The American Dental Assistants Association (ADAA) is in support of oral workforce models that ‎‎thoughtfully and strategically expand the role and allowable functions of dental assistants in the ‎‎effort of improving oral health access to care.  The ADAA advocates coupling formal skills-based ‎‎education with standardized assessment criteria in the delegation of all advanced expanded ‎‎functions to dental assistants.

Additionally, ADAA firmly maintains that any qualified dental assistant is delegated to perform advanced expanded functions should be compensated with a salary commensurate with the additional education and added responsibility of performing advanced expanded functions.

Further, to maintain and retain a stable dental assistant workforce throughout the nation, the ADAA upholds that all states recognize a universal entry-level dental assistant credential as a means of professional reciprocity when dental assistants must relocate across state lines.