At Collège Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick in Miramichi, Canada, Cert in Dental Assisting - Level II is offered as a certificate in Dentistry programme. The programme runs for 37 weeks. Tuition for international students is CAD 10,258 per year (CAD 3,662 per year for local students).
Dental Assisting – Level II is a certificate program offered by the Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB) that prepares students to work as dental assistants in general or specialized dental clinics. Coursework covers oral anatomy, dental materials, preventive dentistry and nutrition, oral radiology, and pharmacology and emergencies in dentistry, along with preclinical and clinical laboratory practice that builds toward assisting a dentist directly during treatment. Students learn to carry out intraoral and extraoral technical tasks, support patients before and after procedures, and manage the clinical and administrative side of a dental practice, and the program includes a clinical stage in a dental setting. It is offered at the Campbellton campus. It suits students who enjoy caring for others and working with instruments, are meticulous and comfortable with precise manual tasks, and bring patience, compassion, and strong interpersonal skills to working closely with patients and a dental team.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission follows CCNB's Profile O: a New Brunswick high school diploma (regular or modified), with French 10411, Mathematics 30321A, 30311B, or 30331C, Biology 53421, and Chemistry 52311. Applicants who do not meet this pathway may instead pass the CCNB admission test; international applicants need an equivalent secondary diploma plus this test, with Biology equivalent to Grade 12 and Chemistry equivalent to Grade 11. Students must submit a criminal record check at their own expense (practicum eligibility depends on the result), hepatitis B vaccination is strongly recommended, and valid Standard First Aid (Level C) and CPR certification must be shown. Some practicum placements may require basic English. Non-native French speakers without sufficient schooling must demonstrate proficiency via TFI (minimum score 700), TCF or TEF Canada (level B2), DELF (B2), or DALF (C1).
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick publishes no fixed application opening or closing dates, for either domestic or international applicants, for the autumn or winter session; the selection process begins in November for the following academic year, and complete applications are evaluated on a rolling basis as they are received. Rather than calendar deadlines, CCNB publishes a list, refreshed each cycle, of which programmes currently have admissions open (a 2026-27 list is live, covering Automne 2026), and it recommends applying early because some programmes draw more applications than seats available. Once an offer is made, domestic applicants have 30 days to confirm their place, while international applicants have 21 days. No separate international application deadline exists; the same rolling process applies to international applicants. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
