Dental Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities: Dental assistants may perform seating patients in the treatment area, passing requested instruments to the dentist during dental procedures, sterilization and preparation of instruments, tanking impressions of teeth for study models, polishing clinical crowns, and exposing and developing X-rays.

Salary: $34,500

Education: Dental assistants receive their formal education through academic programs at community colleges, vocational schools, technical institutes, universities or dental schools. Graduates of these programs usually receive certificates. Although the majority of academic dental assisting programs take nine to eleven months to complete, some schools offer accelerated training, part time education programs or training via distance education.

Reflection: I would want to be a dentist assistant because it is a short time of community college and they pay a dental assistant good and it would be good working like an assistant.