Dental Assisting - Metropolitan Community College Area

Dental Assisting from Metropolitan Community College Area is a Campus Associate Dentistry degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. What is \\\'Dental Assisting? (dent)\\\' A dental assistant takes on significant responsibility as a member of the dental healthcare team, as they greatly increase the efficiency of the dentist in the delivery of qauliaty oral health care. The duties of a dental assistant are among the most comprehensive and varied in the dental office. Some specific tasks dental assistants may perform include: assisting the dentist during a variety of treatment procedures, taking and developing dental radiographs (x-rays), coronal polish, asking about the patient\\\'s medical history and taking blood pressure and pulse, serving as an infection control officer, developing infection control protocol and preparing and sterilizing instruments and equipment, helping patients feel comfortable before, during and after dental treatment, providing patients with instructions for oral care following surgery or other dental treatment procedures, such as the placement of a restoration (filling), teaching patients appropriate oral hygiene strategies to maintain oral health (e.g., tooth brushing, flossing and nutritional counseling), taking impressions of patients\\\' teeth for study casts (models of teeth), performing office management tasks that often require the use of a personal computer, communicating with patients and suppliers (e.g., scheduling appointments, answering the telephone, billing and ordering supplies), and assisting with and helping to provide direct patient care in all dental specialties, including orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics, oral surgery, endodontics and prosthodontics. View more details on Metropolitan Community College Area . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Dentistry courses.