Action | Registration and practice of dental assistants |
Stage | NOIRA |
Comment Period | Ended on 11/12/2008 |
Allowing dental assistants to scale is mind-boggling and reckless. Not only does the oral health standards are substantially lowered, but periodontal diseases becomes more evident and affects the patients overall general health. I can understand why some dentists would want this to be allowed: money. Looking at the other dentists pointless rationales pertaining to in allowing dental assistants to scale, I am quite concerned. One dentist stated that dental hygienists are in a shortage. Last time I looked, I did not see any job ads for hygienists in the