ODAA Position StatementsWhereas, The Oregon Dental Assistants Association’s objective for its members is to share in the responsibility, with the dental professions, for quality dental care delivery to all; and Whereas, The Oregon Dental Assistants Association’s objective for its members, is to support and encourage continued education, also to maintain the practice of dental assisting toward the highest standards of performance; and Whereas, Oral health is an integral component of over all health and therefore must be a core component of comprehensive health care; and Whereas, The Oregon Dental Assistants Association supports and encourages the certificates and rules for all dental assisting categories within Division 42 in the Oregon Board of Dentistry Dental Practice Act; therefore be it resolved Resolved, That the Oregon Dental Assistants Association believes the public needs are best met by dental assistants who have demonstrated their knowledge and competencies by meeting the required standardized written and clinical examinations of all Expanded Function Dental Assistants. Oregon Dental Practice Act, Division 42 https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/viewSingleRule.action?ruleVrsnRsn=200560 Presented: January 2014 Adopted: February 15, 2014 Amended March 15, 2014 Amended May 23, 2020 |