Sarah Panis
Mission,KS
Summary
I am a talented implant coordinator and surgical assistant with 29 years of oral surgery experience in a office setting. High productivity and efficient task completion is what I specialize in, as well as an extreme attention to detail. I excel in patient communication, problem-solving, and time management, ensuring successful project outcomes.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
Implant Coordinator (expanded Duties)
Facial Surgery Group
Kansas City, MO
06.1999 - 12.2024
- Fee estimates- type, mail, & update templates with new fees
- Going over fee estimates with patients when they have questions
- Doing checklist & paperwork for Implant and bone graft appointments(not including socket grafts or onlay grafts)
- Making appointment notes & checking to make sure correct time given for Implants, bone grafts(excluding socket grafts), uncovers, & snappy appointments at both offices
- Having correct supplies and instrumentation for each surgery
- Making sure clearance has been obtained for blood thinner patients, calling patient to make them aware they need to be off of blood thinner per their protocol for surgery
- Going through the schedule and requesting or pulling charts in order to do workups on Implant, graft(excluding socket grafts), uncover, & snappy appointments
- Making sure deposits have been collected on surgeries, notifying when not collected
- Surgical guides-taking scans, uploading, preplanning, planning cases, setting up plannings with Marc & Ted for difficult cases, highlighting & labeling guides & guide sheets with notes for surgery, ordering specific implant parts and making sure with guide, scheduling pt., making viewer file on desktop for guide, filling away & organizing storage of used guides and models
- Calling patients and explaining when additional procedures are necessary to do implants, going over cost
- Ordering, exchanging, & organization of Implant stock for both offices
- Keeping a up to date pricelist of bone and implant supplies-checked yearly
- Returning of failed implants by questionnaire and making a yearly report
- Answering of implant questions from DDS offices and patients
- Doing monthly implant & abutment count for each doctor per office
- Doing Implant count by referral report yearly
- DSS preference lists-updating and calling new doctors to find out preferences on implants and snappy’s
- Notifying Implant reps
- When needed to call on DDS offices
- Working with donated dental patients to get supplies ordered
- Requesting of guides, partials, & dentures for implant cases
- Scheduling of patients
- Coordinating DDS, Lab, and Implant rep
- To attend surgeries, patient appointments for before or after they see us
- Lending equipment to DDS offices
- Informing doctors of the need to place large implant orders –getting proposals from implant reps
- PRN duties- front & back office-answering phone, checking in patients, scheduling patients, seating patients, assisting in surgeries, etc
Surgical Assistant
Larry S. Jacobson DDS
Kansas City, MO
08.1996 - 06.1999
Surgical Assistant
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates
Kansas City, MO
08.1995 - 08.1996
Education
Medical Assistant
Concorde Career Institute
Kansas City, MO05-1995
Dental Hygiene (prerequisites Only)
Johnson County Community College
Overland Park, KSTimeline
Implant Coordinator (expanded Duties)
Facial Surgery Group
06.1999 - 12.2024
Surgical Assistant
Larry S. Jacobson DDS
08.1996 - 06.1999
Surgical Assistant
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates
08.1995 - 08.1996
Medical Assistant
Concorde Career Institute
Dental Hygiene (prerequisites Only)
Johnson County Community College
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