Dental Hygienist resume examples for 2025
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How to write a dental hygienist resume
Craft a resume summary statement
Your resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to writing the most important 2-4 sentences of your resume:
Step 1: Start with your professional title, or the one you aspire to.
Step 2: Detail your years of experience in dental hygienist-related roles and your industry experience.
Step 3: What are your biggest professional wins? Here is your opportunity to highlight your strongest accomplishments by placing them at the start of your resume.
Step 4: Don't forget, your goal is to summarize your experience. Keep it short and sweet, so it's easy for recruiters to quickly understand why you're a great hire.
These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some dental hygienist interviews.Hi, I'm Zippi, your job search robot. Let me write a first draft of your summary statement.
List the right project manager skills
Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:
- Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
- Include as many relevant hard or technical dental hygienist skills as possible for each job you apply to.
- Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a dental hygienist resume:
- Patients
- Patient Care
- CPR
- Medical History
- Infection Control
- Work Ethic
- Local Anesthesia
- RDH
- Dental Equipment
- Dental Instruments
- OSHA
- Dentrix
- Dexterity
- Blood Pressure
- Vital Signs
- Dental Health
- Oral Hygiene
- Digital Radiographs
- Dental Prophylaxis
- Health History
- Health Education
- Digital X-Rays
- Dental Hygiene
- Nitrous Oxide
- Dental Procedures
- Preventative Care
- Team Support
- Local Anesthetic
- Planing
- Resuscitation
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How to structure your work experience
Your work experience should be structured:
- With your most recent roles first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
- Job title, along with company name and location on the left.
- Put the corresponding dates of employment on the left side.
- Keep only relevant jobs on your work experience.
How to write dental hygienist experience bullet points
Effective job bullet points do more than just describe your job duties. Instead, they should be specific and measurable accomplishments. Here are some strategies to mastering job bullet points:
- Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
- Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
- Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.
Here are great bullet points from dental hygienist resumes:
Work History Example #1
Pediatric Dental Hygienist
Hagerty Insurance Agency
- Helped schedule and supervise back staff employees, making sure they abide by OSHA's regulations.
- Assisted Dentists with general dentistry operations.
- Performed coronal polishings, took impressions, and filed.
- Utilized knowledge of CPR, when complications arose with clients' breathing, and gave them oxygen.
- Completed coronal polishing, radiographs, fabricated dental bridges and cementedtemporary crowns.
Work History Example #2
Dental Laboratory Technician
Quest Diagnostics
- Received incoming specimens to process for 3rd shift Lab Techs to analyze.
- Performed daily maintenance, and ran QC at beginning of shift.
- Recalibrated instruments and took troubleshooting steps if the QC failed.
- Prepared human samples for processing and entered data into computer database.. Adhered to OSHA requirements as well as Communicable Disease training.
- Demonstrated compliance with OSHA and other safety standards and guidelines.
Work History Example #3
Dental Hygienist
Bright Now! Dental
- Helped with coronal and amalgam polishing, cementing temporary crowns and bridges, and took alginate impressions.
- Prepared patien for procedures, assist in restorative, crown prep, extractions, and root canals.
- Performed SRP's and placed Arestin when needed.
- Scheduled appointments, prepared bills, accepted payments, completed insurance forms, and maintained computerized records utilizing Dentrix software.
- Provided comprehensive patient dental hygiene care in a paperless clinic using Dentrix, digital x-ray and intra oral camera.
Work History Example #4
Dental Laboratory Technician
Lens Crafters
- Liaised with the Ohio Central Lab to fill orders that our lab was ill-equipped to handle.
- Managed phoning customers of product arrivals or delays, while adhering to HIPAA regulations.
- Created and processed lenses to fit customer prescription
- Verified received materials and handled troubleshooting of manufacturing defects from within the lab and from outside vendors.
- Maintained patient records in database to ensure HIPAA compliance.
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Add an education section to your resume
The education section should display your highest degree first.
Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.
Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:
Bachelor's Degree In Dental Assisting
Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN
2004 - 2007
Highlight your dental hygienist certifications on your resume
Certifications are a great way to showcase special expertise or niche skills. Some jobs even require certifications to be hired.
Include the full name of the certification, along with the name of the issuing organization and date of obtainment.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your dental hygienist resume:
- Dental Assistant (RDA)
- Certified Dental Technician
- Certified Dental Assistant (CDA)
- Infection Control Certification (CIC)
- Certified Preventative Functions Dental Assistant (CPFDA)
- Medical Assistant (MA)