Julie-dawn Charlesworth

• Prepare and arrange instruments, medications and required material
• Prepare patients for dental health services and instruct them in appropriate post dental treatment, diet and oral hygiene
• Prepare dental materials: cements, composite, amalgam, impression materials, etc
• Promptly follow all instructions from the dentist dealing with patient comfort
• Take inventory, stock all supplies, instruments, medications, and order said items
• Processing digital dental x-rays and maintain x-ray machinery
• Experienced with the art of four-handed dentistry
• Performed coronal polishing,  and administered fluoride applications as needed
• Maintain dental equipment and operatoires in good, clean condition at all times
• Maintain the instruments and working areas in strict accordance with sterilization/disinfect ion protocols per OSHA guidelines
• Cross-train in other dental support positions as necessary, i.e., reception, hygiene assistant.
• Maintain personnel protection per OSHA guidelines as it pertains to personnel safety, i.e., protective clothing, eyewear, gloves
• Deep sense of punctuality, accuracy, efficiency and  professionalism
• Excellent communication skills

• Skilled in basic knowledge in the art of four-handed dentistry
• Assisted dentist with dental procedures through chairside examination and treatment
• Prepare patient for examination and treatment processes
• Maintain and set up dental equipment and instruments
• Disassembled and reassembled room, cleaned, and seated patient for dentist
• Recorded treatment information
• Provided patients with information about ongoing procedures
• Assisted with x-rays and the development of them

• Ensured a positive experience at Dental Art Clinic by being helpful and upbeat
• Greeted and scheduled patients on telephone and in person
• Augmented front desk personnel in scheduling, and retrieving records
• Provided word-processing and Dentrix-system and clerical support
• Walkout patients, verified procedures completed, collected payments
• Confirmed next day's appointments and recalls scheduled 3 month advance 
• Had patients complete paperwork and enter all pertinent information into computer
• Retrieved mail, entered and scanned payments and referral documents

• Skilled in basic knowledge in the art of four-handed dentistry  
• Assisted dentist with dental procedures at chairside examination and treatment of patient
• Assisted and observed dental hygienist by flossing, giving fluoride treatments
• Took, developed and mounted radiographs
• Prepared patient for examination and treatment  processes
• Maintained and set up dental equipment and instruments
• Disassembled and reassembled room, cleaned, and seated patients for dentist and dental hygienist
• Provided over five hundred clinical hours, extending volunteer services over one- thousand hours
• Expanding further training in several dental specialties including: dental hygiene, oral surgery, periodontics, periodontics, oral diagnosis, and radiology

• Functioned at an entry level position as a dental assistant 
• Eighty hours of classroom and clinical training
• Training in lab, clinical, visual, and audio aids
• Textbook work, and testing required

Evans Naval Dental Clinic, Okinawa, Japan

       Training received in the following:

• Eighty hours of classroom training
• Five-hundred volunteer hours required; giving over One Thousand volunteer hours
• Dental treatment room preparation
• Dental treatment breakdown
• Basic assisting techniques
• Materials usage and the correct mixing and handling of materials
• Vital signs
• Charting
• Rubber Dam
• Matrix Band
• Cavity Preparation
• Front desk procedures, patient contact, record retrieval, appointment scheduling
• Central sterilization room
• Watch and assist radiology procedures
• Watch and assist endodontic procedures
• Watch and assist periodontic procedures
• Watch and assist dental hygienist 
• Watch and assist general dentist

Successfully completed Apex Dental Assisting Program which comprised of eighty hours classroom and clinical application.

Successfully completed The American Red Cross and U.S. Navy Dental Assistance Training which is comprised of eighty hours classroom training and five hundred hours of clinical application.