The goal in our job is to ensure the overall health, safety, and care to our patients. How can you possibly think its fine to have an untrained person caring for your  patients when its your integrity on the line. Patients come to a dental office because they trust that we have the best intentions. Don't disappoint them with money and creed. Give them what you would want for yourself and your own family... A licensed Dental Hygienist that has been trained not only on how to scale but that is able to detect possible oral cancerous lesions, one who can go through a medical history and dictate treatment, someone your patients can trust.