Dental Assistant
Accelerated Dental Assisting Academy
Mobile, AL
01.2022 - Current
- Cleaned and sanitized dental tools and equipment straightened treatment rooms and restocked supplies to prep for next patient and maintain health and safety practices.
- Performed general chair-side duties for general dentistry, endo procedures, and oral surgery.
- Sanitized trays, instruments, and surfaces for a clean dental office setting and patient safety.
- 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.
- Assisted dentists, hygienists, and other personnel by handing appropriate tools and supplies needed for procedures.
- Prepared and arranged instruments, medications, and required materials for dental procedures.
- Prepared patient X-rays and images by using the proper x-ray machines for review by the dentist.
- Created dental impressions used for diagnostics, opposing models and study casts to make crowns, bridges, and other dental prosthetics.
- Prepared rooms for patient treatment by cleaning and sterilizing tools and equipment,
- Assisted dentists by passing instruments, suctioning intraoral fluids, adding water, and mixing materials for fillings, casts, and impressions.
- 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.
- Supported dentists during procedures to restore teeth, like dental fillings, and permanent and temporary crowns.
- Measured and recorded vital statistics by taking patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse.
- Took dental images following strict patient protection rules by mentioning risks during pregnancy, and applying lead aprons.
- Administered desensitizing agents by applying numbing gel to prepare patients for anesthetic injections.
- Helped Dentists and hygienists complete routine and advanced procedures by preparing patients and instruments for expected needs.
- Cleaned and sanitized dental tools and equipment, straightened treatment rooms, and restocked supplies to prep for the next patient and maintain health and safety practices.
- Performed general chair-side duties for general dentistry, endo procedures, and oral surgery.
- Sanitized trays, instruments, and surfaces for a clean dental office setting and patient safety.
- Sterilized rooms and prepped equipment and instruments for 5-7 procedures daily.
