Dental Assistant
Dentalassist
San Clemente
09.2024 - 03.2025
- Instructed patients about postoperative instructions prescribed by their dentist.
- Ensured compliance with infection control policies and procedures.
- Assisted in laboratory procedures such as mixing impression materials or pouring casts from impressions taken by dentists.
- Provided chair-side assistance during dental procedures, including passing instruments to the dentist and holding suction devices.
- Assisted dentist in providing dental treatment to patients, including taking patient medical histories and vital signs.
- Took digital X-rays of teeth using radiographic equipment.
- Sterilized instruments according to established guidelines and protocols.
- Responded promptly to requests from other staff members or dentists while maintaining a professional demeanor.
- Prepared dental materials such as amalgam, composite resin, impression material and cements for use by the dentist.
- Provided support services such as stocking rooms with supplies, cleaning trays and changing linens between patients.
- Educated patients on treatment procedures and post-procedure home care.
- Sanitized equipment, cleaned treatment rooms and restocked supplies after each patient's treatment to maintain cleanliness and prepare for next patient.
- Took bitewing, periapical, panoramic and occlusal X-rays and prepared for dentists to review.
- Assisted dentist during examinations by retracting patient's cheeks and tongue.
