Equipments all Dental Assistants must be Familiar with

As a dental assistant, you will be expected to help other dentistry experts in the office, laboratory and other environments which demand patient care. Duties such as disinfecting, sterilizing, pre procedure preparations and bringing out of relevant dental tools and equipments are some of the primary duties a dental assistant will be expected to conduct.

Over and above this, if you are skilled enough, your dentist may also allow you to assist him or her in some procedures. However, if you wish to truly make an impression and progress in this field, it is important that you familiarize yourself with some of the following equipments and materials that you will be expected to use on a routine basis.

1. Air-Water Syringe

As the name suggests, this particular piece of equipment helps bring in air or water, or both into the mouth of your patient. As a dental assistant you may be expected to use this when you need to wet a particular area of a mouth; to wash out the area after a particular procedure; or to clean away all debris and fluids so that your dentist can continue doing his work.

It is most often employed when the patient starts to bleed and the assistant will need to wash away the blood. This syringe typically consists of a controller head that helps you manage the injection of air and water alte
atively or both together at the same time. These syringes are typically connected to dental hoses which are in turn connected to containers that consist of pressured air, plastic and water. They come with removable tips that essentially go into the mouth of the patients.

2. Saliva Ejectors

This ejector is essential a dental vacuum hose that helps dental assistants to suck out the saliva from the mouth of a patient. Since the patient is not able to close his or her mouth while the dentist is working, swallowing becomes difficult. These vacuum dental hoses help assistants in getting rid of the accumulated saliva which builds in the mouth and hinders the work of dentists.

As a dental assistant, you will make use of these ejectors to make sure the dentist and comfortably continue working on a patient. These dental hand piece hoses also help in removing water, blood and other fluids from the mouth of the patient.

3. High-Volume Evacuator

Similar to a saliva ejector, this particular equipment is used to remove larger debris such as chipped pieces of your teeth, and other objects that have a chance of falling into the mouth of the patient in the due course of the procedure.

In addition to this, you may also be expected to gain familiarity with equipments and tools specific to the nature of practice that you are assisting.