A free dental hygienist résumé example, and the recall list on it
One complete dental hygienist résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.
— a full list is the job. a returning list is the result.

A hygienist's value to a practice is measurable in three ways and most résumés for the job describe none of them. This example is written out in full so you can read the measurable version, then put through the tools here so you can see what software takes from it. The candidate is invented.
The example, in full
An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.
Sigrun Ballantyne-Oduya
Dental Hygienist
Oslo, Norway · [email protected] · +47 22 55 01 47
Summary
Dental hygienist with nine years in general and periodontal practice, working on recall, periodontal charting and the patients who stopped attending. Carries a recall list of 800 and 14 appointments a day.
Experience
Senior Dental Hygienist · Frognerdal Dental Practice, Oslo · 2020 to present
- Treated 14 patients a day across 5 surgeries and carried a periodontal recall list of 800 patients without a waiting list.
- Raised recall attendance from 62% to 81% by rewriting the reminder sequence into 3 contacts across the 4 weeks before appointments.
- Completed 1 100 periodontal charts a year and referred 90 cases to the periodontist with a written baseline for each one.
- Mentored 4 newly qualified hygienists through their first 2 years and watched each one reach a full list within 6 months.
- Rebuilt the instrument cleaning routine for 5 surgeries and cut turnaround by 30% without adding an hour to the nurse rota.
Dental Hygienist · Lindeberg Tannhelse, Bergen · 2016 to 2020
- Ran a full list of 12 patients a day in a practice of 3 surgeries and held cancellations under 4% for 3 years.
- Delivered 120 lessons in oral health to 400 school pupils over 4 years and left each school a written plan for repeats.
- Charted 900 patients a year for periodontal disease and brought 140 of them into an active treatment plan within 3 months.
- Trained 3 dental nurses on periodontal charting support and cut appointment overruns by 70% across a full year of lists.
- Managed the recall diary for 1 400 patients and cut the proportion overdue by more than 6 months from 24% to 9%.
Dental Assistant · Lindeberg Tannhelse, Bergen · 2014 to 2016
- Supported 4 dentists through 18 appointments a day and prepared every surgery and instrument tray before the first patient arrived.
- Processed dental images for 30 patients a week and logged each exposure against the record on the same working day for 2 years.
- Ordered consumables for 3 surgeries and cut monthly stock spend by 18% by reordering against real use instead of habit.
- Recorded 2 000 treatment entries a year in the practice system and matched every entry to its charge across 2 years without a billing query.
- Prepared the surgery for 2 emergency sessions a day and kept the emergency drug kit checked on 500 consecutive working days.
Education
Bachelor of Dental Hygiene · Nordmarka University College, Oslo · 2013 to 2016
Skills
periodontal therapy, scaling and root planing, periodontal charting, radiography, oral health education, infection control, recall management, local anaesthesia, patient records, mentoring
Languages
Norwegian · native · English · C1 · German · B1
Certifications
Helsedirektoratet authorisation · 2016
Local anaesthesia certificate · 2018
List, recall, referral
Fourteen patients a day across five surgeries. A periodontal recall list of 800. Eleven hundred periodontal charts a year with ninety cases referred to the periodontist. Those three lines describe a clinical practice at the level a principal is buying.
The referral count is the one to notice. It says this hygienist recognises what sits outside their scope and passes it on, which is the quiet professional judgement a practice is actually paying for.
The recall line is a business result
Recall attendance from 62% to 81% after the reminder sequence was rewritten. Every practice principal has a view about the recall list, and a hygienist who has moved one is making a commercial argument without writing a commercial sentence.
The decontamination line does the same for the surgery: instrument turnaround down 30% after the routine was rebuilt. Infection control is normally described as a duty, and here it is described as something that got better.
Skills for a dental hygienist résumé, grouped
Sigrun's skills group into clinical treatment, practice systems and patients. Clinical: periodontal therapy, scaling and root planing, periodontal charting, radiography, local anaesthesia, infection control. Practice: recall management, patient records. Patients and team: oral health education, mentoring. A practice owner reads recall management as a business skill as well as a clinical one.
If you work across several practices, a line about each list's size belongs in experience rather than skills. In the free résumé builder you can group skills your own way, and authorisation stays in certifications.
From dental assistant to senior hygienist
A dental assistant's résumé proves chairside reliability: sessions supported, instruments turned round, records kept. The Lindeberg assistant role begins there. The hygienist role adds your own list: patients seen, periodontal outcomes, referrals made.
Senior lines add the practice around you: recall rates you improved, colleagues mentored, a protocol you introduced. The recall line is a business result, so give it a figure. The guide to quantifying achievements helps count clinical work.
How it reads and scores
The import review read three dated roles with five achievement lines under each, one degree, ten skills, three languages, and the authorisation stored as a certification with its year. The ATS checker scored it 99 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 2 points short and achievement quality 1 point short: 100 × 30% for parseability, 100 × 30% for completeness and 97 × 40% for content. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied here, and the five points it withheld went to one rule. How our examples are made explains the import review and the scoring behind these figures.
What this example leaves off
No patient information, no clinical photographs and no list of instrument brands. A principal is reading for list size, recall behaviour and registration, and a page that opens with equipment reads as a page written by somebody who has not run a list.
Short course lists are left off too. One registration with a year and an honest description of the periodontal work is worth more than eight afternoon courses, and it leaves room for the recall figure that actually makes the case.
What to change for your own
Change the setting. Corporate practice, community dental services, orthodontic practice and hospital periodontology all use this shape with different vocabulary. Then put your own list size, recall figures, charting volumes and referral counts in.
Keep the registration with its year, and keep the education sessions if you do outreach, because a practice with a school programme reads that line closely. The guide on certifications covers placement. The design gallery holds 37 layouts, and the medical assistant example, the physiotherapist example and the laboratory technician example sit beside this one.
Write yours beside it
Opens the builder with Sigrun's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Placard design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.
Use this exampleCheck a résumé insteadQuestions
- Is Sigrun Ballantyne-Oduya a real hygienist
- No. She is invented for this page, and so are Frognerdal Dental Practice and Lindeberg Tannhelse. Every figure was written to show a shape.
- What is the strongest line on a hygienist's page
- Recall attendance. Moving it from 62% to 81% is a direct effect on a practice's income and on periodontal outcomes at the same time, and very few hygienists write it down.
- How should list size be described
- Patients a day and surgeries, plus the recall list if you hold one. Fourteen a day across five surgeries with a periodontal recall list of 800 tells a principal exactly how the practice runs.
- What did the checker score it
- 99 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 2 points short and achievement quality 1 point short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 97 × 40% for content. The writing check beside it scored 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied, and the 443 readable words clear the volume rule's full band at 250.
- Does registration go on the page
- Yes, as a certification with its year. Registration and authorisation are the first filter in every clinical application, and they belong in their own section rather than inside a sentence.
- Which design is this rendered in
- Placard, one of the eight layouts shown as the ATS family. The eight were chosen on 2026-09-14 from a measurement of all 37 designs: each one exports a PDF whose text layer scores exactly what the pasted text scores, on both test documents, in one column, with the reading order kept and no graphics. Its chip labels and light name row keep three dated roles legible on one page.
Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 22 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.