The United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics keeps track of different professions and occupations and provides information about them.
It is painting a very rosy picture for the prospects of those entering the career of dental assisting. In fact, it reports the following:
“Employment of dental assistants is expected to grow by 31 percent from 2010 to 2020, much faster than the average for all occupations. Ongoing research linking oral health and general health will likely continue to increase the demand for preventive dental services. Dentists will continue to hire more dental assistants to complete routine tasks, allowing the dentist to see more patients in their practice and spend their time on more complex procedures. As dental practices grow, more dental assistants will be needed.
“As the large baby-boom population ages, and as people keep more of their original teeth than did previous generations, the need to maintain and treat teeth will continue to increase the need for dental assistants.”
So if you are looking for improving career prospects, you couldn’t do much better than becoming a dental assistant.
The Bureau also has some good things to report about the pay prospects.
“The median annual wage of dental assistants was $33,470 in May 2010. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $22,680, and the top 10 percent earned more than $47,090.
“Most dental assistants work full time. However, almost 2 in 5 assistants worked part time in 2010. Some work evenings or weekends, depending on the hours of operation at the office where they work.”
So if you are interested in a career as a dental assistant, the Dental Assistant Training School is definitely the right place for you. We offer a course designed to give you the basic and fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to start your new career and with minimum time and expense. School hours are also designed to allow you to be able to learn without interrupting your current job or daily responsibilities. We will give you exposure to a wide range of techniques, materials and dental knowledge and you will gain the skills that dentists see as “core necessities” for getting a job.
Call DATS today at (985) 428-5322 and start on your path to a better career!
