Kate Soileau
Southern Pines, NC ***** 910-***-**** ***********@*****.***
Objective Seeking a permanent position within a dental office bringing the following skills and
attributes; extensive experience working with the general public, and the dental office
environment, interface well with others at all levels including patients, customers,
children, and professionals. Caring with a strong work ethic with excellent interpersonal
communication, customer service, and office support skills.
Dental Assistant / Clinical Coordinator
Experience
December 2008- Current Carolina Dental Sleep Center Southern Pines, NC
Assisted the dentist with patient care. Wrote up pt. charts.
Took photographs, models, and digital panorex on patients
Prepared and cleaned patient rooms, Wrote up patient charts. Wrote lab slips, and
prepared cases for the lab.
Scheduled and confirmed patient appointments
W rote and filed insurance claims
W rote and sent thank you letters to referring doctors
Dental Assistant
July 2007 - May 2008 Dr. Edward Paris DDS, Endodontist, Columbus, GA
Assisted Doctor with root canals and surgery procedures
Took digital radiographs and measured canals
Dries canals and placed temporary fillings
Cemented temporary crowns
Instructed patients on procedures and post operatory instructions
Cleaned and sterilized treatment rooms
Sterilization
W rote up patient charts
Dental Assistant
2004-2007, James R. Miears, D.D.S., P.C., Fairbanks, AK
Assisted the dentist with procedures including crown, bridge, and veneer
preparations, resin and amalgam fillings, and emergency procedures.
Duties included setting up and cleaning up patient rooms, taking and developing
dental radiographs, placing the rubber damn and retraction cord, fabricating and
cementing temporary crowns and bridges, removing temporary crowns and bridges and
preparing the tooth for final cementation, taking and developing photographs for esthetic
cases, taking and pouring up alginate impressions, taking bite registrations and face
bows, trimming and finishing models, fabricating bleach trays, mouth guards, and stints,
waxing up teeth on models for bridges, writing up patient charts, entering treatment
plans, writing up lab slips and sending impressions to the laboratory, and giving patient
home care instructions after treatment.
When needed, administrative duties included calling patients about appointments,
answering phones, setting up appointments, checking patients out after treatment using
the Dentrix program.
Education University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska
2004-2007
Associates in Applied Science in Dental Assisting
References References are available on request.