4Y - Dental (2)

The Dental Career Field provides paraprofessional support in the delivery of dental health care to authorized beneficiaries both in-garrison and in a deployed environment. This includes assisting in general dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery, prosthodontics, endodontics, periodontics, orthodontics, and pediatric dentistry. In addition, services are provided in dental radiology, preventative dentistry, dental laboratory, and office administration/practice management.

Excluded from this career field are functions of operating medical facilities and paraprofessional medical care of authorized personnel. These functions are included in the Medical Career Field (4X).