dental assistant duties
February 21st, 2009 | by admin |Dental assistants are basically an extra set * of hands for the dentist or dental surgeon. Some of the dental assistant duties that an assistant will * be required to perform are: maintaining and preparing dental instruments, equipment and supplies; recording and collecting a patient’s health history; managing patients during dental procedures; transferring required * instruments from the tray to the dentist; preparing dental materials such as composites, amalgams and cements; knowing and * using dental procedure isolation techniques; handling dental charts; preventing and managing dental emergencies; managing and controlling dental inventory.