Dental Assistants

Hygiene Team

Makayla, Assistant Team Leader
Makayla graduated from Kirkwood Community College from the Dental Assisting program and completed her Applied Science degree in 2018. She has been with the Cedar Rapids Smile Center since her internship in November 2017 and was employed in January of 2018. She has one sister and a twin brother. She enjoys hanging out with family and watching many tv shows. She got married to her husband Dakota in August of 2021.

Erica, Lab Coordinator
Erica has been a registered dental assistant for 17 years, expanded function certified. Prior to that, she was an office manager. For the last five years with the Cedar Rapids Smile Center, Erica has managed the orthodontics cases and provided lab technician skills for the office. She spends her free time with her family, boating, reading and working out.

Lindsey
Lindsey graduated from the dental assisting program at Kirkwood Community College and has since earned her Expanded Functions, DANB National Certification and Bachelors in Health Science through Bellevue University. She has been with the Cedar Rapids Smile Center since 2009. Lindsey enjoys reading, watching movies and spending time with family, friends and her husband Josh and daughter Rylee.

Sharon
Sharon has been with Cedar Rapids Smile Center since June 2008. She received her dental assisting training from Northeast Iowa Community College at Peosta and has been in the dental field since 1998. Sharon lives in Cedar Rapids with her boyfriends, Richard. She enjoys reading, scuba diving, traveling, spending time with family and friends and going to Iowa games.

Kenzie
Kenzie started with the Cedar Rapids Smile Center in January 2022. She graduated from Kirkwood Community College in December 2021 with an Associate’s Degree in Dental Assisting. She enjoys reading and watching movies in her free time.

Kylie
Kylie started with the Cedar Rapids Smile Center in March 2023. She is currently a dental assistant trainee while she waits to get into Dental Hygiene School at Kirkwood Community College. In her free time she enjoys hanging out with friends and family, working out and traveling.

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