Dental assistant

A dental assistant is a person who  helps out the dentist. They make your visit to your local dentist easier and faster.

Some of their duties and responsibilities are :

To help the dentist in treatment and procedures.

Taking the x-rays of your teeth.

Looking at the medical history of the patient.

Preparing the equipment and all that is needed for the dentist.

Give patients the awareness and the information of the things that will be work on with them and also make them feel comfortable.

Managing the office and giving directions to the patients.

Be able to communicate with patients and help advise them for additional treatment.

Salary : the dental assistant gets paid $34,500 annually.

Education: Get your formal education at a place like a community college.Once you graduate you will probably receive a certificate. This process takes about 9 to 11 months to complete. You must get your accreditation by passing an exam that test you on your knowledge and skills.

Demand or need for this profession: this job is said to grow 18% faster from 2014 to 2024.

Reflection: This job sounds sort of interesting but not enough to make me want to get a degree on it.I wouldn’t want to be a dental assistant because they do so much yet their credit for it is very little. Like when you go to the dentist you usually expect the dentist to do all the work but it’s actually the dental assistant that helps you. Most people don’t even know that their dental assistants, just dentist. So i wouldn’t want to get a degree on this because it’s not that interesting and the dental assistants don’t receive as much credit as the should.