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A Dental Assistant’s Guide to Helping Patients Overcome Dentist Anxiety
If youa��re considering a career as a certified dental assistant, you understand the importance of keeping smiles healthy. And caring for teeth is a lifelong process, involving both home care and dentist visits. However, booking regular appointments can inspire fear and worry in some people, even long after theya��ve lost their baby teeth. New research shows that about 50 per cent of Canadian adults suffer some degree of dental fear, with about 5 per cent
A Look at Academic Integrity During Dental Hygiene Training
I came across an interesting article ?Promoting Academic Integrity: Are We Doing Enough In it, the article provides perspectives on atopic that continually pervades and negatively impacts the academic world: plagiarism. The CADH student handbook describes plagiarism as ?using another individual’s work, in any form, and presenting it as one’s own without acknowledging the author of the original thought, idea, data, language, etc.? (CADH 2015, p. 22). As an educator and administrator for over 10
Dealing with Stress in School
As we near the end of the academic level, students are working towards meeting the requirements for the session. It is therefore not surprising that students may be experiencing some anxiety within these last few weeks. This anxiety can manifest as a physiological (sweating, inability to breathe), cognitive (lack of focus) and/or emotional (agitation, frustration) manner (Bledsoe and Baskin 2015). To help students deal with stress, Bledsoe and Baskin recommend the following (A�4): Educate yourself
A Dental Assistant’s Guide to Infection Control
Dental assistants are dental health professionals who work closely with patients under the supervision of a dentist. They are responsible for assisting dentists with a wide range of dental procedures, including: Placing and removing rubber dams Mechanically polishing the coronal portion of teeth Whitening the teeth using tray-based systems Preparing and applying pit and fissure sealants Taking preliminary impressions of teeth for study models Intraoral dental assistants and their tools often come into close contact
Find the Importance of Teamwork in Dental Hygienist School
You may have heard the saying ?No man/woman is an island.? The same can be said when providing dental hygiene care for a client. Though the treatment aspect of dental hygiene (the actual scaling for example) is completed by the dental hygienist, he/she is part of a bigger team, all for the best interest of the client. Within the dental practise there is one team on which the dental hygienist plays; collaborating with the dentist
Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Successful Dental Hygienist?
One of the major rewards of pursuing a dental hygienist career is that you will become a valued member of an oral healthcare team. Although both dentists and dental hygienists work together to ensure their patients have good oral health, a hygienist is typically responsible for performing a majority of the services during a routine check-up. Some of these include: taking and developing x-rays removing plaque from teeth applying fluoride treatments educating patients on good
Teeth Whitening Home Remedies to Share After Dental College
Everyone knows that there are plenty of procedures that can be performed by a dental professional to achieve a brighter, whiter smile. And while take-home and in-office whitening procedures have both been proven to provide optimal results, not many people are willing to shell out the $200 to $1000 to have these treatments done. Certified dental assistants know that there are alternatives to some of these costly methods. In fact, individuals can actually achieve similar
How Alcohol Impacts Our Teeth: An Overview For Dental Assistants
On a night out with friends, the last thing we’re probably thinking about is our teeth. Instead, we worry about alcohol’s effect on our skin, or our stomachs’without realizing that alcohol can actually have a serious effect on our enamel too. The effects of alcohol worsen when we consider how it’s drunken’usually over a period of several hours, with little to no water in between. Those who forget to brush their teeth after a night
Congratulations to all our July 2015 Graduates!
Graduation at CADH is just around the corner! What does this mean? To some, it may mean the end of a time that was rewarding, yet challenging, where an end point was the focus. To others, it may mean the start of a bright career, with further growth as a professional. The common denominator to both views is growth and learning. As educated individuals, one does not stop learning, whether in a formal setting as
Dental Assistants are Detail-Oriented
Dental assistants serve as a dentist’s support and are important members of the oral care team. Graduates of dental assistant programs are in demand in Canada, with increasing employment opportunities available in private clinics, hospitals, public health services and even dental sales companies. Becoming a dental assistant is a rewarding career choice that can offer you the diversity of working directly with patients and helping to organize the daily operations of the facility in which
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