Diploma in Dental Surgery Assistant
Offered by: MAHSA University
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Exam Body | Internal Degree, Malaysia |
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Course Duration | - |
Part Time/Full Time | Full Time / Part Time |
Faculty | Faculty of Dentistry |
Conducted entirely in Malaysia | Yes |
Awarding Country | Malaysia |
Level of Study | Diploma Level |
Field of Study | Medicine & Healthcare |
Course Description | Dental Surgery Assistants are important, integral and valued members of the dental-healthcare team. They are instrumental in helping both dentists and patients. A career as a dental surgery assistant can be exciting, challenging and very rewarding. A highly skilled dental assistant working alongside the dental surgeons will provide benevolent care to the community by helping people enhance and maintain their oral health. The 3-year in Diploma Dental Surgery Assistant programme contains the essential and balanced theoretical and practical / clinical practices. The courses taught in this programme are an integration of basic sciences, dental sciences, behavioral sciences, ethics and humanities with special emphasis on communication, clinical sciences in various specialties and the clinical practice and management which make up the greater portion of the entire course. MAHSA also provides a part-time mode whereby the training period will be extended to a period of 6 years. At the end of this programme, students would have procured for themselves the ability to carry out safe dental practice in various dental assisting tasks, from basic dental procedures to specialty areas including taking of intra-oral radiographs and providing dental-health education to communities. |
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Entry Requirements | Applicants can either be a fresh candidate or a current certified DSA with at least three years of working experience.
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All fees are in RM (Ringgit Malaysia) currency unless stated otherwise.
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