As chairside assistants, Intra Oral Dental Assistants are expected to receive and prepare patients for treatment; sterilize, prepare and set out dental instruments and materials; process x-rays; assist dentists during dental procedures; record dental procedures performed; educate patients; polish clinical crowns and apply fluoride; apply dental dams, pit and fissure sealants, desensitizing agents, topical anesthesia, acid etch materials and cavity bases and liners; take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts; apply and remove matrices and wedges; remove sutures; place and fabricate temporary crowns and restorations; and expose radiographs (x-rays).

Dental assistants may also take an administrative assistant role where they will be required to answer telephone calls and/or co-ordinate appointment schedules.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND WORK

• dental offices
• community health centres
• educational institutions
• clinics

Job Titles and Oppurtuinites

• CERTIFIED DENTAL ASSISTANT
• CERTIFIED INTRA ORAL DENTAL ASSISTANT
• CHAIRSIDE DENTAL ASSISTANT
• DENTAL AIDE
• DENTAL ASSISTANT DENTAL CLINICAL ASSISTANT
• INTRA ORAL DENTAL ASSISTANT
• LICENSED DENTAL ASSISTANT
• PREVENTIVE DENTAL ASSISTANT
• REGISTERED DENTAL ASSISTANT