OAR 818-042-0080. Certification — Expanded Function Dental Assistant (EFDA)

The Board may certify a dental assistant as an expanded function assistant: (1) By credential in accordance with OAR 818-042-0120, or (2) If the assistant submits a completed application, pays the fee and provides evidence of; (a) Certification of Radiologic Proficiency (OAR 818-042-0060); and satisfactory completion of a course of instruction in a program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation; or (b) Certification of Radiologic Proficiency (OAR 818-042-0060); and passage of the Oregon Expanded Functions with Infection Control examination, or equivalent successor examinations, administered by the Dental Assisting National Board, Inc. (DANB), or any other testing entity authorized by the Board, or prior passage of the Certified Dental Assistant examination or Infection Control Examination and passage of the Oregon Expanded Functions General Dental Assisting exam, or equivalent successor examinations, administered by DANB or any other testing entity authorized by the Board; and certification by an Oregon licensed dentist that the applicant has successfully removed supra-gingival excess cement from four (4) crowns and/or fixed partial dentures (bridges) with hand instruments; placed temporary restorative material in three (3) teeth; preliminarily fitted four (4) crowns to check contacts or to adjust occlusion outside the mouth; removed four (4) temporary crowns for final cementation and cleaned teeth for final cementation; fabricated four (4) temporary crowns and/or fixed partial dentures (bridges) and temporarily cemented the crowns and/or fixed partial dentures (bridges); polished the coronal surfaces of teeth with a brush or rubber cup as part of oral prophylaxis in six (6) patients; placed matrix bands on four (4) teeth prepared for Class II restorations. The dental assistant must submit within six months’ certification by a licensed dentist that the dental assistant is proficient to perform all the expanded function duties in subsection (b). If no expanded function certificate is issued within the six months, the dental assistant is no longer able to continue to perform expanded function duties until EFDA certification is achieved.