We congratulate you on deciding to learn the career of dental assisting and front desk operations. This course will give you textbook knowledge that would make you a valuable asset to any dental team. Please understand there are many ways to learn and you will benefit the most from applying and beginning your career in dental assisting as soon as possible upon completion of this program. This program is introductory in nature but you will learn a great deal of valuable information. You will find multimedia videos as well as DVD style recordings. The DVD recordings provide a review of the course information provided in the text. Some of these videos are vintage in nature and are meant to show you how far dental offices and technology has improved. Please view the DVD videos and understand that there are new technological advancements such as text messaging, high-speed internet, tablets, and advanced cell phone technology.
Let's review the subjects:
Dental Assisting: The Basics
Dental Anatomy
Dentistry: An Overview
Dental Equipment, Instruments and Procedures
Dental Materials- Supplies
Protected Health Information, Digital patient record management, and Dental Charting
Infection Control and Dental Emergencies
Business Administration
Dental Insurance
Collection Policy and Financial Arrangements
This series divided up into individual sections termed Modules: these modules provide a step by step learning of each of the 10 subject areas.
We recommend you learn at your own pace and estimate this will take 12 weeks to learn and prepare for the Quiz at the end of each section. It is required that you pass each quiz with a score of 80%. This will allow you to leave this program when completed with confidence that you have succeeded in learning the information above the standard. Enjoy and let your learning journey begin.
Dr. Wright began his interest in dentistry when he was young, by observing his father practice as a Periodontist (gum specialist) . As he grew older he had a natural sense of helping others, especially those with discomfort. Dr. Wright is quite fond of science and dentistry and dentistry allows him to help others as well as apply scientific...