Dental Assistant

 Duties and responsibilities: As a dentist’s assistant, they organize patient’s appointments, they keep record of of the procedures that occur daily, and they also help the dentist’s by providing patient care. They may also take x-rays, sterilize the tools for the procedure, make sure the patient is comfortable, prepare the patient for the procedures, hand the dentist the proper tools, intrust patients on their oral hygiene, and talk to the patients about their billing. The state requirements say the amount a dentist’s assistant can do regarding putting topical anesthesia and other small procedures. Dentist assistants work alongside dentists at the dentist’s private practice.

 Salary: $35,000

 Education: 9-11 months of formal education through community college or technical school, complete state license requirements

 Demand or need for this profession: grow from 2014-2024 by 18%

 Reflection: I would not like to be a dentist’s assistant because I would rather not be an assistant at all, I would rather have my own private practice and not have to do simple things like having to sit on a chair and suck saliva out of patient’s mouths.