Over the past several months a group of individuals have set upon a path to change their lives by becoming dental assistants through the Dental Assistant Training Program. The free program, an ...

Service members and family members are learning to do medical charting, conduct dental exams, and help with fillings and sealants thanks to a dental assistant training program here. Ten students are ...

The seven-week course, beginning March 23, addresses a regional shortage of dental assistants and feeds graduates directly into local dental offices.

A dental assisting program at Franklin County Career and Technology Center offers high school students hands-on training. Students learn various skills, including taking x-rays, sterilization, and ...

The IRC in Atlanta’s Career Development and Adult Education programs, in collaboration with Gwinnett Dental Career Academy (GDCA), recently graduated a second cohort of three former refugees—all young ...

When I finished school, I decided I didn’t want to go to college, so I thought I should get an apprenticeship. It’s a really hands-on job involving making dental appliances like retainers and dentures ...

Boise Dental Assistant School will open this spring in Meridian, offering a 12-week dental assistant program in ...

Lakeshore College in Cleveland has opened a new dental clinic costing nearly $2 million. The clinic aims to address the shortage of dental hygienists and assistants in the lakeshore area. Funding for ...

Graduation rates for dental hygiene and dental assistant students have declined, according to a dental education program enrollment and graduation report from the ADA Health Policy Institute (HPI).

Dental assistants are often the unsung heroes of the practice. A dental assistant who is empowered and engaged every day can make a difference between the practice barely hitting its numbers and the ...