Oklahoma bill would create first dental assistant permit in the nation

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A bill that would create the first oral surgery dental assistant permit in the country and require all dental assistants to have permits is awaiting the governor’s signature.

Senate Bill 684 comes months after Tulsa oral surgeon Dr. W. Scott Harrington was found to be using unsanitary equipment and poor infection-control procedures that could have exposed more than 7,000 patients to HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

 

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