subject: The Characteristics of Effective Dental Assistants: Confidence [print this page] The Characteristics of Effective Dental Assistants: Confidence
Dental assistants are professionals who are trained to assist dental dentists in giving dental treatment that is efficient, getting the patient ready for treatment, making sure instruments are sterilized and during procedure passing them to dentist. Other duties include making sure the suction device is well held, exposing dental radiographs and other functions within the dental office. They are usually a chief asset in a dentist's life and owing to the sensitive, complicated and difficult nature of dentistry, a confident Dental Assistant is simply a must.
Confidence is not the ability to talk to people and walk without shaking, but in this case it is more in the surety of what you do. No human being is born with confidence, no matter how talented or gifted they are. It is nurtured and grown over a period of time, which varies depending on what field you are in. There are three main ways to build a Dental Assistant's confidence.
Adequate training
Dental Assistants are usually put through a rigorous regime of training and real situational dental procedures to sharpen their efficiency and therefore boost their confidence. It is important for a Dental Assistant to go to a well reputed training center and take an active role in the education process, and once they have built adequate knowledge, the growth of confidence will be automatic and rapid.
Experience
In Dentistry, just like any other professional field, the more one has access to the profession, the more confident they get. This is why during the training of a Dental Assistant, there is always a period of time where they go and work as interns in dental clinics and medical centers. This builds their confidence and helps them perfect their purpose in a dental office.
Testing
The more a Dental Assistant is tested, the more they eliminate the mistakes that are common and potentially dangerous in their field. Medical procedures require speed, high levels of organization and efficiency levels that are very high and the only way dentists and other senior dental practitioners in the medical center/hospital will know just how competent the Dental Assistant is. This, as a direct result, pushes the confidence of the Dental Assistant very high.
