What is Dental Assisting?
Americans are prioritizing their oral health, and that means dental offices and clinics are actively looking for trained dental assistants who can help with administrative and patient care.
Dental assistants perform a wide variety of clinical tasks, including sterilizing dental instruments, setting up exam rooms, taking impressions, perform X-rays and lab tasks, and assisting chairside. Additionally, they also work at the reception desk, helping with keeping accurate dental records, scheduling appointments, ensuring billing and payment, and being a friendly and comforting presence for patients.
Dental assistants can choose to specialize in pediatric or orthodontics. Programs like ours also include Expanded Duty Dental Assistant training, a certification that allows you to take on additional duties like prepping and filling cavities, crown fabrication, and more.
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Our Dental Assistant Training Program
The objective of our Dental Assistant program is centered around graduating professional, job-ready students. We focus on teaching you chairside operatory, laboratory, and office skills, as well as expanded dental assisting functions, aka EDDA. While it’s not required for dental assistants be credentialed, Medical Career & Technical College believes that documentation from a third party is valuable and makes you more desirable and marketable to employers.
Medical Career & Technical College’s Dental Assistant program is recognized as an approved program with the American Medical Technologists (AMT) allowing its graduates to sit for National Certification as an RDA (Registered Dental Assistant). The College is accredited by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES).
When a dentist employs any assistant in Kentucky, their name must be reported annually to the Kentucky Dentistry Board and the employee is then considered “registered” on the Registry. This is NOT the same as being credentialed in the field by passing an academic program followed by national certification testing to become a Registered Dental Assistant.
What you will learn
We offer a unique structure where our students take only one course at a time, attending class just two days per week. Classes meet from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. on either a Mon/Wed or Tues/Thurs, depending on the class schedule for the term.
Program Length: 36 Weeks
Total Clock Hours: 636
Included courses:
- Dental Terminology
- Dental Assistant I
- Dental Assistant II
- Dental Assistant III
- Dental Assistant IV
- Dental Assistant Externship with EDDA
These classes cover topics that include dental ethics and law, oral health and nutrition, disease prevention, anatomy and physiology, exam and diagnostic techniques, caring for dental equipment, preparing patients, radiographic imaging, lab materials and procedures, business operating systems, and more.
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