Dental Assistant Career Essay
I want to pursue in the career of becoming a Dental Assistant. “Dental Assisting is forecast to be one of the fastest growing healthcare occupations in the coming years. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of dental assistants is projected to grow 18% from 2014 to 2024, much faster than the average for all occupations.”Many jobs look easy until you have been behind the scenes. When you go to a dental office; it seems as though you wait to be brought back, only to wait longer to start your visit. While shadowing a Pediatric Dental Assistant, I have come to learn that Dental Assistants have more on their plate than walking the patient to their chair. Dental Assisting is a job for people that are unyielding because they
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The average day, start out by organizing and taking the dental tools, such as the mouth mirrors and probes, out of the sterilizing machine. Here is some more things they have to do throughout their today, “assisting the dentist during a variety of treatment procedures, taking and developing dental radiographs (x-rays), asking about the patient's medical history and taking blood pressure and pulse, serving as an infection control officer, developing infection control protocol and preparing and sterilizing instruments and equipment, helping patients feel comfortable before, during and after dental treatment, providing patients with instructions for oral care following surgery or other dental treatment procedures, such as the placement of a restoration (filling), teaching patients appropriate oral hygiene strategies to maintain oral health, taking impressions of patients' teeth for study casts (models of teeth), performing office management tasks that often require the use of a personal computer, communicating with patients and suppliers (e.g., scheduling appointments, answering the telephone, billing and ordering supplies), helping to provide direct patient care in all dental specialties, including orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics and oral surgery.” Whether if they have to be in hygiene or operative can determine what they have to do for their job
The average day, start out by organizing and taking the dental tools, such as the mouth mirrors and probes, out of the sterilizing machine. Here is some more things they have to do throughout their today, “assisting the dentist during a variety of treatment procedures, taking and developing dental radiographs (x-rays), asking about the patient's medical history and taking blood pressure and pulse, serving as an infection control officer, developing infection control protocol and preparing and sterilizing instruments and equipment, helping patients feel comfortable before, during and after dental treatment, providing patients with instructions for oral care following surgery or other dental treatment procedures, such as the placement of a restoration (filling), teaching patients appropriate oral hygiene strategies to maintain oral health, taking impressions of patients' teeth for study casts (models of teeth), performing office management tasks that often require the use of a personal computer, communicating with patients and suppliers (e.g., scheduling appointments, answering the telephone, billing and ordering supplies), helping to provide direct patient care in all dental specialties, including orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics and oral surgery.” Whether if they have to be in hygiene or operative can determine what they have to do for their job