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Dental Hygienists use their knowledge and clinical skills to provide dental hygiene care for patients.
Dental Laboratory Technicians work with a variety of materials, as well as sophisticated instruments and equipment, to create dental prostheses.
Dental Assistants may perform include taking and developing dental radiographs (x-rays), sterilizing instruments and equipment and taking impressions of patients' teeth.
New Proposed Dental Team Careers
The ADA proposes the addition of two new dental team members to assist dentists in increasing care for all.
The Community Dental Health Coordinator model training program is a proposed initiative to bring greater access to oral health care to underserved communities. The program will be piloted in several locations later in 2008.
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The Oral Preventive Assistant proposed model will support the dental profession by providing a variety of preventive services as well as patient oral health care education
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