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Average Pay

Dental Assistants

$47,300/yr
Across the U.S.

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Career Outlook
Dental Assistants

Bright

New job opportunities
are very likely
in the future.

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Typical Training

Dental Assistants

Typical training
at entry is a

Postsecondary non-degree award

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      We found 116 tools and technologies for Dental Assistants.

      Dental Assistants Tools and Technology Profile

      Tools
      Air compressors
      • Air compressors

      Bands for dental matrix
      • Matrix bands

      Chemical or gas sterilizers
      • Chemiclaves

      Cosmetic dentistry curing lights
      • High-intensity lights
      • Light curing units

      Dental amalgamators
      • Amalgamators

      Dental articulators
      • Articulators

      Dental burs
      • Burs

      Dental cutting or separating discs
      • Dental cutting instruments

      Dental dam supplies
      • Molar clamps
      • Rubber dam clamp forceps
      • Rubber dam punches
      • Rubber dams

      Dental depth gauges
      • Apex locators

      Dental elevators
      • Root elevators

      Dental examination chairs
      • Dental chairs

      Dental filler contouring instruments
      • Filling instruments

      Dental film processors
      • Dental x ray film processors

      Dental finishing or polishing discs
      • Prophylaxis angles

      Dental finishing or polishing kits
      • Denture, acrylic and porcelain polishing kits

      Dental forceps
      • Cotton forceps
      • Extracting forceps
      • Splinter forceps
      • Tongue forceps

      Dental formers
      • Vacuum formers

      Dental handpieces
      • Dental handpieces
      • Electric endodontic handpieces
      • Electric general dentistry handpieces
      • Electric surgical handpieces
      • High-speed handpieces
      • Rotary handpieces
      • Slow-speed dental handpieces

      Dental hygiene instruments
      • Electronic calculus detectors

      Dental impression trays
      • Impression trays

      Dental instrument sharpening accessories
      • Instrument sharpening devices

      Dental laboratory air abrasion units
      • Air abrasion units

      Dental laboratory casting machines
      • Denture model presses

      Dental laboratory lathes
      • Bench lathes

      Dental laboratory model trimmers
      • Model trimmers

      Dental laboratory vacuum units
      • Computerized pressure/vacuum casting systems
      • Power vacuum mixers

      Dental lasers
      • Caries detection aids
      • Dental laser systems

      Dental material pluggers or tips
      • Amalgam carriers

      Dental matrices or sets
      • Posterior matrices

      Dental operatory retraction cords
      • Gingival retraction cords

      Dental probes or explorers
      • Dental explorers
      • Double-ended probes
      • Single-ended periodontal probes

      Dental procedure combination furniture or sets
      • Dental furniture units

      Dental pulp or vitality testers
      • Pulp testers

      Dental radiology films
      • Bitewing film holders

      Dental retainers
      • Dental retainers

      Dental saliva ejectors or oral suction devices
      • Evacuator systems
      • High-velocity evacuators
      • Saliva ejectors

      Dental scalers
      • Dental scalers

      Dental scissors
      • Collar scissors
      • Crown scissors

      Dental spatulas
      • Dental spatulas

      Dental syringe accessory kits
      • Needle holders

      Dental syringes or needles or syringes with needles
      • Aspirating syringes
      • Cartridge syringes
      • Needles

      Dental tooth separators
      • Orthodontic separators

      Dental tweezers
      • Dental tweezers

      Dental wedges or sets
      • Dental wedges

      Dental x ray apparatus parts or kits or accessories
      • X ray machine cones

      Dental x ray units
      • Dental x ray machines
      • Intraoral x ray equipment
      • Panoramic x ray equipment

      Dental x-ray bite blocks or wings or tabs
      • Bite blocks

      Dry heat or hot air sterilizers
      • Thermal disinfectors

      Electronic blood pressure units
      • Electronic blood pressure devices

      Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment
      • Electrosurgery units

      Medical gas cylinders or related devices
      • Oxygen tanks

      Medical radiation dosimeters
      • Radiation dosimeters

      Medical radiological shielding aprons or masks or drapes
      • Lead aprons
      • Protective shielding equipment
      • Thyroid collars

      Mercury blood pressure units
      • Manual blood pressure cuffs

      Orthodontic appliance clasps
      • Headgear

      Orthodontic band drivers or pushers or setters
      • Orthodontic band pushers
      • Orthodontic band slitters

      Orthodontic brackets
      • Orthodontic brackets

      Orthodontic pliers
      • Band seating pliers
      • Contouring orthodontic pliers
      • Dental crimping pliers
      • Dental pliers
      • Intraoral detailing pliers
      • Offset utility pliers
      • Orthodontic pliers
      • Straight utility pliers
      • Torqueing pliers

      Periodontal curettes
      • Gracey curettes
      • Universal curettes

      Personal computers
      • Personal computers

      Pulse oximeter units
      • Pulse oximeters

      Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
      • Autoclaves
      • Steam cleaning equipment
      • Steam sterilizers
      • Sterilizers

      Surgical clamps or clips or forceps
      • Hemostatic forceps

      Teeth cleaning devices
      • Air/water syringes

      Ultrasonic cleaning equipment
      • Ultrasonic sterilization units


      Technology
      Accounting software
      • Quicken

      Electronic mail software
      • Email software

      Internet browser software
      • Web browser software

      Medical software
      • Henry Schein Dentrix
      • Kodak Dental Systems Kodak SOFTDENT Practice management software PMS
      • Open Dental
      • Patterson Dental Supply Patterson EagleSoft
      • The Systems Workplace TDOCS

      Office suite software
      • Microsoft Office software

      Spreadsheet software
      • Microsoft Excel

      Word processing software
      • Word processing software