Dental Assistant
Program Overview
Dental Assistant duties range from scheduling appointments and receiving patients to assisting chairside, performing laboratory functions, maintaining patient records, and practicing good communication techniques. Dental Assistants must be able to expose and process radiographs; fabricate diagnostic cast models; perform oral evacuation and instrument exchange; instruct patients in proper oral hygiene; assist in the selection, placement and removal of rubber dams, sutures and periodontal packs; prepare fabrication of temporaries; perform removal of temporaries; and function as an entry-level member of the dental health team.
Program Delivery
The Dental Assistant program is delivered in a blended format. Courses will be delivered entirely online, entirely on-ground or with an appropriate blend of both online and on-ground hours in the same course. Of the 800 program hours, a maximum of 400 course hours (50.0%) may be offered online.
Program Objectives
The program provides students with theoretical knowledge and practical skills that prepare them as entry-level chairside or front-office Dental Assistants.