At a minimum, dental assistants need formal education on Radiation Safety and Infection Control as well as CPR certification. Breaches of infection control are happening all over the country in all sorts of healthcare situations, and we need to gain control of this problem by making sure those people who perform these procedures most often in dental offices, the dental assistants, have the proper training. As for radiation health and safety, this training needs to be more than a few hours on radiation.  Most often, it’s the dental assistant in a practice taking the radiographs. Knowing proper sensor placement and tube head placement is as important as knowing how X-rays are generated to keeping the patient exposure level at the absolute minimum. The proper technique not only means reduced exposure but also proper diagnosis and treatment for the patient.  This law should pass without hesitation.