Jennifer Hawley Price[email protected]Dental AssistantHelping those who need it most: The rewards of working in public health dental assistingWhether it's enabling healthy smiles or harnessing an opportunity for professional growth and development, public health dentistry can be a rewarding profession for dental assistants. Here are two stories.March 19, 2024Dental Assistant5 ways to make your dental assistants feel valuedAs Dental Assistants Recognition Week continues, one dental assistant shares key strategies for empowering and engaging dental assistants to help them have long, rewarding careers.March 6, 2024Dental AssistantWhy this dental assistant stuck aroundGuinevere B. Juckett, CDA, has been a dental assistant for 34 years, working at the same practice in Ohio for 24 years. Here's why she stays in her current position and in the industry.March 1, 2024Dental AssistantThe powerful role dental assistants play in purchasingAccording to research, 74% of dental assistants said that they recommend products, and 72% are involved in placing dental product orders, with 42% of dental assistants doing this work independently for their dental practice, writes Jennifer Hawley Price of the Dental Assisting National Board.March 10, 2020Dental AssistantDental Assistants Recognition Week is underwayEvery year, we take a week in March -- Dental Assistants Recognition Week -- to celebrate the dental assistant. Dental assistants show up for their practice and patients every day to ensure patients have the safest dental visit possible.March 1, 2020Page 1 of 1Top StoriesAnesthesiaNew details emerge in death of 9-year-old dental patientThe San Diego County Department of the Medical Examiner has provided new information about the 9-year-old girl in California who died hours after she was administered anesthesia and underwent dental surgery.Dental HygieneSurvey uncovers gaps in U.S. oral hygiene habitsPractice SalesThe win-win-win deal that benefits selling doctors, DSOs, and patientsLegal IssuesDentist files antitrust lawsuit against insurersImaging & CAD/CAMPatients don't like what they see on their intraoral scans
