Association bulletin

Dental Assistant, The, July-August, 2009

CHICAGO, Ill. -- The Bureau of Labor Statistics says we will need a lot of new hands in dental assisting and predicts a 29 percent growth of the field through 2016.

The American Dental Assistants Association now offers "Your Future in Dental Assisting," an 8-minute DVD outlining the challenges and rewards of dental assisting in a contemporary colorful presentation that could help a prospective assistant take a closer look a field that is not ready to hang out the "No Help Wanted" sign. The presentation was made possible in part by support from the American Dental Assistants Association Foundation.

This eye-opening career video may be viewed on the ADAA website www.dentalassistant.org and a free copy ordered from adaahelp@aol.com. School counselors, educators and dental associations will receive preference while the supply lasts.

The presentation was produced by the Digital Video Production Department at Orlando Tech. Orlando Tech is a public school in Florida that also has the distinction of being an Apple Authorized Training Center (AATC); recently, the school attained the status of Level Two AATC. The only other public school in Florida that is an

AATC is Florida Community College in Jacksonville. There is no other public school--high school, tech center, college or university--in Florida with this designation. This makes Orlando Tech one of the top schools, if not the best, in Florida for digital video production. The editor for the dental assisting video is a student who is recognized by Apple as an Apple Certified Professional in video editing. The software used to edit the video, Final Cut Pro, is the same software used to edit many of the feature films and television shows today. It is the top video editing software in the world.

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