HLT45021 Certificate IV in Dental Assisting

Currenttraining.gov.au: current

Australia's national training register lists HLT45021 as current. It publishes no end date for the currency period.

Product type
Qualification
Training package
HLT — Health
Currency period ends
no end date published
Latest release
Release 4 · 22 December 2025 · 4 releases in all
Supersedes
HLT45015
Superseded by
nothing — no replacement listed

Where the register points next

training.gov.au points at nothing after HLT45021: it is the current product, and no replacement is listed.

This product is listed on the National Schedule of Training Product Development: under review by HumanAbility (Dental), with submission to the Assurance Body expected by 5 June 2026. That date has passed, so a revised product can reach the register at any time — but submission is not publication, and the record above is still what the register says today.

Source: National Schedule of Training Product Development, training.gov.au (© Commonwealth of Australia), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Excludes the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, trademarks and third-party material. View the Schedule. Schedule read on 25 August 2026 UTC.

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • HLT45015HLT45021not equivalent29 April 2021

    Updated to reflect current industry practices and terminology.

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What HLT45021 is made of

training.gov.au lists 32 units for HLT45021: 2 core and 30 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 2 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
HLTSTE003Sterilise loadscurrent
HLTWHS003Maintain work health and safetycurrent

Elective units 30 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBMED301Interpret and apply medical terminology appropriatelycurrent
BSBMED401Manage patient recordkeeping systemcurrent
BSBOPS401Coordinate business resourcescurrent
CHCCCS014Provide brief interventionscurrent
CHCDIV002Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safetycurrent
CHCEDU001Provide community focused health promotion and prevention strategiescurrent
HLTCCD003Use medical terminology in health carecurrent
HLTDEN015Prepare for and assist with dental procedurescurrent
HLTDEN018Implement an individualised oral hygiene programcurrent
HLTDEN019Assist in dental procedures during general anaesthesiacurrent
HLTDEN020Assist in dental procedures during conscious sedationcurrent
HLTDEN021Apply the principles of radiation biology and protection in dental practicecurrent
HLTDEN022Prepare to expose a prescribed dental radiographic imagecurrent
HLTDEN023Produce a prescribed dental radiographic imagecurrent
HLTDEN024Implement an oral hygiene program for older peoplecurrent
HLTDEN025Implement an oral health promotion programcurrent
HLTDEN026Take an impression for study modelscurrent
HLTDEN027Take a clinical photographcurrent
HLTDEN029Assist in dental procedures during relative analgesiacurrent
HLTDET001Construct modelscurrent
HLTDET002Construct custom impression trayscurrent
HLTDET003Construct registration rimscurrent
HLTDET005Construct thermoformed bases and appliancescurrent
HLTOHC007Recognise and respond to oral health issuescurrent
HLTOHC008Inform and support patients and groups about oral healthcurrent
HLTOHC009Apply and use basic oral health productscurrent
HLTOHC011Apply fluoride varnishcurrent
HLTSTE004Manage sterile stockcurrent
SIRXMGT001Supervise and support frontline team memberscurrent
TLIP5037Develop workplace policy and proceduresnot current

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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