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Dental Chairside - Advanced

Class Number: DENTAL 31508308-1 - Dental Chairside Advanced
Offering Status: Open
Academic Level: Post_Secondary
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Course Description

31-508-308 DENTAL CHAIRSIDE - ADVANCED...prepares dental assistant students to adapt chairside skills to assisting with dental specialties as they are performed in general practice. Focuses on pediatric dentistry, orthodontics, oral maxillofacial surgery, endodontics, periodontic, and prosthodontics. Students will also develop the ability to assist with sealants, perform coronal polishing, and apply topical fluoride and topical anesthetics. (Prerequisites: 31-508-302, Dental Chairside; all other 2nd semester classes; Corequisite: 31-508-309, Dental Lab Procedures; 31-508-310 Dental Radiography - Advanced; 31-508-311, Dental Assistant Clinical Advanced)

Course Typically Offered

  • Fall
  • Spring

Most NWTC classes are offered in 8-week sessions. Learn more about how our class schedule can help you succeed.

What will I learn?

  1. Evaluate nutrition and its relationship to total health
  2. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting with pediatric dentistry
  3. Assist with a sealant procedure
  4. Perform coronal polishing procedure
  5. Apply fluoride agents
  6. Apply topical anesthetic
  7. Position dental dam
  8. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during orthodontics
  9. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting with oral maxillofacial surgery
  10. Characterize pharmacological agents commonly used in dentistry
  11. Prepare a prescription for a dentist's signature
  12. Reinforce a dental prescription for a patient
  13. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during endodontics
  14. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during fixed prosthodontics
  15. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during removable prosthodontics
  16. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during periodontics
  17. Select techniques for assisting patients with special needs
  18. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting with implants

Class Details

Class Number:
DENTAL 31508308-1 - Dental Chairside Advanced
Location:
NWTC Green Bay
Date:
-
Delivery:
Hybrid
Term:
2026 Spring Session 1

Meetings Times

Dates Day(s) / Time Location
1/20/2026 - 3/16/2026 Thursday
12:30 PM - 4:20 PM
Green Bay Campus Room HS225
1/20/2026 - 3/16/2026 Thursday
7:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Green Bay Campus Room HS221
1/20/2026 - 3/16/2026 Monday
12:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Green Bay Campus Room HS221
1/20/2026 - 3/16/2026 Monday
7:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Green Bay Campus Room HS225
1/20/2026 - 3/16/2026 Online
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

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