Dental Assistant Registration

Washington State holds 17,158 active credentials of this type — 3.1% of every active health care credential in the state. Here is what that number is made of, and how to check one.

What kind of credential this is

A Dental Assistant Registration is a Registration — the lightest of the three main forms — the state records who is doing the work. A registration is not a statement that the holder was examined the way a licence-holder was, and the difference matters to an employer.

That word is not a formality. Washington issues 74,135 active credentials in this form across the state, and it decides what the holder may do without someone else’s supervision. How a registration differs from the others.

When these credentials expire

Washington renews on the holder’s birthday, so these 17,158 expiry dates are spread right across the calendar rather than falling together. By year:

How long these holders have been credentialled

The oldest Dental Assistant Registration credential still active in Washington was first issued in 2008. 5,600 of the 17,158 were issued in 2024 or later — 32.6% of the profession is that new.

The disciplinary flag

27 of the 17,158 active credentials of this type carry a disciplinary flag in the Department’s file — 0.2% — and 20 carry one marked pending.

This site publishes that count and no more: never who. The reason is not discretion, it is accuracy — the published file carries a yes/no flag and nothing else: no reason, no date, no case number. Naming someone on the strength of it would publish a suspicion rather than a fact. Every credential counted here is active. Why the line is drawn there.

Do not let the date pass

17,158 credentials of this type are active in Washington. Washington renews most of them on the holder’s birthday, every year or every two years, and continuing-education hours have to be done before that date — not after. Leave your details and we will tell you when yours is close, and pass your request for continuing-education hours to providers who teach for this credential.

We take no commission and we vouch for no training provider. We have no arrangement with any provider today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

Some of the 17,158 holders

Named as the Department of Health holds them, and limited to 140 rows — the full set is in the search, by number or by surname.

Narrower pages for this profession

• Dental Assistant Registration expiring in 2026 — 6,208
• Dental Assistant Registration expiring in 2027 — 10,945
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2008 — 2,216
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2009 — 598
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2010 — 369
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2011 — 330
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2012 — 335
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2013 — 435
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2014 — 439
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2015 — 478
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2016 — 478
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2017 — 490
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2018 — 588
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2019 — 659
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2020 — 728
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2021 — 986
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2022 — 1,089
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2023 — 1,320
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2024 — 1,470
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2025 — 2,097
• Dental Assistant Registration first issued in 2026 — 2,033

Credentials of a similar size

• Registered Nurse License 106,983
• Nursing Assistant Certification 59,078
• Physician And Surgeon License 31,099
• Nursing Assistant Registration 25,386
• Medical Assistant Certification 20,392
• Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner License 18,863
• Emergency Medical Technician Certification 14,905
• Medical Assistant Phlebotomist Certification 14,526
• Mental Health Counselor License 12,609
• Counselor Agency Affiliated Registration 12,416
• Pharmacist License 11,304
• Massage Therapist License 10,993
• Pharmacy Assistant License 10,772

Neighbours by size, not a ranking: this list slides with the profession you are on, so every one of the 98 pages is reachable from the others rather than only the largest few. All of them.