Dental Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities      

A dental assistant is someone to help a dentist during his or her performance. Dental assistants have many jobs and tasks. Together, a dentist and a dental assistant make a powerful team. Dental assistant do certain things like taking their patients to their seating chair. They can also collect dental instruments and other tools that will be used during the procedure, for example a cavity take out or even a tooth removal. Dental assistants also take X-rays of their patients and take impressions of teeth for study modeling. Dental assistants sometimes take over the office handling patients with their schedule and filing recordings.

Salary

Median pay (annual): 34,500 USD (2012)

Median pay (hourly): 16.59 USD (2012)

Entry level education: Postsecondary non-degree award

Projected 10-year growth: 25% (2012)

Number of jobs: 303,200 (2012)

Education

There is no major part of education to get you this spot. Most of the dental assistant got their way up here with only a high school diploma. Dental assistants mainly get on the job kind of training. Other major dental assistants get more complex training.