Dental Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities:

        Dental assistant. Dental assistants perform a variety of patient care, office, and laboratory duties, and often work chair-side as dentists examine and treat patients. They make patients as comfortable as possible in the dental chair, prepare them for treatment, and obtain their dental records.

Salary:

        $23,550 to $47,580

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.

Reflection:

        I don’t think I would like to be a Dental Assistant. I wouldn’t like to be one because I personally do not like the dentist so this would be a bad job for me and it doesn’t interest me.