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Oral Surgeon resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what oral surgeons 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 oral surgeons should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Oral surgeon with specialist registration and experience across hospital, day surgery and private practice settings. Skilled in surgical extractions, implant placement, facial trauma reconstruction and the management of complex infections. Committed to safe, patient-centred care and to supervising the next generation of clinicians.
Key skills
- Surgical extractions and implant placement
- Facial trauma assessment and reconstruction
- Orthognathic surgery for jaw deformity
- Local and general anaesthesia administration
- Infection control and sterilisation protocols
- Medication management and post-operative pain control
- Cone beam CT (CBCT) imaging and interpretation
- Implant planning software
- Surgical navigation systems
- Dental practice management software
- Clinical supervision and registrar teaching
- Written communication and patient records
Experience: example bullet points
- Performed surgical extractions and dental implant placements for up to 15 patients per day, consistently maintaining low post-operative complication rates.
- Managed facial trauma cases in a hospital setting, including mandibular and zygomatic fractures, coordinating with emergency and radiology teams.
- Reconstructed jaw deformities through orthognathic surgery, improving patients' ability to eat, speak and breathe.
- Supervised three registrars in complex surgical cases, providing hands-on teaching and post-operative review.
- Reduced average waiting time for urgent surgical extraction from five days to two by streamlining triage and theatre scheduling.
- Implemented a checklist for surgical site marking and instrument counts, cutting minor instrument errors across the unit.
Education
Bachelor of Dental Surgery or Doctor of Dental Medicine, followed by postgraduate specialist training in oral surgery (such as a Doctor of Clinical Dentistry) and specialist 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 registration
- Dental Board of Australia
- specialist registration
- oral surgery
- dental implants
- surgical extractions
- facial trauma
- orthognathic surgery
- CBCT
- infection control
- NSQHS Standards
- Work Health and Safety (WHS)
- clinical governance
- Medicare provider number
- private health insurance billing
- practice management software
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.