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  9:07 pm
Commenter: Angela Marcus, RDH

No to Assistant II Scaling
 

You must be educated and registered to preform scaling on a patient.  It is negligent to allow an unskilled individual to preform such acts.  I'm sure a patient would not agree with having a person preform on them an act they are not skilled to do.

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