Registered dental assistants (RDAs) must take this class in infection control. Instruction includes standard precautions, disinfection, sterilization, setting up for operations and cleaning up. This class requires one eight-hour day and costs $250 for eight dental continuing education credits. You must bring a patient and wear scrubs.
Hygienists will benefit from knowing what RDAs are allowed to do. This is the first of three modules that explain the expanded duties that registered dental assistants have effective January 1, 2010. These include X-rays, photography, some topical applications, impressions, isolations, dressing removals, measurements, light-curing, suture removal and more. The class includes hands-on instruction in many of these techniques. This module lasts 13 eight-hour days. It costs $3,495 plus materials and gives you 104 dental continuing education credits.
Learn new ways to protect yourself and your patients during medical emergencies with this class. Find out what liabilities and responsibilities you have as a hygienist. See how to help prepare the dental office to deal with emergencies. Discover what happens when you call 911. This class lasts one eight-hour day and costs $98 for seven dental continuing education credits.