Patricia Bohenek

Where my dental career started. General dental assistant duties.

• Cleaned and sanitized dental instruments and equipment, straightened treatment rooms, and restocked supplies to prep for next patient and maintain health and safety practices.

• Provided clerical support to colleagues
• Provided clerical support to employees by copying, faxing, scanning, and filing documents.
• Responded to inquiries from patients seeking information.
• Documented patient dental health information, medical history, and vital signs for future reference.
• Prepared and arranged instruments, medications, and required materials for dental procedures.
• Recorded patients' health histories, documented current symptoms, and pulled up records from prior visits for dentists to view and evaluate.
• Performed general chair-side duties for general dentistry, endo procedures, oral surgery, implants, 3D printing, Cadcam.
• Sterilized rooms and prepped equipment and instruments for daily procedures.
• Treatment planning and educating patients to accept recommended care.
• Working with 3rd party providers to help patients with payments to receive quality care.