Dental Assistant

Duties and responsibilities:

Some responsibilities of the dental assistant are to Prepares treatment room for patient by following prescribed procedures and protocols. Prepares patient for dental treatment by welcoming, comforting, seating, and draping patient. Provides information to patients and employees by answering questions and requests. Provides instrumentation by sterilizing and delivering instruments to treatment area; positioning instruments for dentist's access; suctioning; passing instruments. Provides materials by selecting, mixing, and placing materials on instruments and in the patient's mouth. Provides diagnostic information by exposing and developing radiographic studies; pouring, trimming, and polishing study casts.

Salary:

$34,500 dollars per year

Education:

There are no formal education requirements for entering a career in dental assisting. Some assistants have a high school diploma and only receive on-the-job training; however, postsecondary pprograms offer more comprehensive career training. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were more than 285 dental assisting education programs approved by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) in 201. Other kind of requirements for the assistant h licensed dentists before, during and after dental work. They prepare patients for procedures, record medical histories, take x-rays and prepare dental equipment. Becoming a dental assistant entails some form of training and, in many states, licensure and national certification.

Reflection :

This is a important career in the study of the medicine , the assistant is a like the right hand of the dentist he or her help in all the steps to care and attendant the people that feel sick or have a problems with their teeth , I will be a good assistant