• Providing quality continuing education
• Supporting and encouraging formal education
• Supporting educationally based credentialing for assistants
• Supporting dedication to patient care
• Encouraging fellowship, networking and enhancement of
  their skills and knowledge
• Seeking to advance the dental assisting profession
  to the highest standards of performance obtainable
• Continuing to seek recognition of the profession
  as a vital member of the dental health team
• Communicating effectively with all members
  of the health care team

I solemnly pledge that, in the practice of my profession, I will always be loyal to the welfare of the patients who come under my care, and to the interest of the practitioner whom I serve, I will be just and generous to the members of my profession, aiding them and lending them encouragement to be loyal, to be just, to be studious. I hereby pledge to devote my best energies to the service of humanity in the relationship of life to which I consecrated myself when I elected to become a Dental Assistant.
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