What Degree Do I Need to Pursue a Career in Health Care? by Rita Lorraine Hubbard

Author:Rita Lorraine Hubbard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Dental Hygienist

To become a dental hygienist, you would need an associate’s degree in dental hygiene and a license to practice your trade. You would begin the road to your career by taking biology, math, and chemistry classes in high school. Some states require at least one year of college before you enter the dental hygienist program, and others require enrollment in a vocational school where you take classes in radiology, chemistry, and periodontology (the study of gums), to name a few. If you were interested in an advanced degree in dental hygiene, earning a bachelor’s or master’s degree would qualify you to perform research or teach classes.

As for personal skills, you would need to be knowledgeable, compassionate, and detail-oriented. You would also need great stamina because you would probably be bending over patients for long periods of time. Your work environment would, of course, be a dentist’s office, where you would wear protective gloves, goggles, a facial mask, and special clothing to avoid the possibility of catching an infectious disease. Although the U.S. Department of Labor states in its Occupational Outlook Handbook that the dental hygiene profession is expected to increase as much as 33 percent by the year 2022, most dental hygienists are only hired for part-time work, usually two to three days a week. For this reason, many dental hygienists work for more than one dentist at a time.

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