Dental assistants have a lot of responsibilities in the practice. Sometimes it's hard to even think of them all. Kevin Tighe has created a very-close-to-complete list of duties for DAs.

A rock star dental assistant’s mission is to assist the dentist in every way possible, enabling him or her to provide efficient, high quality dentistry to patients.

The duties of chairside assisting are not just assisting and cleaning instruments when there are no patients.