Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

Any supervisor should excel at:

• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment.
• Detecting or assessing problems whether real or potential.
• Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

• Ordering and monitoring dental supplies and equipment inventory.
• Fabricating and fitting orthodontic appliances and materials for patients, such as retainers, wires, or bands.
• Preparing patient, sterilizing or disinfecting instruments, setting up instrument trays, preparing materials, or assisting dentist during dental procedures.
• Exposing dental diagnostic x rays.
• Recording treatment information in patient records.
• Taking and recording medical and dental histories and vital signs of patients.
• Providing postoperative instructions prescribed by dentist.
• Assisting dentist in management of medical or dental emergencies.
• Pouring, trimming, and polishing study casts.
• Instructing patients in oral hygiene and plaque controlling programs.
• Making preliminary impressions for study casts and occlusal registrations for mounting study casts.
• Cleaning and polishing removable appliances.
• Cleaning teeth, using dental instruments.
• Applying protective coating of fluoride to teeth.
• Fabricating temporary restorations or custom impressions from preliminary impressions.