Dental Assistant
Competency-based
ONET: 31-9091.00
1
Years
97
Skills
380h
Related instructions
Classroom instruction topics
- Dental Materials I
- Dental Materials II
- Infection Control
- Prevention and Nutrition in Dentistry
- Dental Radiography
- Advanced Dental Radiography
On-the-job training
- Ethics and Personal Appearance
- Proper use of vocabulary
- Proper use of grammar
- Care of Dental Equipment and Office
- Order supplies
- Cleaning
- Lubricating
- Maintenance
- Sterilization of fixed equipment
- Chair-side Assisting
- Adopting routine of dentist checklist
- Seat and prepare patients
- Arrange instruments
- Dental charting
- Dental history
- Instrument passing
- Assist with high velocity suction
- Passing medication prior to filling
- Mixing filling material
- Releasing patient
- Clean-up after patient leaves
- Set up for new patient
- Greeting new patient
- Dental Office Management
- Good organization
- Orderliness
- No idle gossip or distracting talk with others but patient
- Making appointments over telephone
- Use of pegboard bookkeeping
- Operation of telephone recorder
- Maintain professional dignity
- Dental Anatomy
- Tooth eruption
- Proper identification
- Know abbreviations for charting
- Know dental anatomy pathology
- Dental Pathology
- Includes all soft tissue intra and extra- oral
- Observe all external face features
- Note swellings
- Note scars
- Note pupils of eyes
- Note fingernail beds
- Note distended vessels
- Note blood pressure
- Note texture and color of skin
- Bacteriology and Sterilization
- Autoclave procedure
- Cold sterilization
- Cleaning of instruments
- Use of special chemicals
- Anesthesia
- Preparation of syringe-local
- Correct temperature
- Advice to patient to prevent self injury
- Observe for any hyper-reactions
- Dental Roentgenology
- Periapical film procedure
- Panolipse film procedure
- Developing film procedure
- Proper mounting of film
- Basic X-Ray interpretation - able to recognize
- Oral Hygiene of Pedondontra
- Tooth brush instructions
- Communications and psychological entertainment of patient
- Demonstration of instruments
- Diet and Nutrition
- Be able to supply patients with diet information
- Know carbohydrate chemistry and explain
- Orthodontra
- Recognize predisposing factors
- Suggest corrections
- Inform and illustrate
- Pharmacology
- Recognize basic dental drugs
- Know side effects
- Treatment of Emergencies
- Acquire professional assistance
- Know basic life support systems
- Know CPR basics
- Impression Material and Models
- Assist in impression taking
- Mix all impression material
- Pour models
- Behavioral Competencies
- Participation in team discussions/meetings
- Focus in team discussions/meetings
- Focus during independent work
- Openness to new ideas and change
- Ability to deal with ambiguity by exploring, asking questions, etc.
- Knows when to ask for help
- Able to demonstrate effective group presentation skills
- Able to demonstrate effective one-on-one communication skills
- Maintains an acceptable attendance record
- Reports to work on time
- Completes assigned tasks on time
- Uses appropriate language
- Demonstrates respect for customers, co-workers and supervisors
- Demonstrates trust, honesty and integrity
- Requests and performs work assignments without prompting
- Appropriately cares for personal dress, grooming and hygiene
- Maintains a positive attitude
- Cooperates with and assists co-workers
- Follows instructions/directions
- Able to work under supervision
- Able to accept constructive feedback and criticism
- Able to follow safety rules
- Able to take care of equipment and work place
- Able to keep work area neat and clean
- Able to meet supervisor's work standards
- Able to not let personal life interfere with work
- Adheres to work policies/rules/regulations
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