By Kate Jonuska
Stocks may rise and stocks may fall, but there are certain careers that are guaranteed to always be in demand, according to IntelliTec Medical Institute, a fully accredited healthcare training facility since 1966. After all, the human body will always need care and trained professionals to provide it, and one field that’s especially promising in healthcare is dental assisting.
“Everyone has to go to the dentist,” says Alexxia Wood, dental assistant program supervisor at IntelliTec. “Dental assistants, believe it or not, are very highly paid and are ranked as one of Top 10 professions via the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And the real beauty is that if you graduate from an ADA (American Dental Association) program, you’re eligible to go to any of the 50 states and get a job and be very marketable immediately.”
The ADA has accredited 232 institutions in the United States and only four in Colorado, of which IntelliTec is one. Their 11-month, 19-day certificate program in dental assisting offers a 12- to 15-to-1 teacher-to-student ratio and a heavy emphasis on clinics as well as courses covering professionalism, communication and even psychology. It’s a curriculum sculpted by IntelliTec’s advisory board of industry professionals, who make sure graduates become assistants they want to hire.
“Dental assisting today is not just about the glorified spit sucker. We’re actually the right arm of the dentist and a vital part of the office team,” says Wood, who explains that assistants are not only technically trained to care for their patients’ mouths. They also work in financing and billing, compose treatment plans, juggle scheduling and more.
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