Dental resume template

Leslie puts work experience directly under the summary and before the skills rows. In a dental office the procedures you have assisted on and the infection control routine you run say more than a software list, so they should be read first. The centred blue header is the only colour, which suits a clinical practice.

Second choice: Meridian. Meridian moves labelled skill rows above the jobs, which helps front desk and billing staff whose practice software and insurance coding are the first filter.

Leslie template details and test results

Leslie prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.

1. Professional Summary. Say where you work (operatory, hygiene chair or front desk), the kind of practice (general, pediatric, orthodontic, oral surgery) and the credential a dentist checks first. A CDA, a hygiene license with its state or an expanded function permit belongs in this sentence and in the headline, because Leslie prints certifications near the bottom.
2. Work Experience. Write about the chair: the procedures you assist on (crowns, endodontics, extractions, implants), patients per day, the images you take and one bullet on infection control such as instrument reprocessing or autoclave spore testing. Front desk staff swap these for scheduling, insurance verification, treatment plan presentation and collections.
3. Skills. Clinical skills go in Technical: four-handed dentistry, radiography by image type, intraoral scanning, impressions and temporaries. Tools holds the practice and imaging software (Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, the sensor software). Keep Soft Skills to what patients notice, such as calming nervous children.
4. Education. A dental assisting certificate or diploma with school and year. If the program was CODA-accredited, say so in the detail line: graduation from one is a recognised route to the DANB CDA.
5. Certifications. Write credentials in full: Certified Dental Assistant (CDA) from DANB, BLS with its year, and any state radiography or expanded function permit. DANB builds the CDA from three exams (radiation health and safety, infection control and general chairside assisting), and every eligibility pathway needs current hands-on CPR, BLS or ACLS, so renew a lapsed card before you apply.
6. Continuing education. Continuing education shows you keep up between renewals. List the course, hours and year, newest first, and keep only courses that relate to the job, such as digital impressions or sedation monitoring.

The same content as the files above, so you can copy a line or compare it with your own.

Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.

• chairside assisting
• four-handed dentistry
• dental radiography
• infection control
• instrument sterilization
• Standard Precautions
• CDT codes
• treatment planning
• intraoral scanning
• Dentrix
• patient education
• insurance verification
• HIPAA
• CPR/BLS

• Duties every assistant shares ("cleaned rooms, seated patients") with no procedures, volumes or imaging named.
• Leaving the CDA or hygiene license only at the bottom of the page, where it is read last.
• Claiming duties your state does not allow your role to perform, such as scaling or coronal polishing without the permit.
• Patient names, case photos or anything copied from a chart, even with the name blacked out.

We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.

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We opened every page below on that date. Pay, rules and requirements change, so check the source before you rely on a detail.

1. Dental Assisting National Board (DANB): Certified Dental Assistant (CDA) exam (the CDA exam includes the RHS, ICE and General Chairside Assisting (GC) exams; Pathway I is graduation from a CODA-accredited dental assisting or dental hygiene program; all pathways require current hands-on CPR, BLS or ACLS from a DANB-accepted provider)
2. American Dental Association: CDT: Code on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature (the CDT Code assures consistency in documenting dental treatment; the Code Maintenance Committee meets every year to agree changes for the next edition)
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Summary of Infection Prevention Practices in Dental Settings: Basic Expectations for Safe Care (Standard Precautions as the foundation; applies to all dental personnel including nonclinical staff; documented transmission linked to improper handpiece sterilization and unmonitored autoclaves)