Dental assisting can be hard if it’s not the right type of job for your personality—or if you’re unprepared to succeed in the position.
Earning a formal education helps you build the knowledge and skills to be comfortable in the role right from the start.
Learn more about what a dental assistant does
* Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook 2022. BLS estimates do not represent entry-level wages and/or salaries. Multiple factors, including prior experience, age, geography market in which you want to work and degree field, will affect career outcomes and earnings. Herzing neither represents that its graduates will earn the average salaries calculated by BLS for a particular job nor guarantees that graduation from its program will result in a job, promotion, salary increase or other career growth.