I am writing against the petition to allow dental assistants to practice as DAIIs without any formal training. As a patient I would not feel safe having an assistant perfom any procedure on me that was not properly trained by an accredited university. Having someone who might have been trained in a rush or not given the proper training do anything makes me uneasy as in the end it is me that would suffer from their lack of proper care. I would definitely prefer having someone that knows what they are doing and who have been trained at a school be the ones who work on my teeth. As such I am against dental assistants becoming DAIIs without having the proper training as I feel that it would lower my standard of care.