Dental Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities: Dental assistants help in preparing the room for the patient. They provide information for the patients by answering any questions. They also sterilize and deliver the tools and instruments needed. They also work side by side to the dentist. They schedule appointments too. Also they do some of the patients x-rays.  

Salary: The average hourly pay in this industry is $15.06. The range of pay for an year is between $22,207 to $43,611. What can affect the difference of pay between dental assistants is their area, education, and also if they do over time.

Education: To become a dentist assistant is actually a short amount of time. People can get the education required through community college, vocational school, technical institutes, universities or dental schools. What you need to become a dental assistant is a post-secondary non-degree award.

Demand or need for this profession: According to Bureau statistics, there should be more than 58,000 job openings for dental assistants up to the year of 2024. This amounts to 18 percent employment growth. This growth is expected to go from 2014-2024.

  

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I would not like to be a dental assistants. It seems like a boring career to me. This career resembles lots to a dentist and as i said in my other report of dentists i wouldn’t choose this career. I wouldn’t be doing much work. I’d be doing more paperwork and such things more than the physical work which does not interest me.