Dental Assistant Training

1. The dental clinic and who does what Your first day. The people, the rooms, the chair, and how to look ready for work.
2. Instrument names 1 — the examination set The four instruments on every tray, what each one is for, and how to set a basic tray.
3. Instrument names 2 — filling and cleaning instruments What the dentist asks for during a filling or a scaling, and what a bur is.
4. Handling and passing instruments How to pass an instrument so the dentist never looks away from the mouth — and how not to get hurt.
5. Washing, cleaning and sterilisation The most important thing you will do. Six steps, in order, every single time.
6. Looking after the expensive equipment The RVG sensor, the physiodispenser, the laser, the curing light and the compressor — and the mistakes that destroy them.
7. Suction and chairside basics Where to stand, which suction to use, and how to hold it without blocking the dentist.
8. 8 Talking to patients Greeting, seating, calming a frightened patient, handling children — and the words never to use.
9. Your safety and waste segregation PPE, what to do the moment a needle pricks you, and how clinical waste is sorted into bins.
10. 10 The clinic day — opening, between patients, closing Three checklists that make you look experienced from your first week.

1. Four-handed dentistry Where to sit, where instruments cross, and how to hand one over so the dentist never looks away from the mouth.
2. Dental materials and mixing The powders, pastes and cements you will mix every day — what each one is for, and how to get the mix right.
3. X-ray and RVG assistance Positioning the sensor, protecting the patient, and where you must be standing when the button is pressed.
4. Chairside for fillings and root canals The two commonest appointments in any clinic — what is handed over, in what order, and what must stay dry.
5. Chairside for extractions and minor surgery The forceps by name, what happens before and after, and the instructions the patient goes home with.
6. Impressions and lab coordination Taking a copy of the patient’s teeth, keeping it exactly the shape it was, and getting the case to the lab and back without a mistake.
7. 7 Front desk and records The phone, the appointment book, the medical history and the money — the work that decides whether the clinic runs smoothly or badly.
8. 8 Inventory and stock Knowing what the clinic has, what it is about to run out of, and what has quietly expired at the back of a cupboard.

1. 1 Sterilisation monitoring and audit How a clinic proves its autoclave really worked — the three levels of monitoring, the log, and what happens on the day a test fails.

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