Sadie Salazar

• Oversaw students in classroom and common areas to monitor, enforce rules, and support lead teacher.
• Improved classroom management by assisting teachers with behavioral interventions and monitoring student progress.
• Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.

Shortly into the year I got moved from General Education para to Adaptive ed para

• Greeted incoming visitors and customers professionally and provided friendly, knowledgeable assistance.
• Answered phone promptly and directed incoming calls to correct offices.

I was a receptionist here and occasionally helped with Dental duties in the back. I worked chairside along all general dentistry procedures.

I also assisted with Nitrous patients, Oral Sedation, IV Sedation patients.

I had opportunity of learning the basics of Orthodontics as well. My duties for Ortho are listed below

• Cleaned and sanitized dental tools and equipment, straightened treatment rooms, and restocked supplies to prep for next patient and maintain health and safety practices.
• Changing wires
• Applying/removing O bands, and power chains
• Helping the orthodontist apply brackets
• Remove brackets
• trim wires
• Ortho note taking
• Consulatations

When I got promoted my duties expanded as listed below.

• Oversaw inventory management processes including purchasing office supplies and equipment ensuring our office always stayed stocked.
• I would train all new Dental Assistants as they entered our company
• I would over see and keep maintenance up for our nomads, dental chairs, auto clave, ultra sonic, hygiene equipment, panoramic machine, sensors.
• I would make sure the flow would run smoothly in the back for dental assistants
• I assigned schedules for treatments and recalls for DAs
• contact air gas for all nitrous and oxygen tanks
• I would over see all phone calls for DDS, Glidwell, Clear Correct
• Call for biohazard pick ups

• Cleaned and sanitized dental tools and equipment, straightened treatment rooms, and restocked supplies to prep for next patient and maintain health and safety practices.
• Documented patient dental health information, medical history, and vital signs for future reference.
• Sanitized trays, instruments, and surfaces for clean dental office setting and patient safety.
• procedures I worked along chairside were

-Root Canals

-Extractions

-Crowns, bridges

-Implants

-Dentures

-Nitrous patients (adults/kids)

• Updated patient records regularly after each appointment or procedure to ensure accurate documentation.
• Educated patients on dental hygiene, pre-surgical instructions and post-surgical care.
• Maintained a positive attitude under pressure while multitasking in a fast-paced clinical setting, leading to a more pleasant experience for both staff and patients alike.
• I was a floater that managed front desk duties as well that included greeting patients, handling phone calls, appointments and maintaining communication between staff members.

I was very new when I started here so my duties were limited until I was more familiarized with everything. the passion for learning and staying committed to continual improvement for myself in dental has always been there.

• Chairside assisting in root canals and apicoectomy
• Taking CBCTs
• Stocking up Op rooms
• sanitizing rooms
• sterilizing instruments
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