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Dental Assistant provide different types of patient care, office duties, and laboratory work. They assist the Dental Operator and generally works in the background.

The limitation of their duties is often regulated by the local Dental Administration.

Training

Most programs take 1 year or less and leads to a Certificate or a Diploma. A 2 years programs offered in a Community College leads to an Associate Degree.

Without further education, advancement opportunities for Dental Assistant are limited. Some become Office Managers, Dental Assisting Instructors, Dental Product Sales Rep, or Insurance Claims Processors for Dental Insurance companies. Other go back to school to become Dental Hygienists.

What do they do?

Assistants work most of the time near the Dental Chair so they can arrange instruments, materials, and medications and hand them to the Dental Operator when needed. In the lab, they sterilize and clean instruments, they make casts of the teeth and mouth for impressions.

They polish removable appliances and make temporary crowns. They also perform office duties such as appointments, book keeping, organizes patient files, pay and send bills and so on...

Dental Assistant must wear gloves, masks, eyewear and protective clothing to protect themselves and their patients from infectious diseases.

These Professionals are part of the Dentistry family. All working as a team to make your visit pleasant, effective and relatively short.

Dental Assistants have their own Board Association "DANB" Dental Assisting National Board, which is recognized by the American Dental Association "ADA" as the national credentialing agency for those professionals.

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Orthodontist is a specialty in Dentistry. They prevent and treat mouth, teeth and jaw problems with braces, retainers and other devices.

Periodontist Is a specialist who treat the gums and the supportive structures of the teeth.

Credentials and Dental Care - This is crucial for you to know if you just move from another State. Where do you go for that?

Dental Schools have Graduate School Degree Programs for you to begin your study and specialty in if you choose to.

Oral-maxillofacial surgeon can do miracle for patients who have been in terrible situations like: Accident, Burns, Dog mauling in the face or deformities.

Endodontist Deals mostly with root canal.

Pediatric Dentist are for infants and children first. They promote Oral Health from infancy through the teens years.

Prosthodontist Does more than replacing teeth. He specializes in the construction of artificial devices designed to replace missing teeth and other parts of the oral cavity of the face.

Dental Public Health Works for the community. They are concerned with improving Dental Health of the population.

Dental Hygienists are responsible for helping patients keep their teeth and gums clean and disease free.

Dental Technicians are valuable members of the Dental Team. They create teeth after receiving a mold from the patient's teeth.

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