These are the average number of years it takes to complete a dental assisting program.
What is 2 years?
This specialty is concerned with the prevention of oral disease and the diagnosis and treatment of oral disease in children from birth through adolescence.
What is Pediatric Dentistry?
These are the standards of moral principle or right and wrong.
What are "ethics"
This is an area of dental assisting involving attendance to seminars to upgrade skills in front office management, computer technology, marketing and accounting.
What is a dental receptionist/dental practice management assistant?
These are the laws that govern dentistry.
What is "dental jurisprudence?"
This defines the period of time in which legal action can take place.
What is the statute of limitations?
This board provides a means for competent, qualified dental assistants to obtain credentials by passing a comprehensive written exam.
What is DANB (The Dental Assisting National Board Inc.)?
This specialty is concerned with the diagnosis, supervision, guidance and correction of malocclusion.
What is "Orthodontics"
These are the skills and functions considered to be above the normal scope of dental assisting.
What are expanded functions?
This protects individuals who do not seek payment but they give medical assistance to the injured.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
This is a court order mandating that an individual appear at a time and date with a specific reason to testify.
What is a subpoena?
Who is Lucy B. Hobbs Taylor?
This was the first dentist known to have hired a female to replace a male assistant.
Who is Dr. C. Edmund Kells?
This organization or specialty promotes dental health through organized community efforts.
What is "Dental Public Health".
This is Latin for "the act speaks for itself."
What is "res ipsa loquitur"?
Respondeat Superior refers to this person, being held responsible for any illegal acts committed by him/herself and all other members of the dental staff.
Who is "The dentist"