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Contact Dental Assisting

• Program Director
  Margaret Fickess, CDA, RDA, MEd
  mfickess@sdccd.edu

Welcome to Dental Assisting. Use the following buttons to navigate to view all Dental Assisting Courses, the Dental Assisting Certificates/Degrees offered, the faculty page and to visit the Dental Assisting program page that reflects our catalog information.

Students enrolling in the Dental Assisting Program at San Diego Mesa College will experience courses in the state of the art Allied Health Building (opened 2009). The program utilizes classrooms designed to give the student relevant dental experience and personal attention. The dental assisting classrooms include a dental clinic with modern dental chairs and equipment such as intra-oral cameras, CAD/CAM dental system and dental software, a dental laboratory classroom where students have their own lighted work area, a radiography room with digital x-ray equipment, a lecture classroom and a computer laboratory classroom.

The San Diego Mesa College Dental Assisting Program:

• Is accredited by the Dental Board of California (DBC) and the Commission of Dental Accreditation (CODA) of the American Dental Association.
• Is recognized by the local dental community and personnel agencies for skilled dental assistants.
• Ranks among the top 10 dental assisting programs statewide for passing the California RDA State Board Exams.
• Enables dental assisting students to immediately apply for the RDA and CDA examinations upon successful completion of the program.
• Includes required certification courses for the dental assistant and registered dental assistant such as Basic Life Support (BLS), Infection Control, CA Dental Practice Act, Radiography, Coronal Polishing and Pit and Fissure Sealant Placement.

Information Session dates and times: For the class of 2019-2020: Monday, December 3, 2018 @ 6:00p.m. or Monday, March 18, 2019 @ 6:30p.m.  Sessions meet in Room S117/118, in the Allied Health Building, 1st Floor.

Application: The application for 2019-2020 will be posted in January 2019.  Applications are accepted between February 1 - April 1, 2019.

For enrollment: Special Admissions Contacts (click on email address)- James Arnegard: jarnegar@sdccd.edu,
Dulce Carolina Lopez: dlopez@sdccd.edu or Karina Sandoval:ksandoval@sdccd.edu
Special Admissions, I4-102   Telephone #: 619-388-2682 / 619-388-5713

For program information: Margaret Fickess, CDA, RDA, MEd, Program Director (click on email address) - mfickess@sdccd.edu or 619-388-2697

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