Earn a fulfilling career as a Certified Dental Assistant! Certified Dental Assistants are educated, licensed and regulated members of an integrated dental healthcare team that provides oral care services to patients. The practice of dental assisting involves collaboration with patients and other healthcare professionals to achieve and maintain optimal oral health and overall health and well-being.

As a Certified Dental Assistant, you will work alongside and assist a Dentist. Specific duties include:

Preparing and maintaining dental instruments and equipment
Maintaining appropriate infection control
Assisting the dentist
Preparing dental materials such as dental composites, amalgams and cements
Providing patient education and comfort
Performing patient care procedures such as taking health histories; assisting in patient assessment; exposing of dental images; patient charting; treatment planning; polishing teeth and delivering preventative fluoride applications.
Carrying out office administration services, including management of dental records
To be successful as a dental assistant student and professional, the student requires:

a caring nature and interest in the well-being of others
excellent interpersonal skills
good time management skills
good eyesight, hearing, and hand-eye coordination. It is strongly recommended that students have an eye examination and obtain corrective eyewear if needed.
ability to accurately follow verbal and written directions
ability to manage a fast-paced, demanding, and stressful work environment
computer literacy especially experience with word processing and internet
the same standard of oral health that they encourage in their patients

Our graduates are career-ready and are highly employable. Certified dental assistants are employed in a variety of practice settings including:

Dental offices
Specialty practices such as children's specialist, orthodontics, or oral surgery
Hospital dental clinics
BC Cancer Agency
Community health clinics and public health facilities
Residential care facilities for seniors and the disabled
Employment opportunities also exist in education, research, sales and marketing of dental products, and dental insurance company administration.