Pediatric Dental Assistant: Duties, Pay, and Career Path

If you’ve ever been to a children’s dental clinic, you’ve probably seen the person who keeps everything running smoothly: the pediatric dental assistant. They greet nervous kids, calm worried parents, and help dentists deliver excellent care in a child-friendly dental environment. At Atlanta Pediatric
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5 Reasons You Should Be a Pediatric Dental Assistant

Thinking about how to become a pediatric dental assistant in Georgia? It’s one of the most rewarding and reliable career paths in healthcare. At Atlanta Pediatric Dental Assistant School (APDAS), you’ll gain hands-on experience and the confidence to begin a meaningful new career helping children
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How to Get Your Dental Assistant Radiology Certification in Georgia

If you’re a Georgia dental assistant, earning your dental assistant radiology certification is a required step before you can take X-rays in the dental office. Employers expect assistants to have this skill, but state law says you must first complete an approved course in radiation safety. At Atlanta
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Salary for Dental Assistant in Georgia: 2025 Pay Guide

If you’re thinking about becoming a dental assistant, salary is probably one of the first questions on your mind. The good news? The salary for a dental assistant in Georgia is competitive, with strong demand across Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, and rural Georgia. At Atlanta Pediatric Dental Assistant
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How to Become a Dental Assistant in Georgia

You might be sitting at a job you don’t love, wondering what else is out there. Maybe you’ve always liked helping people. Maybe you’re great with kids. And maybe you want a job that actually leads somewhere without going back to school for four years. If that sounds like you and you’re wondering
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Expanded Duty Dental Assistant Salary Guide 2025

You’ve been working hard as a dental assistant, and you’re ready for more. More responsibility, more opportunities, and yes, more pay. So you’re probably wondering, what’s next for me? But what does the Expanded Duty Dental Assistant’s salary really look like in Georgia? And is it worth
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Get Out of Your Way (and Change Your Life)

Why is it so hard to break out of your old ways and change your life? Perhaps you want to start a new exercise regimen, eat healthier, or be more productive. Maybe you’d even like to further your education and start a new career that will give you better work/life balance, not to mention make you more
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Develop Resiliency: How to Move Towards Your Fear

How are you ever going to achieve your goal of education, a new career, or making more money if you can’t overcome your fears of change or failure? Fear is very powerful. Even if we like to think it doesn’t affect us, its roots reach deep and impact every decision. Even when weighing things that
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Celebrate Independence Day With Financial Independence

There’s an old game out there called “Ratrace”. It’s a (depressing) simulation of the average modern American life, attempting to climb your way to the top of the social ladder. You begin with $200, a credit card, and involvement in a working class business. Throughout the game you’ll run your
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The Continual Rising Cost of Education

When we look at the long-term trend of rising educational costs, we wonder…is it really worth the price? The most recent generations of students have been raised in a culture that rightly emphasizes the importance of education. Young students have been told for the last 30 years that they won’t be
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Be the Breadwinner!

America has become a nation where most families need two incomes just to get by. The “Leave it to Beaver” family of previous generations is no longer the usual circumstance, as 66 percent of households have two or more incomes. If you are a woman in Georgia, you are probably making less than $28,896
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The Importance of CE for Pediatric Dental Assistants

Do dental assistants (and dentists for that matter) need to continue learning through their entire career? At what point can you hang up your hat and rest on everything you’ve learned? It used to be that you could learn a profession and not much would change over time. For most of our history, dental
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National Children’s Dental Health Month: We are the Front Line.

  February was National Children’s Dental Health Month. Last month, everyone in our professional community should have been working to promote good oral hygiene in children. As children rely heavily on their parents, teachers, and caregivers to teach them these habits, our emphasis should actually
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Making Habits Stick

Consciously create habits, because habits unconsciously control your life. This time of year many people are attempting to change up their routines, hopefully transforming into an ideal version of themselves. Whether it’s diet and exercise or simply reading more, most will fail. Why is keeping a New
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5 Holiday Hacks to Win at Christmas

  The holiday season is the time when the craftiest among us demonstrate their skills and creativity. Perhaps you feel you don’t have the time to pull off a Christmas miracle, but my top five holiday hacks are quick and easy ways to help your family feel the magic. The Custom Cookie Box    Many
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5 High-Tech Deals for Cyber Monday

  Many people have resisted the temptation to stand in line for four hours on Black Friday in order to save $15 on a toaster, instead looking forward to Cyber Monday to take advantage of the great online deals being offered. I prefer not to spend my Thanksgiving weekend mixed up in a melee battle
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Happily Ever After — Life After Pediatric Dental Assistant School

What’s life like after graduating from the Pediatric Dental Assistant School in Marietta? To answer that question, I got two of my former students on the phone to find out how their lives have changed after going through just nine weeks of career training. Were they happy with the results? Would they
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Top Ten Things To Do Around Marietta

  Marietta is little enough to have that small-town feel, while still having access to all kinds of great attractions. Whether you are new to the area or you’re a Peach State native, you’ll probably enjoy everything on my list of Top Ten Things To Do Around Marietta. Six Flags We actually
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Living Large as a Pediatric Dental Assistant

$32,517.00 That’s the individual median income for adults in the United States, ages 25+. If we look only at women, that number rapidly shrinks to $19,679. Even if you obtain a bachelor’s degree, the odds say you still probably won’t make more than the median income in the U.S. With relatively
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The Secret to Success

Would you believe me if I said marshmallows can be a reliable predictor of your success in life? Allow me to explain. Way back in 1972, a Stanford researcher began an experiment that would test the willpower of young children. It began by bringing the child into a private room and sitting them at a table,
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