Straightening teeth, correcting bites, and helping people grow their confidence is an awesome daily reward for orthodontists and their dental assistants. Every day, orthodontic dental assistants will take radiographs, help place and remove braces, replace rubber bands on braces, and help answer patient’s questions about their braces. Helping patients straighten their smiles or have a better experience chewing their food is extremely rewarding as a dental assistant! Every day is a positive experience at an orthodontic dental clinic in Alaska.

General chair side assisting in Pediatrics is very similar to assisting with general dentistry. You’ll prepare the rooms with materials before the patient arrives and supply the dentist with the materials and tools throughout the procedure. Overtime, you’ll memorize each procedure, each dentists’ preferences for hand pieces, pace, and methods, and you’ll become a great chair side dental assistant.

After cleaning a patient’s teeth or performing a procedure, it is the dental assistant’s job to clean up the carts, tables, chairs, and counters. You’ll collect all of the used hand pieces and drop them off in the clinic’s ultrasonic cleaner to begin the sterilization process. After cleaning up a room, you will set it up for the next appointment. After the last appointment, you’ll close the room by wiping down the chairs, carts, and counters once more and performing other deep cleaning routines. Most clinic’s floors, windows, and trash will be cleaned by an after-hours crew, so you won’t need to worry about cleaning the entire clinic; just the expensive equipment you have been entrusted with.