Below is a list of all the skills I have acquired throughout these past two years that will enhance my ability to be a skilled professional.

1. Scheduling patients in an orderly fashion.
2. Confirming appointments.
3. Design a Treatment plan.
4. Intra Oral and Extra Oral examinations/ Oral Cancer Screenings.
5. Expose digital radiographs including panoramic, bite wings, and full mouth series.
6. Expose, develop, mount, and interpret film radiographs including bitewings and full mouth series.
7. Explain radiographic findings to patients.
8. Perform periodontal assessments and determine type.
9. Perform gingival assessments.
10. Correctly Dental chart.
11. Apply disclosing solution.
12. Calculate plaque score.
13. Provide patient education about home care including how to properly brush, floss and rinse, what products they should use to benefit their oral health care needs, if they should use additional aids like floss threaders to reach under pontics of 3 (or more) unit bridges or proxa brushes to clean between wide embrasure spaces.
14. Write referrals.
15. Identify caries risk level.
16. Make proper fluoride recommendations.
17. Take alginate impressions.
18. Pour alginate impressions.
19. Mix and apply periodontal dressings.
20. Apply matrix band using tofflemire.
21. Mix cement and apply temporary fillings.
22. Take rubber based impressions.
23. Clean dentures.
24. Detect Calculus and soft deposits.
25. Scaling and root planning using cavitron/ultrasonic and hand instruments.
26. Assess patient’s need for Arestin.
27. Arestin placement.
28. Air polish/ Prophy jet.
29. Engine Polish.
30. Apply fluoride gels and varnishes.
31. Administer Nitrous oxide sedation.
32. Administer Local anesthesia infiltration injections.
33. Apply rubber dam.
34. Apply sealants with cotton roll or rubber dam.
35. Assess and provide treatment to elderly and pediatric patients.
36. Establish a dental hygiene diagnosis and make treatment plans according to that diagnosis.
37. Establish re-care appointment intervals.