Hands-on training in real operatories, small cohorts, and externship placement with partner clinics across San Diego County.
Dr. Sarah Jenkins
Program Director
94%
Certification pass rate
88%
Employed within 90 days
6
Instructores
10
Tamaño promedio de grupo
Programas
Un programa de 14 semanas que cubre control de infecciones, anatomía dental y asistencia al sillón, preparando a los estudiantes para puestos de asistente dental.
Chairside skills, practised until they are second nature.
Dental assisting changed my own path into dentistry, and I built this program to be the start I wish I’d had: small cohorts, real operatories from week one, and instructors who have worked the chair, not just taught it. If you are ready to work, we are ready to get you hired.
Conoce al equipo
Maria Rodriguez, RDA
Lead Clinical Instructor
RDA — 12 years chairside, sealant and coronal polish certified
My classroom is an operatory. By the time my students reach their externship, four-handed dentistry is muscle memory.
Testimonios
“I walked in never having held an instrument and walked out with a job offer from my externship site. The instructors stay after class until you get it right.”
The evening schedule let me keep my day job. Twelve of us, two instructors, and real chairs — not videos of chairs.
Derek Nguyen
Current student, Fall 2026 cohort
Colegiatura
Pay in full and save $300. The payment plan is interest free — the instalments total the same tuition, spread across the program.
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Próximos grupos
Fundamentos de Asistencia Dental · 14 semanas
DA-102 Clinical Skills Lab · 15 semanas
Preguntas
No. Most of our students have never worked in a dental office. The program starts with infection control and dental anatomy and builds from there, so week one assumes nothing.
Cohorts run evenings and weekends precisely so you can. Most of our students are working adults; the schedule for your cohort is published before you enroll.
Everything on the included list above — training hours, textbook, scrubs, CPR and radiography certification, externship placement and job placement support. The only additional costs are the background check, TB test and Hepatitis B vaccination, which you pay to those providers directly.
Yes, and it is interest free. You can pay in full at enrollment, or pay a deposit and settle the balance in scheduled instalments across the program. Your exact schedule is shown before you pay anything.
Eighty hours chairside in a working partner practice, assisting on live procedures. We place you — you do not have to find a site yourself.
You finish with a certificate of completion, CPR / BLS certification and dental radiography certification, and you are prepared for the RHS and DANB component exams. Those exams are sat with their own boards and carry their own fees.
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Quiénes somos
To be the region’s most trusted pathway into dental careers — every graduate chairside-ready, confident, and employed.
We train dental assistants through small cohorts, real operatory practice from week one, and externships with working clinics, so our graduates step into their first job already knowing the room.
Nosotros
Bright opened in 2012 with four operatory chairs and a single cohort of six students. Today we run rolling cohorts year-round from our Harbor Blvd campus: a working simulation lab, a digital radiology suite, and a sterilization area laid out exactly like the practices our graduates join. Classes stay small on purpose — every student assists on live procedures during their externship, and most are working in a partner practice within 60 days of finishing. Financial aid guidance, exam preparation for RHS and DANB certification, and career placement support are part of the program, not extras.
En el campus
Míralo tú
Resultados
Graduate spotlight
Ana Reyes, RDA
Hired by her externship site, Harbor Smiles Dentistry, two weeks before graduation.
Acreditación
California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education
Approved to operate as a private postsecondary institution. Approval means the school meets minimum state standards; it is not an endorsement.
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