Your Hands-On Dental Assisting Program Experience
Live Patient Clinics
When you decide on your path to becoming a dental assistant, you know you want the best education possible to prepare you for your future.
While you can learn the basics almost anywhere, few training programs offer the hands-on work that will put you in clinicals from the start of your program through graduation.
At the American Institute of Dental Assisting (AIDA), we prioritize comprehensive, hands-on learning that gives you real-world experience you can feel confident in. Set yourself up for long-term career success through our live patient dental assistant school.
What Do We Mean by Hands-On Dental Assistant Training?
The term “hands-on” has become something of a buzzword for training programs, but its definition usually varies by program. Do they mean hands-on as in you’ll be touching textbooks and tools, or do they mean truly hands-on, where you work with real patients in active dental offices?
At AIDA, we proudly offer the latter. With an accelerated 13-week program like ours, we believe you should start gaining real-life experience as soon as possible. Soon after you join our program, you’ll meet with your instructors, many of whom are practicing dentists. When you’re not in class, you’ll be in clinicals, working chairside as your instructor guides you through many of the roles you can expect to be a part of your daily life as a dental assistant. As you work in one of our practicing clinics, you’ll also gain experience taking dental X-rays and working with the latest industry technology that ensures you provide patients with the best care available.
No plastic dummies or impression trays. AIDA’s dental assistant school helps you start working with live patients and get more experience than you’ll find elsewhere.
Gain Comprehensive Chairside Dental Assistant Experience
Your clinical hours are just one part of our advanced learning program for aspiring dental assistants. When you aren’t working with patients, your instructors will give you valuable information about your new field and what you’ll be expected to know when you start practicing as a certified professional.
Your classes will focus on the essentials like:
- Dental anatomy and physiology
- Patient exams
- DANB X-ray practice
- Coronal polishing
- Intraoral digital scanning
- Infection control protocols
- Dentrix Dental software
- Clinical restorations (fillings and crowns)
At the end of your training, you can look forward to being a certified dental assistant with the skills needed to complete advanced certifications for X-rays and coronal polishing. The best news of all? Our program is entirely flexible, making a career change achievable for most, even if you have a busy job or personal responsibilities to maintain. We have new students starting their training every month who take a range of daytime, morning, evening and weekend courses. Whatever your scheduling conflicts, AIDA will help you earn your certification as quickly as possible.
Live Experience Becomes Lifetime Support
From the moment you join the AIDA family, you’ll have more to look forward to than dental assistant training with clinicals. Our Student Services team is committed to seeing you succeed inside and out of your patient interactions, so you’ll have full access to resources like tutoring, certification application assistance, resume writing support and interview coaching. These critical services can help you do better in your program and prepare you to step out into the dental assisting industry when you are ready to move forward.
Even once you graduate, you can rest assured that the AIDA team wants to help. Our years as an established hands-on training program make our students highly sought-after professionals, and we have connections that help them find their place after graduation. We will help you locate the best roles for your situation, whether you’ve just finished your program or you’re years into your career. Our lifetime job placement services will continue to be available to our graduates far after their time in our program ends.
Take Advantage of Our Dental Assistant Clinicals in Phoenix, AZ
In just 13 weeks, you can be on a career path that changes your life. Let the American Institute of Dental Assisting help you develop the skills and knowledge you need to harness security, stability and satisfaction through the remainder of your working years. Apply online, book a tour, or reach out to our team at 480-209-1392 for more information today. We are accepting new students to our Mesa and Phoenix campuses now.