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  9:16 pm
Commenter: Amber Parker - SADAH

NO to DA II
 

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.

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