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Dental Nursing

The Dental Nursing Advanced Apprenticeship is delivered over a two year period. You will attend college one Saturday a month.

Dental nurses support dentists and the other people who look after our teeth. As a dental nursing advanced apprentice, you’ll learn how to carry out a range of duties like preparing the surgery and dental materials, sterilising and preparing instruments, taking notes during examinations, and with special training, taking and processing x-rays. Apprentices may also carry out non-clinical tasks like reception duties, meeting and reassuring patients, and patient education.

You will need good people skills to help make patients feel at ease and communicate with colleagues. You will also be responsible for maintaining health and safety in the work place.

Most dental nurses work in dental surgeries, but you could also work in a hospital, specialist Orthodontist, or even in the armed forces. There are many opportunities for well-qualified dental nurses to progress within the dental sector in dental therapy, hygiene, oral health promotion or dental practise management. You could even move on to related healthcare roles in nursing or radiography.

Job Role: Dental Nurse

ADVANCED APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMME
NVQ Level 3 & Technical Certificate in Dental Nursing

· Ensure your own actions reduce the risk to health and safety

· Reflect on and develop your practise

· Provide basic life support

· Prepare and maintain environments, instruments and equipment for clinical dental procedures

· Offer information and support to individuals on the protection of their oral health

· Provide chair side support during the assessment of patients oral health

· Contribute to the production of dental images

· Provide chair side support during the prevention and control of periodontal disease and caries and the restoration of caries

· Provide chair side support during non-surgical endodontic treatment

· Provide chair side support during the extraction of teeth and minor surgery