The Dental Assisting National Board (DANB) has published two guides featuring up-to-date dental assisting requirements for dental assistants, educators, state legislators, oral healthcare organizations, and state dental boards.
DANB's 2011 State Career Ladder Templates for Dental Assistants features charts with information on each state's rules and regulations for dental assistants. Each state chart highlights job designations for dental assistants; education, exam, and training requirements; allowable functions; nondelegable functions; and levels of supervision required in each state. This information is particularly useful for dental assistants interested in relocating, educators answering questions about state regulations, dental offices needing helpful printouts, and legislators or state dental boards comparing state regulations, according to the DANB.
DANB's 2011 State Fact Booklet provides a synopsis of current state requirements and excerpts from state dental practice acts related specifically to the dental assistant. It also includes state board of dentistry contact information, DANB exams accepted or required in each state, the number of assistants holding DANB certification or other DANB certificates in each state, comparative salary information, general information on expanded functions and radiography requirements, state-specific anesthesia and sedation regulations, and a list of Commission on Dental Accreditation-accredited dental assisting programs.
Information from both publications can be found on DANB's website in the state-specific information section.
The cost for each booklet is $40 for certificants or $65 for professionals. The publications can be purchased together for a discount rate of $60 for certificants or $100 for professionals.
