Certificate in Dental Assisting

College of New Caledonia

Certificate in Dental Assisting

  • Country Canada
  • Course Duration 1 year
  • Course Type Full Time
  • Courses Campus On Campus
  • Language Specification IELTS
  • Program Level Post-Graduate
  • Education Required 2-Year Undergraduate Diploma
  • Admission intake SEP
  • Minimum GPA 60
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Application Charges

Application Fee Tution Fee
CAD 125 CAD 22,360

Application Date

Application Start Date Application Closing Date
2022-10-01
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Program Description

Earn a fulfilling career as a Certified Dental Assistant! Certified Dental Assistants are educated, licensed and regulated members of an integrated dental healthcare team that provides oral care services to patients. The practice of dental assisting involves collaboration with patients and other healthcare professionals to achieve and maintain optimal oral health and overall health and well-being.As a Certified Dental Assistant, you will work alongside and assist a Dentist. Specific duties include:
  • Preparing and maintaining dental instruments and equipment
  • Maintaining appropriate infection control
  • Assisting the dentist
  • Preparing dental materials such as dental composites, amalgams and cements
  • Providing patient education and comfort
  • Performing patient care procedures such as taking health histories; assisting in patient assessment; exposing of dental images; patient charting; treatment planning; polishing teeth and delivering preventative fluoride applications.
  • Carrying out office administration services, including management of dental records
To be successful as a dental assistant student and professional, the student requires:
  • a caring nature and interest in the well-being of others
  • excellent interpersonal skills
  • good time management skills
  • good eyesight, hearing, and hand-eye coordination. It is strongly recommended that students have an eye examination and obtain corrective eyewear if needed.
  • ability to accurately follow verbal and written directions
  • ability to manage a fast-paced, demanding, and stressful work environment
  • computer literacy especially experience with word processing and internet
  • the same standard of oral health that they encourage in their patients

Careers

Our graduates are career-ready and are highly employable. Certified dental assistants are employed in a variety of practice settings including:
  • Dental offices
  • Specialty practices such as children's specialist, orthodontics, or oral surgery
  • Hospital dental clinics
  • BC Cancer Agency
  • Community health clinics and public health facilities
  • Residential care facilities for seniors and the disabled
Employment opportunities also exist in education, research, sales and marketing of dental products, and dental insurance company administration.For more information about the Certified Dental Assisting profession, please visit Canadian Dental Assistants Association

Accreditation

The Dental Assistant program is accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of Canada. When you graduate, you’re eligible to write Canadian and American national certification exams.

What you will learn

This is a 10 month, hands-on program with opportunities to work with a range of equipment and techniques.CNC Dental Assisting program offers small class sizes and a 1:8 ratio of faculty to students in the clinical setting. Our clinic is equipped with 20 dental operatories and 4 radiography rooms with computerized dental stations and digital radiography and record keeping abilities. Students are activity involved in our dental clinic providing patient-centered oral healthcare care services.Our dental assisting curriculum also includes community-based student activities. For example, CNC Dental Studies works collaboratively with the Northern Health Authority to deliver a Seal in a Smile program to elementary school aged children annually. 

Top 5 reasons to enroll at CNC

  • Career- ready, highly employable graduates
  • Educated, caring and experienced faculty
  • Small class sizes with collaborative education
  • Large clinic with 20 computerized/digital units
  • Affordable cost of living

Extra Notes


* NOTE : The Tuition Fee is subject to change Semester wise, as such for exact Tuition Fee kindly see the Website of the respective University.
* NOTE : Pathways : Students who want to pursue a Graduate Degree through a particular University but are unable to meet the university requirements for the GPA, GRE/GMAT or English Language scores, have to take up an additional academic and language support i.e. pathways in order to ensure the admit and study at the desired University.