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Dental Prosthetist resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what dental prosthetists actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most dental prosthetists should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Registered Dental Prosthetist with experience in assessing patients and designing, manufacturing and fitting removable dental prostheses. Skilled in both traditional craft techniques and digital workflows, including CAD/CAM and intraoral scanning. Committed to patient comfort, infection control and collaborative care with dentists and allied health professionals.
Key skills
- Patient assessment and oral health evaluation
- Impression taking and intraoral scanning
- Design and manufacture of full and partial dentures
- Denture fitting, adjustment and repair
- CAD/CAM software (3Shape, exocad)
- Intraoral scanners (TRIOS)
- Milling equipment operation
- Infection control and sterilisation
- Dental practice management software
- Attention to detail
- Written communication
- Digital literacy
Experience: example bullet points
- Managed a caseload of up to 20 patients per week, providing full and partial dentures from assessment to final fit.
- Streamlined the repair process by introducing a digital scanning step, cutting turnaround from four days to two.
- Collaborated with dentists on complex cases, referring patients for specialist care when oral health issues were identified.
- Maintained infection control protocols in line with national standards, passing practice audits without issue.
- Trained two junior dental technicians in digital scanning and CAD/CAM design, improving workflow efficiency.
Education
Diploma of Dental Prosthetics (or Advanced Diploma) through a registered training organisation, followed by registration with the Dental Board of Australia via AHPRA.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- AHPRA
- Dental Board of Australia
- registered dental prosthetist
- Dental Prosthetist
- infection control
- sterilisation
- CAD/CAM
- 3Shape
- exocad
- TRIOS
- intraoral scanner
- denture
- partial denture
- full denture
- dental prosthetics
- practice management software
- CPD
- professional indemnity insurance
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.