Dental Assistant Job Outlook Will Make You Smile
The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that employment for dental assistants will grow by 36% from 2008 to 2018 much faster than the average of all occupations(2), thanks to population growth, rising emphasis on dental care, and the increasingly important role dental assistants play.
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Finish our Dental Assistant Program in as Few as 8 Months!
Just as professional dental assistants may enjoy a wide variety in their day-to-day functions, the eight modules of our Dental Assisting Diploma Program cover an array of topics like oral anatomy, oral radiology as well as other specific dental procedures and topics. Still, the entire dental assistant program can be completed in as few as 8 months.
The comprehensive dental assisting coursework culminates in a real-world externship where you can polish your skills and the hands-on practice will yield invaluable experience as well as transferable dental assisting skills.(3)
Dental Assisting: A Career That Helps Others
Dental assisting is more than just a growth industry, it's also a personally satisfying way to help improve people's quality of life by helping them better care for their teeth and gums. Dental assistants are critical to performing a number of fascinating and challenging functions, such as:
- Making impressions and casts of patients' teeth
- Creating temporary crowns
- Assisting a dentist with oral procedures and surgery
- Educating dental patients on preventive dentistry
- Taking dental x-rays
Put some teeth into your career aspirations with a diploma in Dental Assisting from Remington College.(1) Contact Remington College today to learn more about our dental assistant program. The Dental Assisting Program is available at the following Campuses:
(1) Employment upon graduation not guaranteed.
(2) http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos163.htm