Where should you start?
Seven certifications, 23 courses and 131 lessons is a lot to look at. Find the line below that sounds like your job and the first lesson is one click away.
You are new to assisting, or you were trained by whoever happened to be free that week.
Dental Assistant Essentials
Start with Dental Terminology and Charting
You answer the phone, build the schedule, and explain the bill to the person holding it.
Front Office Professional
Start with Front Office Fundamentals
You are running the place, whether or not anybody actually gave you the title.
Dental Office Manager
Start with Front Office Fundamentals
You buy, sell, service, or are simply the person everyone blames when a machine stops.
Dental Equipment Specialist
Start with Dental Equipment Fundamentals
You are buying a practice, starting one, or already signed for one and are learning fast.
Practice Owner Foundations
Start with Practice Startup 101
You want to understand what is actually happening in the operatory, in real detail.
Chairside Clinical Support
Start with Dental Terminology and Charting
You want the whole building, every role, and you have the patience for it.
Complete Dental Office Certificate
Start with Dental Terminology and Charting
None of these is quite you? Every course is listed here, and you can take any of them on their own without joining a certification.
How this works
Pick a path, not a course. Each one above is a certification: several courses, every lesson in them, then one timed exam drawn at random from all of their questions. You can also just read a single course and stop. Nothing is sequenced against you.
Your place is kept automatically. Finish a lesson and it is marked done. A bar under the header offers you the next one wherever you are on the site. There is no account and no password, because progress lives in this browser rather than on a server.
Which means it does not follow you. Open the site on your phone and it starts empty. Your dashboard gives you a short code and a backup file that carry your progress to another device, and importing one only ever adds to what is already there.
It is free, and it is not accredited. No payment, no trial, nothing to cancel. ChairsideSource is not a CE provider and nothing issued here is continuing education credit or recognised by a dental board. What a certificate says is that somebody worked through the lessons and passed a timed exam, and it says exactly that on its face. The certifications page is blunter still about what it can and cannot prove.
Not here to study
Most people arrive from a search and never open a course, which is fine. There are 181 articles on the business and equipment side of dentistry, 40 equipment guides covering what each machine does and what it is worth, calculators for the numbers you would otherwise do on a napkin, a glossary of 314 terms, and board and radiation program links for all fifty states.