Dental Assistant
Duties and responsibilities: Dental
Assistants may perform any of the following seating patients in the treatment
area, passing requested instruments to the dentist during dental procedures,
sterilization and preparation of instruments, taking impressions of teeth for
study models, polishing clinical crowns, and exposing and developing x-rays
Salary: $23,550 - $47,580
Education: They receive their formal education
through academic programs at community colleges, vocational schools, technical
institutes, universities or dental schools. Graduates of these programs usually
receive certificates. Although the majority of academic dental assisting
programs take nine to eleven months to complete, some schools offer accelerated
training, part time education programs or training via distance education.
Reflection: I would like to be a Dental
assistant because you can learn from what the dentist does while you’re helping
them also you can help the office to go along faster and tis not that bad of a
job.
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