Dental Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities: Dental assistant perform many tasks requiring both inter personal and technical skill. They assist dentist during a variety of treatment procedures, they take dental radio graphs (x-rays), and they take impressions of teeth for study casts along with many other things.

Salary: $40,000- $50,000

Education: To become a dental assistant you must graduate a university, a vocational school, a technical school, or a dental school. You must also be accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation. They must also be certified by the Dental Assisting National Boards.

                                           

Reflection: I would not like to become a dental assistant because it doesn’t seem like the type of job that I see myself doing in the future.