Faviola Dewire: Check your local state rules licensing agency.a DA comes b4 DH. both can b community college programs.
Dexter Dicostanzo: Yes. I highly recommend you go to a college for a certificate in dental assisting from a school that also offers dental hygiene. I say this because then after working as an assistant if you want to go back for dental hygiene the same college is likely to take you, a successful graduate of their DA program, into their dental hygiene program.I also recommend not becoming a dental hygienist because despite what the US government outlook handbook says, dental hygienists are NOT in demand in the US right now. I have been a hygienist for 3 years on the east coast and I am barely working. I can't support myself and live with family because I can't even afford to live in an apartment on my own. Also what professors won't tell you is that most dentists do NOT offer any benefits (not even health insurance) to dental hygienists.PS do not lis! ten to the above answerers. They don't know what they are talking about. DA does NOT come before DH. You don't have to become a DA first. But it is highly recommended to just work as a DA and not become a dental hygienist at all due to the job market. Also you do NOT learn how to be a DH by working as a DA. DAs sit beside the dentist and work with him. DHs do not sit next to the dentist. Totally different jobs.However there are TONS of dental assisting positions that offer decent pay and great benefits. And most dentists will not hire a dental hygienist to work a dental assisting position. I can't get any dentist to even consider me for such a position because all the dentists think I will find a hygiene job quickly and quit the assisting job so then they will waste time training me for the position. So dentists don't want a hygienist for an assisting position even if you are willing to work for less pay and work hard....Show more
Luis Farlow: I would think dental ass! istant first, that way you can learn hands on about being a hy! gienist. But I always thought they were kind of the same. I think the assistant just hands the dentist the tools, run the front desk and set up the appointments and get the rooms ready. Pretty much preps everything for the dentist. And the hygienists can do the cleaning of your teeth and the grinding down the crowns and doing xrays.
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