Dental Nurses Reviews

Dental nursing, in the NHS in particular, is very hard work with long hours and a lot of walking. I covered many miles a day in my last position. The practice was in a run-down area with many patients who lacked education in even the most basic dental care so we had lots of fillings and extractions to carry out on very young children because ...  Read the complete review

Dental nursing is hard work, tiring, repetative and extremely boring. Your health is likely to suffer due to dentists working incorrectly and not adopting the correct seating arrangements. Dentists more often than not have huge egos and many are known to treat their Dental Nurses with little and no respect. Pay is poor and you may be expected to work overtime without pay. You are unlikely to have a pension scheme in place. You have to breathe in patients germs day in day out as well as amalgam.
Unless you plan to become a hygeinist or a dentist in the long term then I would steer clear. It really is a horrible job.

I was reading the reviews about Dental Nursing and had to add my experiences. The Dental Nurse Profession has at last been recognised with Statutory Registration with the General Dental Council compulsory in 2008 it will raise the importance of the prorfession. I qualified back in 1971 and since then have worked in General Dental Practice, ...  Read the complete review

Hi, I trained as a dental nurse at Guys Hospital 1995-1997, so my experience maybe slightly out of date. I decided to train in hospital because i didn't want to have to work all day and then do evening classes. This is the one beauty of training in a hospital, all of you lessons are during the day. You genearly do 70% clinical traing and 30% ...  Read the complete review

I wrote a review on being a dental nurse a while ago and after reading it myself, it seemed lame and did not really give much insight into dental nursing or how you'd go about gaining employment as a d/n, so i have decided to try my hand at writing another one, and fingers crossed this one will hopefully be better and help anybody who is thinking ...  Read the complete review

Hello there! Yes I am the girl you often see when you go to the dentist! You know the one who writes all the notes, mixes up fillings and sucks all that yucky stuff out of your mouth!! Yes I am a dental nurse!! I started this job about 2 years ago when I left college. I had been studying Health and Social Care and did originally ...  Read the complete review