Socorro Garcia
Kennewick
Summary
Experienced with patient care and dental procedure support, ensuring smooth clinic operations. Utilizes effective sterilization and infection control practices for safe environment. Knowledge of dental software and radiography, enhancing patient care quality and clinic efficiency.
Successfully supported dental procedures and ensured patient comfort, contributing to improved practice efficiency. Demonstrated competence in sterilization techniques and patient record management, consistently maintaining high standards of care.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Dental Assistant
Three Rivers Dental
10.2024 - Current
- Sterilized rooms and prepped equipment and instruments for procedures daily.
- Assisted dentists, hygienists, and other personnel by handing appropriate tools and supplies needed for procedures.
- Prepared instruments and equipment for use in dental procedures, ensuring their availability when needed.
- Took dental images following strict patient protection rules, applying lead aprons.
- Recorded patients' health histories, documented current symptoms, and pulled up records from prior visits for dentists to view and evaluate.
- Assisted dentists with complex procedures, ensuring optimal patient care and treatment outcomes.
Dental Assistant
Barton & Blair Dental Center
06.2016 - 10.2024
- Educated patients on postoperative care, including how to protect dental work and boost healing.
- Created dental impressions used for diagnostics, opposing models and study casts to make crowns, bridges, and other dental prosthetics.
- Managed inventory of dental supplies, reducing waste and optimizing resource allocation.
- Prepared patient x-rays and images for dentist review.
- Assisted dentists by passing instruments, suctioning intraoral fluids, adding water, and mixing materials for fillings,, casts and impressions.
- Scheduled and confirmed patient appointments.
- Educated patients on dental hygiene, pre-surgical instructions and post-surgical care.
- Cleaned and sanitized dental tools and equipment, straightened treatment rooms, and restocked supplies to prep for next patient and maintain health and safety practices.
- Maintained a clean and sterile work environment to prevent cross-contamination and infection.
- Performed x-rays safely while adhering to radiation safety guidelines, ensuring high-quality diagnostic images for dentists'' evaluations.
- Prepared and arranged instruments, medications, and required materials for dental procedures.
- Successfully assisted dentist by performing four-handed dentistry and other chair-side duties.
- Performed general chair-side duties for general dentistry, endo procedures, and oral surgery.
Dental Assistant
Benton City Dentistry
11.2015 - 02.2016
- Cleaned and sanitized dental tools and equipment, straightened treatment rooms and restocked supplies to prep for next patient and maintain health and safety practices.
- Assisted dentists, hygienists and other personnel by handing appropriate tools and supplies needed for procedures.
- Administered desensitizing agents by applying numbing gel to prepare patients for anesthetic injections.
- Took dental images following strict patient protection rules by mentioning risks during pregnancy and applying lead aprons.
Education
RDA - RDA
Tri-Cities Dental Assisting School
Kennewick, WA11-2015
GED -
Yakima Valley Community College
3 2003
High School Diploma -
Sunnyside High School
Sunnyside, WA7 1997
Skills
- Bilingual in Spanish and English
- Dental chairside assistance
- Customer support
- Effective communication
- Proficient in Dentrix
- Sterilization techniques
- Patient intake procedures
- Quick Learner
- Dental imaging proficiency
- Proficient in dental airflow cleaning techniques
- Order processing
Certification
- RDA - Registered Dental Assistant
Languages
Spanish
English
Timeline
Dental Assistant
Three Rivers Dental
10.2024 - Current
Dental Assistant
Barton & Blair Dental Center
06.2016 - 10.2024
Dental Assistant
Benton City Dentistry
11.2015 - 02.2016
RDA - RDA
Tri-Cities Dental Assisting School
GED -
Yakima Valley Community College
High School Diploma -
Sunnyside High School
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