DENTAL ASSISTING - Diploma

If you want to work in a professional healthcare environment and would like to help patients receive quality dental care, Provo College's accredited Dental Assisting program may be perfect for you. Provo College will give you the education you need to begin your career with confidence. With the average graduation time of 12 months, you'll quickly get out of the classroom and into an in-demand dental assisting career.

Just how in-demand are Dental Assistants? The U.S. Department of Labor projects that Dental Assisting will be among the fastest growing careers through 2014, with a projected need for 226,000 new jobs over the next seven years. (U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2006).

Dental Assisting graduates are trained in:

• Clinical skills including operatory preparations, radiography certification, charting, and procedural setups
• Laboratory preparation of diagnostic casts, acrylic crowns and bridges, bleaching trays, and bite registrations
• Expanded functions such as polishing, sterilization, fluoride applications, and patient care
• Dental office management

Average program length:

Diploma in Dental Assisting - 12 months