Part of the newly installed MDHA BOD 2023-2024.
Hygienists attending annual session.
Board members and volunteer leaders at a table during annual session.
Part of the newly installed MDHA BOD 2023-2024.
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Take Action Against Scaling Assistants in Missouri! Write the Missouri Dental Board TODAY!
In April 2023, at the urging of the Office of Dental Health (ODH), the Missouri Dental Board (MDB) approved the concept of developing the Expanded Functions Oral Preventive Assistant (OPA) pilot program, enabling the ODH and the Missouri Dental Association to begin developing the curriculum for the program to be designed to allow an OPA, equivalent to a scaling assistant who would scale teeth above the gumline, and probe, with little education, to work on Missourians.
Read more on our current events tab on how you can help take action against this pilot program!
