A registered dental assistant is an educationally based, licensed credential. An RDA must graduate from an ADA accredited dental assisting program, pass a comprehensive written and clinical exam, and maintain their license. The RDA exam is both a written and clinical exam. The clinical portion of the RDA exam is supervised through the state dental board and is typically administered at the University Of Michigan School Of Dentistry, the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry or Ferris State University. The state of Michigan will not recognize any outside testing agency; in order to become a RDA, the dental assistant must take Michigan's RDA exam. The state does, however, recognize DANB's standards for continuing education for RDA's. RDA's are allowed to perform expanded functions. The state of Michigan only recognizes the RDA credential in the delegation of duties.
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