The following skills enhance my ability to become a professional dental hygienist. These clinical skills improve my dental hygienist’s experiences.
- Performing oral prophylaxis and scaling and root planning by using ultrasonic and hand scaling
- Administering local anesthesia
- Applying Oraqix and Topical analgesics
- Placing pit and fissure sealants with rubber dam placement and cotton roll isolation techniques for pediatric and adult patients
- Placing Arestin and post-placement of assessment
- Supragingival and subgingival air polishing
- Experienced in dental charting and periodontal screenings
- Identifying caries risk level for patients
- Exposing dental radiographs: panoramic, full mouth series, bitwings and periapicals x-rays
- Applying fluoride treatment (Vanish and Gel)
- Placing and removing the periodontal dressing
- Taking and pouring alginate impressions
- Extraoral and Intraoral examinations – Oral cancer screening
- Taking vital signs including BP, pulse and respiration rate
- Using DentiMax and Softdent dental software
- Engine polishing
