Dental Hygienist Resume Template
For a dental hygienist resume, we recommend Clinical Clean: Calm teal accent, high legibility sans — built for nursing, allied health, and clinical roles where credentials need to stand out.
Why this template fits a dental hygienist resume
A dental hygienist resume needs to prove clinical precision and patient comfort, backed by a real license — Clinical Clean keeps the focus on that with a clean accent-bar section style that reads clearly to both a hiring manager and the ATS software screening for Dental cleanings & scaling and Patient assessment.
All 25 Rezumz templates are single-column and ATS-safe by default — this one is just the best starting point for this specific field. You can switch templates any time while editing.
What to put in the template
Order the sections as summary, work experience, skills, then education and certifications. Put your most recent and most relevant role first. Keep it to one page unless you have a long career.
Skills to fill into the skills section
Must-have: Dental cleanings & scaling, Patient assessment, X-ray imaging, Infection control, Patient education.
If you have them: Dentrix/Eaglesoft, Local anesthesia certification, Periodontal charting.
Example bullet points to copy the shape of
- Performed an average of 8-10 dental cleanings and periodontal assessments daily while maintaining a 100% sterilization-protocol compliance record
- Educated patients on oral hygiene and treatment plans, contributing to a 15% increase in accepted treatment recommendations
- Trained 2 new hygienists on practice-specific charting and X-ray procedures during onboarding
Replace the figures with your own. The layout does the formatting, but the bullets do the convincing.
Does the template matter to an ATS?
Less than people think. Every Rezumz template is single-column with real text, so applicant tracking systems read it correctly. What matters more is that the keywords above appear in your skills and in your bullets.