A dental assistant’s duties include hands-on work with dental patients, assisting the dentist, and/or performing clerical functions in a dental clinic. Depending on an individual’s certification and goals, any of these are possible job tasks. If an individual would like hands-on work in the dentist’s office, their duties may include prepping the patient for a particular operation; this particular duty would involve knowledge of the teeth and most dental procedures. The dental assistant would then assist the dentist in performing the procedure, and do such things as handing the dentist the required instruments. Becoming a dental assistant usually involves working one-on-one with the dentist, requires the ability to multi-task and has excellent communication skills. Enroll today, for a dental career, at the Dental Staff School.

photo-21

Tags:

Comments are closed