Saima Shohliay
Yuba City,CA
Summary
Registered Dental Assistant
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Dental Assistant
Yuba City Dentistry Group
06.2022 - Current
- Maintained dental supply inventory by checking stock to determine inventory levels and placing and expediting orders for supplies.
- Educated patients on postoperative care and best practices for protecting dental work and boosting healing process.
- 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.
- Staged tray for procedures by arranging dental instruments and equipment.
- Prepared comprehensive radiological images, allowing supervisory dental staff to spot cavities, tooth decay, and areas needing treatment.
- Assisted dentists by passing instruments, suctioning intraoral fluids, adding water, and mixing materials for fillings, Type, casts and impressions.
- Supported dentists during procedures, assisting dental fillings, permanent, and temporary crowns and sealants.
- Cleaned and sanitized dental tools and equipment, straightened treatment rooms, and restocked supplies to prep for next patient and maintain health and safety practices.
- Explained treatment procedures and instructed patients on home care guidelines.
- Performed general chair-side duties for general dentistry, endo procedures, and oral surgery.
- Educated patients on dental hygiene, pre-surgical instructions and post-surgical care.
- Typed patient data into computer system using Software while following privacy laws and maintaining high-level accuracy.
- Prepared rooms for patient treatment by cleaning and sterilizing tools and equipment and setting up x-ray machines.
- Created dental impressions used for diagnostics, opposing models and study casts to make crowns, bridges, and other dental prosthetics.
- Took dental images following strict patient protection rules, applying lead aprons.
- Ensured compliance with infection control protocols, contributing to a safe and clean work environment.
Sales Associate
Ross
02.2019 - 12.2021
- Recommended, selected, and helped locate and obtain merchandise based on customer needs and desires
- Greeted customers and ensured customers were engaging in a positive store experience
- Ticketed, arranged and displayed merchandise to promote sales
- Opened and closed cash registers, performing tasks such as counting money, separating charge slips, coupons, and vouchers, balancing cash drawers, and making deposits
- Maintained knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices
- Computed sales prices, totaled purchases and received and processed cash and credit payment
Education
Dental Assistant -
Sutter County One Stop
Yuba City, CA05.2022
Associates - Natural Science
Yuba Community College
Marysville, CA05.2019
Skills
- Bilingual: Punjabi/English
- Well-organized
- Efficient
- Team player
- Enthusiasm
- Energy
- Honest
- Friendly
- Outstanding communication skills
- Dependable
- Able to recognize patient/customer needs
- Professional appearance
- Compassionate attitude
- Identifying teeth surfaces
- Teeth numbering
- Teeth naming
- Names of arches
- Skilled at quadrants
- Oral morphology
- Knowledge of 4 handed dentistry
- Knowledge of 6 handed dentistry
- Identifying periodontal disease
- Identifying gingivitis
- Educating patients
- Knowledge of enamel
- Knowledge of cementum
- Knowledge of pulp
- Knowledge of pulp horns
- Knowledge of root
- Knowledge of crown
- Knowledge of TMJ disorders
- Caries risk assessment
- Educating patients on proper brush and floss techniques
- Knowledge of oral mucosa
- Oral pathology knowledge of permanent dentition
- Oral pathology knowledge of primary dentition
Certification
- Basic Life Support CPR, 08/23
- OSHA Infection Control
- CA Dental Practice Act
- X-Ray Certification
Timeline
Registered Dental Assistant
Yuba City Dentistry Group
06.2022 - Current
Sales Associate
Ross
02.2019 - 12.2021
Dental Assistant -
Sutter County One Stop
Associates - Natural Science
Yuba Community College
- Basic Life Support CPR, 08/23
- OSHA Infection Control
- CA Dental Practice Act
- X-Ray Certification
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