Dental Assisting

Akron Institute

Minneapolis

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A top growth career in the booming
field of healthcare.

Dental assistants now play a key role in dental offices across the country. As the demand for dental services continues to grow, these professionals are being called on to handle a broader range of responsibilities. Working alongside a dentist, their patient care work includes:

• Handling instruments and operating dental equipment
• Sterilizing instruments and equipment
• Taking dental x-rays and processing the film
• Removing sutures
• Applying topical anesthetics to gums or cavity-preventive agents to teeth
• Placing rubber dams on the teeth to isolate them for individual treatment

In addition, these professionals can also be involved in office-related tasks such as scheduling and confirming appointments, maintaining treatment records, handling patient payments and ordering supplies and other materials.

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Dental Assisting Programs.

A great opportunity in patient care and support.

Dental Assistants who work beside dentists must remain alert and focused while standing on their feet most of the day. They need to aid the dentist while also making sure the patients are calm and comfortable.

A career as a dental assistant would be right for you if you:

• Are very precise and detail oriented
• Enjoy helping others
• Have strong visual/spatial abilities
• Have good communication and people skills
• Work well as part of a team
• Are interested in teeth and promoting oral health