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Advance Your Dental Assisting Skills with Expanded Function Procedure Training
Are you a dental assisting student in Minnesota looking to expand your clinical capabilities? Hennepin Tech’s Expanded Function Procedures program equips you with the knowledge and hands-on experience needed to perform expanded function tasks safely, effectively, and in full compliance with the Minnesota Board of Dentistry’s scope of practice.
Why Choose Our Dental Expanded Functions Program?
This modular training series blends lecture, lab, and supervised clinical experience, giving you the flexibility to choose the specific skills you want to develop while meeting professional standards.
What You’ll Gain
- Flexible Registration: Enroll only in the modules that align with your training needs.
- Practical Skill Development: Learn the techniques required for each expanded function procedure.
- Blended Learning: Complete lectures and labs online, with required in-person lab sessions for essential hands-on practice.
- Professional Preparation: Build the clinical competence and confidence needed to support expanded function procedures in a dental practice.
Program Highlights
- Comprehensive Modules: Training covers impressions and bite registrations, topical medications (fluoride and non-fluoride), rubber dam placement, removal of excess cement, mechanical polish, pit and fissure sealants, temporary crown procedures, matrix band placement/removal, suture removal, and placement of gingival retraction agents.
- Experienced Instructors: Learn from dental professionals dedicated to your success.
- Affordable Tuition: Individual modules start as low as $85.
- Hands-On Experience: Required lab sessions ensure you master each expanded function skill safely and accurately with one-on-one faculty instruction and personalized scheduling.
*Anyone enrolling in these courses must hold a current Minnesota Dental Assisting license or be DANB-certified, and must provide the required documentation along with a letter of requirement from the Minnesota Board of Dentistry.
Modules Available for Registration
- Impressions and Bite Registrations – 18 hours (5 Lecture 13 Lab/Clinic) – $1,150.00
- Topical Medications (Not Fluoride) – 8 hours (3 Lecture 5 Lab/Clinic) – $495.00
- Topical Medications (Fluoride) – 6 hours (4 Lecture 2 Lab) – $250.00
- Placement of Rubber Dam – 14 hours (4 Lecture 10 Lab/Clinic) – $905.00
- Remove Excess Cement – 5 hours (1 Lecture 4 Lab/Clinic) – $410.00
- Mechanical Polish – 13 hours (4 Lecture 9 Lab/Clinic) – $825.00
- Pit and Fissure Sealants – 9 hours (3 Lecture 6 Lab/Clinic) – $575.00
- Preliminary Adaptation of Temporary Crowns – 9 hours (2 Lecture 7 Lab) – $670.00
- Cement/Recement Temporary Crown and Bridge – 1 hour (Lab) – $85.00
- Remove Temporary Crown and Bridge – 1 hour (Lab) – $85.00
- Placement of Temporary Restoration – 2 hours (1 Lecture 1 Lab) – $165.00
- Placement/Removal of Matrix Bands – 4 hours (2 Lecture 2 Lab) – $250.00
- Suture Removal – 2 hours (1 Lecture 1 Lab) – $165.00
- Placement of Gingival Retraction Agents – 3 hours (2 Lecture 1 Lab) – $165.00
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of your selected modules, you will be able to:
- Identify the required level of supervision for each expanded function under Minnesota licensure
- Take alginate impressions, iTero scans, and accurate bite registrations
- Expose radiographs and apply ALARA principles to ensure diagnostic quality
- Apply topical fluoride and topical anesthetics safely and effectively
- Perform mechanical polish and understand its role in patient care
- Place pit and fissure sealants and evaluate their effectiveness
- Place rubber dams and assess moisture control
- Place and remove periodontal dressings and sutures
- Fabricate and evaluate temporary restorations on typodont teeth
- Remove excess cement on typodont/green teeth and patients
- Place gingival retraction agents and evaluate tissue management
- Administer and monitor N₂O sedation during clinical evaluations with three patients
Each module emphasizes procedural steps, operator and patient preparation, and self-evaluation criteria to ensure competence and confidence in clinical performance.
Delivery Format
Training is delivered through asynchronous online lectures and labs, paired with mandatory in-person lab sessions for hands-on practice. All equipment is provided. Students are encouraged to purchase Modern Dental Assisting, 14th Edition separately through Elsevier.com