Dental Hygienist Resume Example
A mid-level dental hygienist five years into practice, with a year in a periodontal office and four in general practice, holding Oregon local anesthesia and nitrous endorsements.
A fictional resume written by our team. The person, employers and numbers are invented; the tools, licenses and schools are real.
Why it works
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“RDH, 5 years in practice, seeing 9 patients a day on 50-minute appointments. Averages $1,900 a day in production with a 92% reappointment rate.”
Gives the chair numbers an owner judges hygiene by: patients per day, appointment length, production and reappointment rate.
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“Moved every recare visit to full-mouth 6-point perio charting, which grew SRP from 6 to 15 quadrants a week”
Shows real perio work by the quadrant and the change that caused it. Offices with an adult perio program read for this.
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“Held a 92% reappointment rate by booking the next visit chairside, against an office average of 81%”
A retention number with a comparison point. The office average is what gives the 92% meaning.
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“Started an adult fluoride varnish and oral cancer screening program that adds about $4,200 a month”
A program the hygienist started, with the production it brought in. It makes the case for the chair beyond prophy.
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“Performed SRP on 20 to 24 quadrants a week under local anesthesia, with 6-week re-evaluations charted in Dentrix”
Quadrants per week and the re-evaluation step prove periodontal depth, not just cleanings.
How it scored
We ran this example through the same free roast you can use, three times, and kept the middle result. The roast ranks a resume against a typical applicant pile and grades hard: even a resume with a number in nearly every bullet usually lands in the B range.
Copy the text
Use it as a skeleton, then replace every line with your own work. A copied bullet with someone else's numbers is the fastest way to fail an interview question.
Peyton Marsh Registered Dental Hygienist | General and Perio Maintenance | Dentrix Portland, OR | peyton.marsh@example.com SUMMARY RDH, 5 years in practice, seeing 9 patients a day on 50-minute appointments. Averages $1,900 a day in production with a 92% reappointment rate. EXPERIENCE Registered Dental Hygienist, Willamette Family Dental | Jun 2022 - Present - Moved every recare visit to full-mouth 6-point perio charting, which grew SRP from 6 to 15 quadrants a week - Held a 92% reappointment rate by booking the next visit chairside, against an office average of 81% - Started an adult fluoride varnish and oral cancer screening program that adds about $4,200 a month - Beat the $1,600 daily hygiene production goal in 44 of the last 48 months - Serve as OSHA and infection control lead for 6 operatories, passing 2 state inspections with no findings Dental Hygienist, Rose City Periodontics | May 2021 - May 2022 - Performed SRP on 20 to 24 quadrants a week under local anesthesia, with 6-week re-evaluations charted in Dentrix - Took full-mouth series on Dexis for about 30 new perio patients a month EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS A.A.S. Dental Hygiene, Portland Community College, 2021 Oregon RDH License, active, exp. Sep 2027 Local Anesthesia and Nitrous Oxide Endorsements (OR). BLS, current SKILLS Dentrix, Dexis imaging, Perio charting, Scaling and root planing, Local anesthesia, Nitrous oxide, Intraoral camera, OSHA and infection control
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