"Receive and prepare patients for treatment, including seating, positioning chair, and placing napkin"
"Using the concepts of four-handed dentistry, assist with basic restorative procedures, including prosthodontics and restorative dentistry"
"Using the concepts of four-handed dentistry, assist with basic intraoral surgical procedures, including extractions, periodontics, endodontics, and implants"
"Prepare procedural trays/armamentaria set-ups"
"Maintain field of operation during dental procedures through the use of retraction, suction, irrigation, drying, placing and removing cotton rolls, etc."
"Select and manipulate gypsums and waxes"
"Mix dental materials"
"Expose radiographs"
"Chart existing restorations or conditions"
"Perform routine maintenance of dental equipment"
"Monitor and respond to postsurgical bleeding"
"Apply effective communication techniques with a variety of patients"
"Transfer dental instruments"
"Provide patient preventive education and oral hygiene instruction"
"Perform sterilization and disinfection procedures"
"Provide pre- and post-operative instructions"
"Apply topical fluoride"
"Pour, trim, and evaluate the quality of diagnostic casts"
"Take, record, and monitor vital signs"
"Clean and polish removable appliances and prostheses"
"Process, mount, and label dental radiographs"
"Apply topical anesthetic to the injection site"
"Monitor nitrous oxide/oxygen analgesia"
"Maintain emergency kit"
"Fabricate custom trays, to include impression and bleaching trays, and athletic mouthguards"
"Recognize basic medical emergencies"