Dentist Resume Example

Rounded clinic card with a procedure log grid and treatment-focused experience.

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Mariana Costa

General Dentist, DMD
mariana.costa@example.com+351 912 345 678Lisbon, Portugallinkedin.com/in/marianacosta-dmd

General dentist with 8 years in private and group practice. I focus on implant restoration, endodontics and anxious patients, keep a 96% treatment-plan acceptance rate and introduced a digital workflow (intraoral scanning) that halved crown remakes.

Procedure log

1,150Root canals
420Implant crowns
2,300Composite fillings
96%Plan acceptance

Experience

Associate Dentist
Clínica Dentária Avenida · Lisbon
Jan 2020 – Present
  • Treat 14–18 patients a day; grew my personal book from 600 to 1,450 active patients in 3 years
  • Introduced intraoral scanning and same-day CEREC crowns; remakes fell from 7% to 3%
  • Built a sedation-friendly pathway for anxious patients, cutting missed appointments by 31%
Dentist, Implant Restorative Team
Malo Clinic · Lisbon
Sep 2016 – Dec 2019
  • Restored 420 implants, including 38 full-arch All-on-4® cases, with a 98.6% 5-year survival rate
  • Mentored 4 newly qualified dentists through the clinic's 12-month foundation programme
Dental Officer, Oral Surgery
Hospital de Santa Maria · Lisbon
Sep 2015 – Aug 2016
  • Performed 600+ surgical extractions and third-molar removals under local anaesthesia

Summary example

General dentist with [N] years in private and group practice. I focus on implant restoration, endodontics and anxious patients, keep a [X%] treatment-plan acceptance rate and introduced a digital workflow (intraoral scanning) that halved crown remakes.

Example bullet points for a Dentist

  • Treat [N]–[N] patients a day; grew my personal book from [N] to [N] active patients in [N] years
  • Introduced intraoral scanning and same-day CEREC crowns; remakes fell from [X%] to [X%]
  • Built a sedation-friendly pathway for anxious patients, cutting missed appointments by [X%]
  • Restored [N] implants, including [N] full-arch All-on-4® cases, with a [X%] [N]-year survival rate
  • Mentored [N] newly qualified dentists through the clinic's [N]-month foundation programme
  • Performed [N]+ surgical extractions and third-molar removals under local anaesthesia

Replace the [brackets] with your own numbers and facts. Never claim results you didn't achieve.

Skills to include

  • Implant restoration
  • Rotary endodontics
  • Aesthetic composites
  • Conscious sedation
  • CEREC CAD/CAM
  • 3Shape TRIOS
  • CBCT
  • Practice software (Dentrix)

Tips for a Dentist resume

  1. Put the hard requirements recruiters screen for in the top third: Implant restoration, Rotary endodontics, Aesthetic composites.
  2. List current credentials with the issuing body, e.g. Ordem dos Médicos Dentistas — Licence No. 7731, All-on-4® Restorative Certification.
  3. Give every recent role at least one measured result.
  4. Match the job title in your headline to the posting where it is honest to do so.
  5. Run the built-in resume checker and paste the job description into the keyword match before you download.

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