Dental Assistant

Duties and responsibilities:

·        Seating patients in the treatment area.

·        Passing requested instruments to the dentist during dental procedures.

·        Sterilization and preparation of instruments.

·        Taking impressions of teeth for study models.

·        Polishing clinical crowns.

·         Exposing and developing x-rays.

Salary:35,000

Education: a unlicensed dental assistant does basic stuff compared to the other licensed assistants. In order to  become a dental assistant u must be on the California dental board and it must be approve for California dental practice act. You must also have a California dental board approved from infection control and you must also have an AHA or an ARC.