I have vastly built and developed my personal and professional skills set after completing all the disciplinary knowledge in dental hygiene program. My experience with the dental hygiene program has helped me developed my own set of ethics and values, and I am a better individual, professional and critical thinker as a result.
Below are are some skills set I have developed and/or enhanced throughout my academic studies. I have been using these skills to provide the best care to patients at the Dental Hygiene Clinic at New York City College of Technology. I am confident that these acquired skills will allow me to be a competent and compassionate dental hygienist.
Core Competencies and Skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Patient scheduling and appointment management
- Extraoral and intraoral examination
- Dental and periodontal charting
- Treatment planning
- Nutrition counseling
- Local anesthesia (infiltration)
- Topical sgents and oraqix anesthetics
- Nitrous oxide dedation
- Digital and film radiographs: full mouth series, bitewings, periapical and panoramic
- Alginate impressions
- Oral prophylaxis
- Scaling and root planning
- Placing and removing periodontal dressings
- Engine and air polishing
- Arestin placement
- Pits and fissured sealants with rubber dam placement and cotton roll isolation (adults and children)
- Fluoride application
- Software: DentiMax, GlaceEMR, Phreesia, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access)
