The M State Dental Assisting program educates students to be essential members of dental health care teams. Students learn skills necessary to:

• Work closely with dentists during direct patient care, including diagnostic, preventive and operative procedures
• Manage business office responsibilities such as appointment scheduling and billing procedures
• Perform dental lab procedures
• Provide expanded functions authorized by the Minnesota Board of Dentistry such as taking digital dental x-rays, polishing teeth, placing dental sealants, fabricating temporary crowns, administering nitrous oxide sedation and orthodontic duties

The curriculum includes general education courses; biomedical and dental science courses; on-campus lab and clinical practice at our Moorhead campus; and off-campus clinical affiliations in general, community and specialty dental practices.