Dental assisting offers a variety of challenges and rewards for career-minded individuals. From simple tooth cleaning to oral surgery and cosmetic reconstruction, dentistry is a wide and varied field — and the dental assistant is a key part of the professional services team.
Everest College of Business, Technology and Health Care now offers an Intra-Oral Level II Dental Assistant career education program at its campus in Newmarket, Ontario. This 10-month-long program qualifies graduates to be eligible to write the certification exam through the Ontario Dental Assistants Association (ODAA).
Two Levels of Responsibility
Everest – Newmarket’s Intra-Oral Level II career education program combines chairside assistant preparation with the more advanced Level II training. Chairside assistant duties normally include:
- Preparing treatment rooms
- Assisting dentist with the selection of dental apparatus
- Preparing dental materials
- Sterilizing dental equipment
- The more advanced Intra-Oral Level II responsibilities often include:
- Handling dental radiography and impressions for study models
- Applying pit and fissure sealants, topical anesthetics and desensitizing agents
- Tooth polishing
- Oral hygiene and dietary instruction
Courses are taught by instructors who are former professional Intral-Oral (Level II) Dental Assistants. They know not only the academic side of dental assisting, but also how the real world works and what students can expect when they go to work in an actual dentist’s office.
About the Everest College-Newmarket Campus
The Everest College – Newmarket campus is in the Tannery Mall at 465 Davis Drive, approximately one mile west of Highway 404 in central Newmarket, Ontario. The campus has ample off-street parking. If taking public transportation, the campus is on the David Drive metro bus route as well as adjacent to the Newmarket GO Transit commuter train station. Everest College – Newmarket is close to numerous daycare centres, restaurants, shopping and other conveniences.
For more information about the Intra-Oral Level II Dental Assistant program or other career education programs, contact Everest College – Newmarket today!
Financial assistance may be available for those who qualify.
