A Career As A Dental Assistant

I want to be a dental assistant focusing on orthodontia. Usually when I go to the orthodontist I don't see the doctor first I see the assistant. After the assistant takes off my rubber bands the doctor usually comes over and tells the assistant what to do to my braces. Usually the assistant changes wires, rubber bands, tightens wires, and just about everything else. I choose this career because I want to change people's lives and how they look at themselves when they smile. Teeth are one of the main points of self confidence. Before I can become a dental assistant I have to go to a trade school. Then I can go find an office to work at to start my career.

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Education to become a dental assistant is very general and

Dental assistants with advanced certification or training will likely have the best job prospects.” (“Dental Assistants”). This job comes with good benefits and also a good salary. Dental assistants that have the best certification get the best spots in the workplace which calls for better benefits.

Dental assistants mainly help as BLS states, “Dental assistants provide support to dentists as they work on patients.” (“Dental Assistants.”). Dental assistants help the doctor work on the patient's mouth. Sometimes the doctor tells the assistants what to do and the assistant does most of the work and the doctor will come back after the work is done to check the patient's mouth.

Being a dental assistant has good opportunities and BLS states, “Job opportunities for dental assistants are expected to be good. Dental assistants with advanced certification or training will likely have the best job prospects.” (“ Dental Assistants”). Opportunities for advancement in this work field are better with the higher rank of certification. The job opportunities are expected to be good in the field of work so therefore dental assistants will make good money and have good

3-D scanning has helped improve orthodontics a lot with finding the problem and being able to understand the problem better. Also it can help see everything in your mouth that a regular x-ray cannot see.

Orthodontics could completely change in the future as this article states, “In the next fifty years, we might be looking at technology that helps teeth grow in straighter, instead of simply trying to straighten them once they have grown in.” (“What Orthodontics Might Look Like In 50 Years?”). New ideas of how to improve the process of orthodontics is remarkable because the ideas get better and better. Hopefully in the future there will be a way to make teeth grow in straight instead of wasting time with braces and have to spend all the money and time on them.

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