Apply for Canada PR visa – 3411 (Dental assistants)

Dental assistants assist dentists, dental hygienists and dental therapists during the examination and treatment of patients and perform clerical functions. Dental assistants work in dentists’ offices, community health centres, clinics and in educational institutions.

Example Titles

• certified dental assistant
• certified intra-oral dental assistant
• dental assistant
• registered dental assistant

Inclusion(s)

• certified dental assistant
• certified intra-oral dental assistant
• chair-side assistant – dental
• dental aide
• dental assistant
• dental clinical assistant
• intra-oral dental assistant
• licensed dental assistant
• preventive dental assistant
• registered dental assistant

Main duties

Dental assistants perform some or all of the following duties:

• Prepare patients for dental examination and assist the dentist during examinations and dental treatments
• Sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment
• Prepare dental instruments and filling materials
• Take and develop X-rays
• Polish teeth and clinical crowns and apply fluoride and sealant
• Take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts
• Fabricate and place temporary crowns and restorations
• Educate patients concerning oral hygiene
• Invoice patients for dental services
• Schedule patient appointments and record dental procedures performed
• Order dental and office supplies
• May perform intra-oral duties such as remove sutures, take and record vital signs, apply desensitizing agents, topical anaesthetic, anticariogenic agents, coronal whitening and apply and remove rubber dams.

Employment requirements

• Completion of an eight-month to one-year college or other program in dental assistance or completion of secondary school with on-the-job training is required.
• Registration with a regulatory body is required in all provinces except Quebec and Ontario.
• Certification by the National Dental Assisting Examination Board is required to perform intra-oral duties in all provinces except in Quebec, where intra-oral duties are not performed by dental assistants.

Additional information

• In some provinces there are two levels of dental assistants: Level I – chair-side assistant and Level II – intra-oral assistant. Progression from Level I to Level II is possible with education, training and licensure.

Exclusions

• Dental hygienists and dental therapists (3222)
• Dental technologists, technicians and laboratory assistants (3223)

Source: This content has been taken from the official website of CIC

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