Dental Assistants
Other titles : certified dental assistant, dental medicine technical assistant (health and social services network), preventive dental assistant, registered dental assistant
Details
Description :
Dental assistants assist dentists during the examination and treatment of patients and perform clerical functions. Dental assistants work primarily in dentists' offices, or they may be employed by government and educational institutions.
Main duties :
- prepare patients for dental examination and assist the dentist during the examination;
- sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment;
- prepare dental instruments and filling materials;
- educate patients concerning oral hygiene;
- schedule patient appointments and record dental procedures performed;
- invoice patients for dental services;
- order dental and office supplies;
- take and develop X-rays;
- polish teeth and clinical crowns and apply fluoride and sealant;
- take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts;
- fabricate temporary crowns and restorations.
Regions where this career
has the best propspects:
- Bas-Saint-Laurent
- Centre-du-Québec
- Montérégie
- Laurentides
- Lanaudière
- Laval
- Chaudière-Appalaches
- Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Outaouais
- Montréal
- Mauricie
- Capitale-Nationale
Training
Diploma of Vocational Studies (DVS)
Dental Assistance
Program lenght : less than 2 years
Program Objectives
To enable the students to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to make appointments, receive patients, prepare the necessary materials and assist the dentist in dispensing oral treatments; to advise patients regarding postoperative care; to perform tasks related to prevention and treatment planning, and the control of contamination and biomedical waste management; to perform routine administrative tasks; to make denture pieces and models in a laboratory.
Where this program is available