Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Dentistry
 
chapter
Regulations Governing Dental Practice [18 VAC 60 ‑ 20]
Action Registration and practice of dental assistants
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 11/12/2008
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11/10/08  6:55 pm
Commenter: Jennifer

NO DA II is cleaning my teeth
 

DEFINITELY NOT! NO dental assistant is cleaning my teeth. Dentists only have approximately 1 hour learning to scale teeth, it's not their expertise.  So how could they "train" a DA II to scale teeth.  That's what RDHs go to school for. This is ridiculous! 

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