what do you think of this resume??

DENTAL ASSISTANT Offering the following select qualifications: · Experienced in dental procedures for oral examination and routine restoration. · Skilled in taking impressions, bite registrations and fabricate models · Ensure compliance with OSHA and MSDS guidelines. · Provide personal oral care instructions. · Deliver community dental health presentations and manage health fair booths. · Sterilizing and disinfecting dental equipment in order to prepare for surgery · Organizing the applicable instruments for dental procedures · Using suction devices to keep patients mouths dry and clear · Instructing patients on general oral hygiene as well as post-operative care · Taking dental x-rays and processing x-ray film PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Dental Assistant Intern Claude Hudson Clinic Dental Facilty January/06- April 06 2829 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles 90007 · Proficiently arranged dental instruments and materials for chair side tray. · Sterilize instruments using autoclaves and chemical disinfectants to maintain accepted standards. · Translated for many patients throughout my time there · Educated patients about oral hygiene plaque control, and post-operative care. · Mounted x-rays according to the type of procedure. EDUCATION East Los Angeles Occupational Center, Los Angeles, CA Dental Assistant Certificate, 2005-2006 Bravo Medical Magnet High School, Los Angeles, CA High School Diploma,2003-2007 Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA Degree in progress, 2007- present COMPUTER SKILLS 40 WPM, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
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I've never looked at a resume for a dental assistant but I'll take a crack at it. Overall, it's in pretty good shape but I would change a few things. Your qualifications are fine but you have a problem with the language and tone. Typically, you want your points to be consistent and show action, skill, experience, etc. In your case, your first two are fine...Experienced in....Skilled in.....But the rest are expressed more like things you're doing or might do. As an example, you could change "Provide personal oral care instructions" to simply 'Provided personal oral care instructions" but I would go a little beyond that. For a dental assistant, the interpersonal skills are just as important as the technical skills since you are the main contact for most dental visits and will typically have more contact with the patients than the dentist. Therefore, you may want to emphasize that aspect of your resume when you make your points. Back to our oral care instructions example, you could change it to: "Regularly worked one on one with patients providing detailed oral care instructions and discussing good oral hygiene practices." That might be a bit too much but you get the idea. Also, you could fill-in a little more detail for your qualifications such as include what was accomplished or the benefits these skills will bring to the practice. In other words, you want to sell yourself or show what you bring to the table besides just a series of technical skills. You can also include other skills besides your dental experience as long as it's applicable to the job. You kind of buried the translation aspect of your experience under your clinic work. If this was my resume and I was looking for work in LA, I would put being bilingual as one of the main points since that might be very handy. The same goes for any other skills or experience that might be applicable.
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