Quiz: Should I Become a Dental Assistant?

a male dental assistant smiling while seated in a treatment room

Are you currently taking dental assistant classes? Are you enjoying the information you’re learning but remain unsure if this is the right career choice for you? It’s not uncommon to begin something new and wonder, “Is this right for me?” Plenty of people start a particular program, job, or task only to discover they don’t enjoy it as much as they thought. To help you regain focus and determine if your future belongs in the field of dentistry, take this quiz!

How the Quiz Works

While answering each of the 10 questions below, you will need to keep the following scoring system in mind: Dislike = 0, Okay = 1, Like = 2.

Let’s begin.

  1. You find the information and techniques taught in your dental assistant program regarding diagnoses, treating injuries, diseases, and deformities to be interesting.
  2. You are interested in the English language and what words mean, how they’re spelled, and ways in which composition and grammar are used.
  3. You are interested in the idea of assisting the dentist during various procedures as well as preparing the patient, sterilizing instruments, and prepping materials.
  4. You are interested in recording treatment information in a patient’s records.
  5. You enjoy following procedures and routines.
  6. You enjoy working with data and details more so than ideas.
  7. You enjoy the type of work that includes solving hands-on problems and formulating solutions.
  8. You enjoy working with real-world materials (i.e. wood, tools, machinery), animals, and plants.
  9. You enjoy working with others as well as communicating and teaching other people.
  10. You want to help and provide a service to others.

What Your Score Means

Now that you’ve completed the quiz, spend a few minutes tabulating your score. If you score between a 0-9, it is highly likely you will not enjoy a career as a dental assistant. If your score falls between 10-15, you can consider yourself right for this type of job. If you accumulate between 16-20 points, you have found the perfect career for you!

In addition to this quiz, spend some time talking to your professors and peers about the profession. Get an insider’s view of the daily responsibilities of a dental assistant. This will give you a better idea of whether you are right for this type of career.

About Dental Assistant Pro
For more than 25 years, Dental Assistant Pro has been providing aspiring dental assistants with essential knowledge and hands-on skills learning. Our philosophy is the best dental assisting training should be taught in a dental office at an affordable cost, so why not take a chance and enroll in our 10-week course schedule? It’s now more affordable than ever to become a dental assistant! To learn more about us, visit our website or call (614) 202-3919.

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Reviews From Our Students

Kenzie Clark
Kenzie Clark
13. August, 2022.
Great experience!!
kaitlyn mcgarvey
kaitlyn mcgarvey
13. August, 2022.
Quick easy way to get a dental assistant certificate. Quick way to get into the dental field. More job opportunities opened after I received the certificate. Also received radiology license from class. Instructor is easy-going & bubbly personality.
Kaitlyn Waits
Kaitlyn Waits
13. August, 2022.
Enjoyable, quick program to get into a dental office. I'm looking forward to starting my new career
Sydnee Burgess (Syd)
Sydnee Burgess (Syd)
13. August, 2022.
It was a great experience! I was very nervous about dental and wasn’t sure how much I’d like it but through this experience I feel a lot better about going into the field. Jeanie who is the instructor is also a very warm person and truly cares for each of her students and their growth in the field.
Abby Morehouse
Abby Morehouse
11. May, 2022.
Such an amazing program! Would recommend this to anyone looking for a career in dentistry.
Lilly Collins
Lilly Collins
7. May, 2022.
Had an amazing experience as a student in the Lebanon program! The instructors Abby and Jeanne are amazing and have taught me so much from skills to job search, i will be forever grateful for their help and this experience.
Kaitlyn
Kaitlyn
7. May, 2022.
Dental Assistant Pro is a wonderful program! The instructors, Jeanne and Abby, are very welcoming and do a great job at teaching their students. This program teaches you all of the basics and allows you to enter at an entry level dental assisting position at any Office. It was very convenient having classes only on the weekends and was so much fun!
Megan Sellman
Megan Sellman
7. May, 2022.
I went to Dental Assistant Pro from 7:30am-12pm, Jeanne and Abby made the program very fun and enjoyable! I learned a lot from this program and they made it easy to learn.
kiranpreet kaur
kiranpreet kaur
7. May, 2022.
I am only 18 and a Dental assistant now. I went to Dental Assistant Pro at Lebanon. It was a wonderful and thorough program. Jeane and Abby made it so easyyy to accomplish my goal. I learnt a lot in this program- X-rays, impression, diagnostic caste model and a lot of other things. Hands on training, awesome experience!!!!! Loved it 😊