Dental assistants are a group of non-specialist tradesmen who can assists Dental Officers and specialist tradesmen to carry out their routine tasks. However, they will be elevated to specialist tradesmen status upon fulfillment of the stipulated minimum requirement later in their careers.

Qualifications

Passes in 06 Subjects at the G.C.E.(O/L) Examination at not more than two sittings including credit in Sinhala/Tamil language, Mathematics and Science(Mathematics II, Science II if an applicant of year 1999/2000)and one other subject and a pass in English language. Pass in three subjects at the G.C.E.(A/L) Examination in Bio-Science in one sitting is essential.