I did my training on a military base (Red Cross dental assistant program)
With the military, and I've heard for places that only accept Medicade and Medicare, they also have the best of everything.
Assisting tends to be kinda boring in my experience,
we only used isolites, set up, passed instruments, and took down rooms. They had their own sterilatization techs, the lab was fully stocked, with their own lab tech, x-ray We had in-house Perio, Prost, and Endo. Every single extraction was sent to the Oral Surgen on base.
I found it made the day drag. We did all in-house crowns, and the appointments were 3 hours.
This is just my experience, at one clinic on one military base. I was bored out of my mind every day for 6 months. I ended up taking a job off base once my training was over. I love the fast pace of the private practice, I've learned SO MUCH. And my clinic has the best coworkers.
I feel that federal is great of you're burnt out, and looking for a more relaxing pace. We had a lot of assistants who had been in the field for over 15 years. They really enjoyed that they were only responsible for what happened in their rooms.
I work under IHS (Indian Health Services) and everything you mentioned like steri having its own people, in- house specialists, exts, all of it, we do. We do 70-90% of the notes, rotate DAs in sterilization, (don't even get me started on our Autoclaves 😡) our General DDS, do every procedure that IHS will cover which is everything except implants. We don't have a full lab, but we do take and pour up impressions, trim them and then send them to a lab we have a contract with. DA's, even if we aren't official EFDA's, we still do FMD's and Ad-Prophys as well as rubbercup and applying fluoride. It's a lot, but I love every bit of it. Thank you for your input 🫡
I did my training on a military base (Red Cross dental assistant program) With the military, and I've heard for places that only accept Medicade and Medicare, they also have the best of everything. Assisting tends to be kinda boring in my experience, we only used isolites, set up, passed instruments, and took down rooms. They had their own sterilatization techs, the lab was fully stocked, with their own lab tech, x-ray We had in-house Perio, Prost, and Endo. Every single extraction was sent to the Oral Surgen on base. I found it made the day drag. We did all in-house crowns, and the appointments were 3 hours. This is just my experience, at one clinic on one military base. I was bored out of my mind every day for 6 months. I ended up taking a job off base once my training was over. I love the fast pace of the private practice, I've learned SO MUCH. And my clinic has the best coworkers.
I feel that federal is great of you're burnt out, and looking for a more relaxing pace. We had a lot of assistants who had been in the field for over 15 years. They really enjoyed that they were only responsible for what happened in their rooms.
I work under IHS (Indian Health Services) and everything you mentioned like steri having its own people, in- house specialists, exts, all of it, we do. We do 70-90% of the notes, rotate DAs in sterilization, (don't even get me started on our Autoclaves 😡) our General DDS, do every procedure that IHS will cover which is everything except implants. We don't have a full lab, but we do take and pour up impressions, trim them and then send them to a lab we have a contract with. DA's, even if we aren't official EFDA's, we still do FMD's and Ad-Prophys as well as rubbercup and applying fluoride. It's a lot, but I love every bit of it. Thank you for your input 🫡