How much does a dental assistant that just graduated will earn per hour?

Question

Trained in coronal polishing, x rays, infection control etc. education at sanford brown institute

Answer 1

just a quick note...Pay varies greatly depending on state and duties. In my state, we have expanded-duties assistants which can make between $15-20. These assistants can place fillings take intial impressions, radiographs etc. The non-expanded make between $10-15 per hour

Answer 2

Median hourly earnings of dental assistants were $13.62 in May 2004. The middle 50 percent earned between $11.06 and $16.65 an hour. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $9.11, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $19.97 an hour.

Benefits vary substantially by practice setting and may be contingent upon full-time employment. According to the American Dental Association (ADA), almost all full-time dental assistants employed by private practitioners received paid vacation time. The ADA also found that 9 out of 10 full-time and part-time dental assistants received dental coverage.

Answer 3

I am not putting down anyone elses answers, but it is not a simple cut-dry answer. As a new assistant in the field 10 yrs ago I started out making $7.50 hr. Low by todays standards, but in our office hiring a new, untrained assistant (that is no offence to you but once you are in the field for a while you will see that there are certain things that you can not learn in dental assisting school, and can only come with experience: making temps, working up treatment plans, repairing dentures, etc.) will only start out at about $8.50-9.00 hr. I work in Texas, and by my own opinions am severely underpaid. I am fully expanded, coordinate all sugeries and implants, order supplies, and can do anything that my dentist asks me to and I only make $15.00 hr. I am friends with the owner of the local dental assisting school and she always tells her students to get the notion out of their heads that they are going to start out making "the big bucks" cause if they think that, then they are going to be disappointed. Many have called her back, after they graduated and got offered a job, upset that they were not offered a large salary. You can not expect to get the "big bucks" with only school training or possibly with intern experience. I have seen assistants with more experience than me, who dont know how to do near as much as I can. That is not in anyway bragging, it is what I have experienced. A fully expanded, highly paid assistant, would be able to do absolutely anything #1 that they could by law and #2 without much, if any assistance by the doctor or another assistant. For example: If you worked for a dentist and he did a 8 unit bridge on #5-12, would you be able to make an excellent looking and fitting temporary on that, and take no more than 1 hour to do so? That is something that an experienced assistant could do, no questions asked. So there is no right or wrong answer to your question. There are too many factors that affect the answer: the individual dentist, location, experience level, work quality, etc.

Answer 4

Between $10-14.00 per hour depending on where you live. If you work for a specialist, like an Endodontist you will make more.

Answer 5

between $13.00 and $16.00 an hour to start