Each year, the American Dental Assistants Association designates the first full week of March as Dental Assistants Recognition Week (DARW). This year, DARW is being celebrated from March 1-7, and the ...

The ongoing dental assistant shortage could lead to compounding challenges with accessibility and practice management if improvements aren’t made, according to Steven Spitz, DMD, president of the ...

About 6 in 10 U.S. dental assistants reported being satisfied with their jobs, which is 20 percentage points lower than it was in 2016, according to the Dental Assisting National Board's (DANB) 2022 ...

As its job title suggests, a dental assistant is an individual who helps dentists with a variety of tasks. They perform such duties as taking images and impressions, assisting dentists during ...