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Dental Hygienist Resume
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You see eight to ten patients a day, chart the perio, scale the calculus and talk the nervous ones through it. Your resume says 'performed cleanings.' A cleaning is what you do to the operatory.
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Common Mistakes on Dental Hygienist Resumes
The patterns that keep turning up, and why they cost you the call.
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License listed as 'RDH' with no state and no expiration, and no mention of local anesthesia or nitrous oxide permits, which vary by state and matter to the office.
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No patient volume or appointment length. Eight patients a day on 60-minute appointments and twelve on 40-minute ones are different jobs.
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'Performed prophylaxis and scaling' with no sign of the periodontal side: SRP quadrants, perio maintenance, charting, re-evaluation, referrals.
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No hygiene production or reappointment numbers, which is how the practice owner sees your chair.
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Practice software unnamed. Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental and Curve are different enough that the office manager wants to know.
What Healthcare Reviewers Check First
Generic resume advice averages every field together. This is what someone hiring for this one actually looks for.
License and permits for the state, checked before anything else: RDH, local anesthesia, nitrous, and radiography where the state licenses it separately.
Whether you do real perio or only prophy. Offices with an adult perio program are reading for SRP and maintenance experience by the quadrant.
Chair productivity and whether patients come back. Production per day and reappointment rate tell the owner what the hygiene column is worth.
One Dental Hygienist Bullet, Rewritten
The advice above, applied to one typical line.
Before
Performed dental cleanings, took x-rays, and educated patients on oral hygiene.
After
RDH in a two-doctor general practice seeing 9 patients a day on 50-minute appointments in Dentrix. Averaged $1,800 a day in hygiene production, grew SRP cases by moving to full-mouth perio charting on every recare visit, and held a 91% reappointment rate.
Cleanings and x-rays are what the license says you can do. Production, appointment length, a perio change you made and the reappointment rate are what the practice is actually paying the chair for.
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Sample Roast Lines for Dental Hygienists
The kind of lines the roast writes for this role. Yours will be about what’s actually on your resume.
“'Educated patients on oral hygiene' is on the poster in the waiting room. What did your recall rate look like?”
“Your resume says 'skilled with hand instruments.' That is the entry requirement for the licensing exam.”
“'Maintained a clean and sterile environment.' The autoclave would like a co-author credit.”
How to Fix Your Dental Hygienist Resume
Specific moves that actually move the grade.
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Open with the license block: RDH, state and expiration, local anesthesia permit, nitrous oxide permit if your state issues one, CPR/BLS, and laser certification if you have it.
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Give the chair numbers: patients per day, appointment length, hygiene production per day or month, and your recall or reappointment rate.
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Make the periodontal work visible: SRP quadrants per week, perio maintenance share of your schedule, full-mouth charting and how you track re-evaluation.
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Name the practice management and imaging software (Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, Dexis, intraoral cameras) and the sterilization or OSHA role you held.
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Show case acceptance or a program you ran: fluoride varnish, sealants, oral cancer screenings, an adult perio program that grew SRP cases.
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Roast My Dental Hygienist Resume For FreeDental Hygienist Resume Questions
Should hygiene production numbers go on my resume?
Yes, if you know them and the practice would not object. Daily or monthly production and your reappointment rate are the two numbers an owner or office manager uses to judge a hygiene schedule. If you do not have the exact figure, give patients per day and appointment length and let them do the math.
How do I handle temp or multi-office work on a hygienist resume?
Group it under one heading with the agency or 'independent temp' and the date range, then list the practice types (general, perio, pediatric) and software you worked in. A dozen one-week entries look unstable when the work was steady.
Do I list continuing education?
Only what changes what you can do in the chair: local anesthesia, nitrous, laser, soft-tissue management or a specific perio program. The CE hours you need to renew the license are assumed and do not need their own section.
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