surgery, apicoectomy, surgical extractions, core build-ups, resin restorations, sinus lifts, bone grafts
- Verbally gave post-op instructions when necessary after certain procedures
- Took digital radiographs using dentrix software
- Scheduled patient follow-up appointments after surgeries
- Comfort and reassure patients with dental phobia
Dental Assistant Intern
Woodhull Hospital Medical Center
10.2011 - 06.2012
- Quickly Assisted General dentists, Oral Surgeons, Dental Hygienist, and periodontists when directed
- Turned over operatories
- Seated patients in a timely manner
- Recorded medical and dental histories and vital signs of patients
- Took periapical film, bitewings, panorex, and occasionally intra-oral film
- Comfort and reassure patients with dental phobia
Education
High School Diploma - Dental Assisting Certification
Clara Barton High School
Brooklyn, NYSkills
- Knowledge of Epic, Dentrix, Dexis, Schick, Scan-x and Open dental, Itero Scanning
- Excellent communication, time management, and multi-tasking skills, Professional appearance, attitude, and demeanor
- Great hand skills and quick learner
- Punctual, reliable, and dependable hard worker
Accomplishments
- D.O.E Certified in Dental Assisting
- Radiation Health and Safety Certified
Timeline
Surgical Dental Assistant
Jefferson Maxillofacial Oral Surgery
07.2024 - Current
Eighth Avenue Dental
Vincent J Mandarine
08.2021 - 06.2024
Lead Certified Dental Assistant
Schrier Dental Associates
06.2017 - 06.2021
Temporary Certified Dental Assistant
Mineola Smiles
10.2016 - 01.2017
Lead Certified Dental Assistant
Dental Arts Kew Gardens
01.2016 - 09.2016
Certified Dental Assistant
Jeff C Strachan DDS
01.2013 - 08.2013
Dental Assistant Intern
Woodhull Hospital Medical Center
10.2011 - 06.2012
High School Diploma - Dental Assisting Certification
Clara Barton High School
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