Amanda · Premier Dental Academy of Longview

From dental assistant to academy owner

Amanda’s unexpected career path, the academy’s beginning, and its practical approach to training.

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Video transcript

I have been a dental assistant since 2011 and had no interest in being in the dental field. I actually wanted to do nursing but I wanted a good schedule as well as a good pay and so someone told me about the dental assisting course I thought I'm going to give it a shot and I fell in love with it we had our first class July 2018 and have been going ever since and of course with any business you continue to build and grow and make it better and better and better each year.

we do train in every dental field so like pediatrics, oral surgery, orthodontics, endodontics. We teach a little bit into each one but they want to know can you suction, can you pass instruments, can you set up a tray, can you sterilize instruments, take impressions and we focus on those because those are essential and if you can't suction correctly or pass an instrument correctly or set up a room properly it's a big deal for a dentist And we do have a lot of potential students that will say, well, I don't have the money or I don't have childcare or I don't feel confident.

Whatever your reason may be, we want to know because we can help you overcome that. And we want to make you confident. And we will work with you however we can.

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