Mission Statement

The Oregon Dental Assistants Association's purpose is to promote the careers of the dental professionals which will enable the working individuals to provide quality patient care. 

This Association will represent the dental assistant professionals in legislative activities, mandated health and safety regulations, and provide progressive continuing education. 

The Oregon Dental Assistants Associations' memberships services will provide current information, resource and reference materials, publications and other personal benefits.

Position Statement

Whereas,  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.

Dental Assistant Pledge

" I solemnly pledge that in the practice of my profession

I will always be loyal to the welfare of my patients who come under my care, and to the interests of the practitioner whom I serve;  I will be just and generous to the members of my profession, aiding them and lending them encouragement

   to be loyal,

      to be just,

         to be generous,

            to be pure,

               to be upright,

                  to be observant, 

                     to be tactful,

                        to be studious.

I hereby pledge

to devote my best energies to the service of humanity,

in that relationship of life to which I consecrated myself

when I elected to become a Dental Assistant."