Bucks County Community College
Dental Assisting Program
Online USA
Course
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: Bucks County Community College offers a 100-hour Dental Assisting programme that prepares you for entry-level roles in one of the fastest-growing health care areas. You'll learn pre-clinical and administrative skills including history of dentistry, dental office operations, legal aspects and policies, oral anatomy and tooth structure, the dental operatory and equipment, patient positioning, handpieces, sterilization and infection control, and chairside techniques, covering dental assisting, chairside assisting, dental administration, sterilization and oral anatomy.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles as a dental assistant, sterilization technician, operatory assistant, or administrative/front-desk assistant in private practices, community clinics, orthodontic or oral surgery settings.
This 100-hour Dental Assisting Program prepares you for entry-level positions in one of the fastest-growing health care positions – Dental Assisting. The purpose of this course is to familiarize you with all areas of pre-clinical dental assisting and provide training in the professional skills required to function as an assistant in the dental practice.
This course covers the following key areas and topics – Administrative aspects include the history of dentistry and dental assisting; introduction to the dental office; the legal aspects of dentistry; policies and guidelines. Clinical aspects include an introduction to oral anatomy; dental operatory; dental equipment; introduction to tooth structure; primary and permanent teeth; the oral cavity and related structures; proper patient positioning; dental hand-pieces; sterilization; and other areas.
