Action | Registration and practice of dental assistants |
Stage | NOIRA |
Comment Period | Ended on 11/12/2008 |
I am graduated of West Virginia University, I have practice as hygienist for over 8 yrs. I have practice in different states. one of the states I have pratice in wasPa where expanded assistance went to school for 1-2 yrs , but the program did not allow any type of scaling , they were train after the dentist prep the the tooth they were allow to place filling materials., to help the dentist out. When, I moved to VA i was so shock that denal assistance were allow clean childrens' teeth. After reading the comment , i realize that almost a lot dentist going say to yes to dental assistance they are not look out for the best interest of the pt. I am afraid dentist would choose a cost factor, they could pay assistance at lower rate than hygienist , then we will have problem that dentist would rather hired assistance than hygienist. In northern virginia not really a hygienist shortage. "Please Board member just image you are the patient in chair instead of having a train hygienist( who went to college for 2yrs or more) doing your rountine cleaning having untrain dental assistance placing a scaler in your mouth going underneath your gums.":