Action | Registration and practice of dental assistants |
Stage | NOIRA |
Comment Period | Ended on 11/12/2008 |
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I do not believe dental assistants should be allowed to perform scaling techniques. Dental hygiene students go through at least a two-year degree program to be able to perform the invasive scaling techniques required to successfully clean a patient's mouth. A dental assistant cannot just acquire these techniques from observing and possibly a short course of instruction. I feel allowing dental assistants to scale could cause harm to the patients they would be treating.