Dental Assisting Program: Levels 1–3

Advance your dental career with hands-on training in patient care, radiographs, polishing, nitrous oxide, and more.

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Dental Assisting Level 1: Foundations

Build a solid foundation of dental knowledge including terminology, instruments, patient care, and safety practices. Learn how to support patients with dental anxiety while assisting efficiently and maintaining confidentiality.

  • Format: Online instruction + in-office practice
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Dental Assisting Level 2: Clinical Skills

Take your learning further with radiographs, coronal polishing, specialties, dental instruments, and mixing materials. Apply what you learn online directly in your workplace for real-world experience.

  • Format: Online instruction + in-office practice
Register for Level 2
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Dental Assisting Level 3: Advanced Practice

Advance your career with training in nitrous oxide administration, dosage calculation, and fabricating temporary crowns and bridges. Gain confidence as you prepare for expanded responsibilities in the dental office.

  • Format: Online instruction + in-office practice
Register for Level 3

Explore Your Career

The Dental Assisting National Board (Dental Assisting National Board | DANB) is a great resource for furthering your career, finding a job in other states, learning state requirements, wage ranges, and a lot more!

If you are interested in learning about career opportunities in the Magic Valley, take a look below.

If you are interested in learning more about our Work-Based Learning Center resources explore your options below.

Learn More About Dental Assisting

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Transcript

Laly - A typical day for a dental assistant. It's pretty fast paced, so you have to be ready to go hit the ground running.

Jenny - For me it looks like usually greeting the patient and their parent. Because I work in pedes
and then taking X-rays and kind of building their confidence to trust us.

Dr. Kyle Christensen - One of the most important, parts of a dental assistant is communication.
Communication with the team here in the office. The doctor and the other assistants and, other team members.

Laly - And you have to be fast paced. You can't just be expecting to just go into an office, "Oh I'm
just going to sit behind a computer". No, you're doing a lot of different things. You have to multitask. Be a people person and be happy while you're doing it right.

Jacquelyn - The advice I would give someone is having really good communication. With all hygienists,
the doctor, the people in the front and your other assistants.

Kassidi - Advice I would give to someone is just get out there and maybe like job shadow,
see what there is because there's so many different like offices you can assist at. I worked at an orthodontist office. I worked at pedes. So there's tons of different options for whatever you may work well with.

Dr. Trevor Smith - Being a more rural area of Idaho, we do have, a dental assisting program, but only so many assistants can go there And so having an online program where they're actually getting they're getting the training of the dental terminology, sterilization, you know, OSHA all those things that, that we need to help a good dental
practice run is huge.

Jacquelyn - Being able to work hands on, I think is the most important thing. It helps you learn a lot, I think.

Jenny - I think it being online is awesome because I think it kind of pushes you if you really want to join this field. You're kind of forced to have to put that effort in.

Chris - And hands on is probably to me one of the best ways of learning,because you don't get the skills
until you actually do them.

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