You Should Become A Dental Assistant When potential students are inquiring about our program, one of the first things they ask is if we help with job placement. The answer is yes! In fact, there are more jobs than students. On average, we have about one office per week reach out to us looking for a dental assistant to hire. Dental assisting jobs are in high demand right now. All The Resources You Need to Become a Dental Assistant We also provide all the resources you need to apply for a job. We help with your resume and give you tips for interviews. We also have Dental Post give a presentation ..read more

Dental Assisting is a Rewarding Career Dental assisting is a wonderful career choice with so many opportunities for growth. Oftentimes, we get students who are bored with their jobs – sitting at a desk, making phone calls all day, working nights and weekends with no end in sight. We get students who want something hands-on and fast paced, something rewarding where they can truly feel like they made a difference each day. Insert: dental assisting. What is Expected from a Dental Assistant? Dental assistants are busy bees, always multitasking, from the moment they walk in the door until they leav ..read more

We have received many questions about changes to our program since Covid-19 started. Thankfully, we are still able to hold in-person classes and have been teaching as scheduled. With our smaller class sizes, and extra safety measures, we can help ensure that everyone stays in good health. Temperature Checks and Questionnaires Each week, when our students arrive to class, we do temperature checks and a Covid screening. If anyone has a temperature above 99.9, we will ask them to leave and consult with their physician about testing and monitor for symptoms. We also do a questionnaire to see if an ..read more

Many times, we get emails asking how to sign up. After someone has done their research on different dental assisting schools in the area and narrowed it down to ours, they are ready to get started. Signing up is actually pretty easy. We are here to walk you through the steps of how to get registered. Once you have determined that our school is the best fit for your needs, the next step is securing your spot for our next course available. We typically have around 7 students per class, so our classes do tend to fill up pretty quickly. The most we can take at this time is 9. When a student emails ..read more

What Certifications Do I Graduate With? One of the questions we often get from our potential students is what certifications they will graduate with upon completion of our program. When our students finish our dental assisting program, they are CPR and Radiology certified. They will also graduate with their dental assisting certificate. This means they are ready for a job once they obtain these certifications. Dental Certifications We enroll our students in CPR and let them pick a date that best fits their schedule. The certification is good for two years and is required to work in a dental of ..read more

Why Choose Our Dental Assisting School? One of the first questions we get when students are inquiring about our school is, “Why should I choose your school? What sets you apart from all of the others nearby?” We know you have options, but we also know what we have to offer as a dental assisting school.  Columbus Academy of Dental Assisting is very structured. We have a certain way we like to do things. Our goal is for you to be the best dental assistant you can be. We want you to feel confident when applying and starting your first dental assisting job. These are the skills we teach durin ..read more

CADA Tips for Finding a Job Upon Graduation Our ultimate goal as a career school is to find you a career – or a job after you graduate. Quite a few of our students actually find jobs before they graduate. We encourage our students to start looking sooner than later, so they can become employed within a few short months max after graduating. Resume We help all our students with their resumes and require they turn one in by week 9 or 10, so we can edit it, suggest alterations and give it back. We want our students to feel confident about their resume, and we want them to be strong. We all know a ..read more

As a career school, there is an extensive approval process we must go through to be approved to be an up and functioning school. Our process took about 4-5 months from start to finish. This included when we first decided we wanted to open a school and initially inquired about it. To give you a little background of our curriculum and school, we purchased our classroom materials from a very successful dentist in California. He created the curriculum for his dental assisting school he opened in his office, then began to sell it to other start-up schools across the country. There are now hundreds ..read more

Teamwork in the Dental Office We always hear about teamwork and how important it is. Like the quote, “There is no “I” in team.” It really is true. If you want to be successful in your career as a dental assistant, teamwork is where it starts and ends. There is nothing more that will make a dentist happier than to see their employees working together as a team. Have you heard the acronym Together Everyone Achieves More? Our Columbus Academy of Dental Assisting are here to deliver some tips on how to be a great team member and put in your fair share of teamwork for job security and growth in the ..read more

When potential students are inquiring about our program, one of the first things they ask is if we help with job placement. The answer is yes! In fact, there are more jobs than students. On average, we have about one office per week reach out to us looking for a dental assistant to hire. Dental assisting jobs are in high demand right now. We also provide all the resources you need to apply for a job. We help with your resume and give you tips for interviews. We also have Dental Post give a presentation that includes how to make a successful resume, what offices are REALLY looking for in their ..read more