Credit Hours A clinical practice learning experience designed to increase dental assisting skills to job-entry level competency.
Emphasis is placed on visiting dental specialty offices.
This experience provides an opportunity for advanced skill development such as expanded function skills. Basic dental assisting tasks Infection control and professionalism Appointments and recall, insurance forms, business correspondence, telephone and computer communications, office records and inventory control. Demonstrate a professional appearance according to the dental assisting program orientation manual. Perceive the clinical needs of the patient and the dental team. Perform each assigned operative and laboratory procedure to the satisfaction of the participating dentist and supervising instructor according to the evaluation form.