Dental Assistant

Duties and responsibilities :  A dental assistant is someone that helps out the original doctor. He can also provide extra need for the dentist during a surgery. They help with the x-rays, taking blood pressure and with the patient's pulse. The Dental assistant sterilizes equipment. They can also take impressions of patients' teeth.

Salary: A dental assistant salary is around 34,500

Education: The education need to become a dental assistant is a Postsecondary non-degree award

Demand or need for this profession: There will be a great increase of jobs openings by the year 2024 so that means that there will be a need for this profession

Reflection: I don't really want to become a dentist assistant because they have to work with the peoples mouths and some people don't even brush their teeth and they stink.