10 Times your Dental Assistant Has Saved the Day

By Megan Donawa, EFDA, CDA, BA

Being a dental assistant is kind of like being a superhero. We use our abilities beyond those of ordinary people and demolish villains like dental fear, anxiety, and the biggest culprit: tooth decay and periodontal disease. Although these moments of strength are stealth-like, these skills never go unnoticed. Here are 10 times your dental assistant has (flawlessly) saved the day:

1. Using our mind-reading powers, your treatment room is set up for any and every step within your patient’s appointment…including those unexpected times of treatments that have gone rogue.
2. We use our accelerated healing powers to talk a patient off the ledge of dental anxiety and fears (because when you’re in our chair, everything is going to be okay).
3. The best heroes have control over patient documents like health history, radiographs, and past dental history to better prepare you for the battle against oral pathology!
4. Taking advantage of our super speed, we’re able to maneuver our complete set up from a simple filling to a surgical extraction without breaking a sweat.
5. Magically projecting our knowledge of insurance basics to dominate the quality of communication between the patient and the team. (Because true champions are cross trained!)
6. Delicately handing off our patient to the front office to schedule their next treatment to ensure teamwork to serve dental justice.
7. With organization as our ammunition, we create an effortless workflow to communicate with you.
8. Hitting back self-doubt with a vengeance and trusting the processes that we’ve put into place for patient care.
9. Using our supernova voice to bring our best input from the doctor-assistant side to the table during meetings and huddles.
10. Dental crime never sleeps, so we set back up to save the day again… tomorrow.