Action | Registration and practice of dental assistants |
Stage | NOIRA |
Comment Period | Ended on 11/12/2008 |
I am strongly opposed to the notion of allowing dental assistants to upgrade their professional duties to include scaling. The idea of being a dental assistant is to assist the dentist and dental hygienists. As a student of dental hygiene I have become extremely humbled by the incredible amount of knowledge that is required to become a hygienist. This knowledge should be a necessary requirement before allowing anyone with a sharp instrument near a patient’s mouth. We need to only better our profession, not lessen it by allowing these compromises to occur.