Samantha N Couchman
Fulton
Summary
I am a dedicated individual who is ambitious about furthering my career as a dental assistant. I have 9 years of hands-on experience, as well as vocational-level training. I work well with others; I can multitask, I enjoy a challenging work environment, and I try to keep a well-organized, efficient, and clean workspace.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Dental Assistant
Quest Dental Group
08.2016 - Current
- Dental X-rays.
- Occlusal guards, retainers, and temporary crowns.
- Dentrix
- Dexis
- Implants, composite restorations, and crown preparations.
- Execute entry and maintenance of treatments and past work records.
- Sterilization
- Fluent in use of Itero and Trios scanners for restorations, models, and scanning implant guides.
- Comoftable with traid and Ministar series for laboratory work.
Education
Dental Assistant Program -
OCM BOCES
Liverpool08.2016
Skills
- Assist doctors during treatment, and provide post-op and pre-op instructions to patients
- Knowledgeable in using the TRIOS and Itero scanners and using the Ministar S series for lab work
- Taking digital X-rays, intraoral photos, and impressions
- Pouring and taking impressions, make custom trays, retainers and bleaching trays
- Make provisional crowns and/or bridges
- Sterilize instruments and maintain sterilization, ie, monthly maintenance on the autoclave and Statim, as well as changing cold soak and other chemicals
- Maintain operatories, ie, stocking supplies, filling water bottles, changing unit traps, and checking the strength of the curing light
- Keep track of lab cases, and when they are going out and coming back from the lab
- Knowledgeable in the use of Dexis and Dentrix, and in inputting patient information and treatment
- Also, I have helped with processing payments and checking in patients at the front desk when needed
- Familiar with fixing some dental equipment, ie, replacing bulbs, chair valves, water filters, and air filters in the system vacuum
Certification
Current NYS license for dental assisting in NYS
Timeline
Dental Assistant
Quest Dental Group
08.2016 - Current
Dental Assistant Program -
OCM BOCES
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