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ICI Diploma in Dental Assistant

Australia

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What will I learn?

Become a Dental Assistant. The course provides an opportunity to interact with and learn from very successful, highly qualified and experienced professionals. It also assists you in pursuing a stable and secure career as a dental assistant. Students will complete the following units:

  • Introduction to the Dental Profession
  • Prevention and Nutrition
  • Oral Health and Preventative Techniques
  • Occupations Health and Safety Administration
  • Preparation for Patient Care
  • Dental Charting
  • Pharmacology
  • Emergency Management
  • Clinical Dental Procedures
  • Instrument Transfer and Maintaining the Operating Field
  • Basic Chair side Instruments and Tray Systems
  • Anaesthetic and Sedation
  • Dental Radiography and Equipment
  • Produce and Evaluate Dental Radiographs
  • Restorative and Laboratory Materials and Techniques
  • Restorative Materials and Dental Dam
  • Laboratory Materials and Techniques
  • Dental Practice and Office Management
  • Employment Skills

Career Prospects

Think of it as more than just a job or a way of earning an income. See it as contributing and making a very real difference to people’s health. A Dental Assisting career will be all about saving smiles for a bright future.

Taking care of our oral health is an utmost priority and is an important part of everyone’s daily hygiene regimen. People will always invest in yearly or semi-annual visits to their dentists, as well as consultations for more aesthetic purposes, such as cleaning, veneering, and other procedures. And while dentists are in the forefront of dental work, they are always in need of reliable dental assistants to assist in this important work.

Dental operators are essentially the dentist’s “extra hands”. They let the dentist/dental operator provide more efficient dental treatment by sterilizing and handling their instruments, passing instruments during the procedure, exposing dental radiographs, taking impressions, and fabricating provisional crowns. Dental operators can focus more time on the procedure; the dental assistant then effectively becomes the operator’s extra hands. Dentists rely heavily on the invaluable assistance Dental Assistants provide.

Online Learning

This entire course is carried out via Distance Learning (also known as correspondence learning). Distance learning is ideal if you need to adapt around work, family, or other commitments. It is also extremely beneficial should you simply wish to fast track your studies (and career) and not be locked into a timetable.

Our course content and learning experience ensure that your course is relevant and interesting. Learning, tutorial assistance and assessments take place whenever and wherever you are in the country or world. It takes place at your own pace on your own terms to fit your lifestyle. As an ICI student, you’ll never endure a pop quiz, spend countless hours and hundreds of dollars travelling, and never be late with an assignment or for class.

ICI Diploma

This course leads to the awarding of an ICI Diploma of Dental Assisting. ICI Diploma level courses recognise the graduates capacity for initiative and judgment across a broad range of technical and management functions. Diploma holders typically have personal responsibility and autonomy (semi-independence) in performing technical operations or organising others in the workplace.

Which department am I in?

Faculty of Health and Fitness

Study options

Online/Distance (24 weeks)

Tuition fees
AUD $1,611 for the entire course
Start date

To suit the client/individual

Entry requirements

For international students

There are no previous work or education requirements for entry into course level. Graduates can expect higher course levels to result in higher potential salary, positions and skill capabilities.

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