If You would not allow your RDA to administer anesthesia, why?

Too much risk and patient acceptance

Ed. Abilities of dental assistant would need to be upgraded to the same background minimum of RDH.

Would support infiltration only

Only in cases where there are access to care issues

Not blocks, but yes to infiltration

Concern about parasthesia

Liability

Unable to perform expanded functions for Dept of Corrections

Complications, bruising, discomfort following injections

Too many dental emergencies can occur

Would need real patient experience

Legal, malpractice liability

Concerns about patient acceptance

To much liability/Malpractice Insurance

Patients are more comfortable w/doctor doing this

Not enough education

Important function that the Dr. needs to keep doing

Mandibular block would require a solid knowledge of anatomy

This is an area that patients are very apprehensive about

Patient behavior, pediatric

Would agree to infiltration, reservations under block

Would need to go to dental school and take the boards

Blocks are to technique sensitive

Endo practice and treet teeth with hyperemic pulps requiring great expertise to anesthetize.

More efficient scheduling

Better use of Doctors time

Better patient flow

Less chair time by Dr, more efficient

Better time management and patient flow

Better use of office time

Able to accommodate more procedures/patients   

Frees me up

Takes up less doctor time

Can do Hygiene checks and move on to another operative patient

Frees me up to do emergency exams, hygiene checks and see other patients

I Can be more productive in another room

Saves time and frees me up to do other things

I am able to do more

I have confidence in her abilities

I can see other patients

Can overlap treatment and see more patients

public clinic more productive, RDA places amalgam

allows asst to have more involvement in pt treatment, higher degree of satisfaction

improved flexibility in patient care and scheduling, improved patient access to providers

productivity the same, efficiency improved

speeds up the process of quality of care

Minimally streamlining procedures

We are able to see more patients with the RDA's placing restorations
along with other functions
Better time management

The more each person can do, the more flexibility we have in scheduling and treating patients

Procedure time is cut in half for me and productivity is up

Availability to perform other tasks

frees up Dr. to continue providing treatment for additional patients

Giving more chairside time for the doctors

My office is more productive, assistants can place restoration or temp crown

Able to double book against other treatments

We can see more patients and our time is used more efficiently

Assistant can do jobs I used to do leaving me more time to treat others

Assistant can take imp for bleaching/mouth guards while other assistant is with me

Many duties I previously did are being performed very well by the RDA

Able to finish temp crown

Able to administer other patients care while the RDA is doing her duties, more patients can be seen

anything that  frees my time has the potential to make me more productive

I can run a separate RDA schedule for patients needing the newer RDA functions

Many times the assistant needs an assistant to perform some duties

Assistant taking impressions for indirect restorations and making the provisional allows me to
do other procedures

With a projected shortage of DDS the expansion of the RDA training will be an important and
timely solution to the shortage problem

I'm able to give better attention and care to patients

Anesthesia in certain places

Place blockout dam for in office bleaching

Coronal polishing after scaling

Palliative treatment of dry socket

Placement of orthodontic brackets, cure, cement

Administer nitrous oxide

Rubber cup polish of teeth

Try in indirect restorations

Mark occlusion

Jaw relations

Obturating root canal systems

Composites - light cured resins

finishing and polishing composites

Placing sutures

Loading gutta percha

Final cement single crowns under supervision

Denture adjustments

Supra gingival prohy

Anesthesia, if an LPN can give an injection why can't an RDA?

Final impressions for dentures, partials and jaw relations

Chairside whitening

Infiltration anesthesia

Anterior resins

Remove and place ortho wires, elastics with direct supervision

Adjust occlusal guards

Use Velscope

placing sealants under general supervision, no Dr. present

present

Bleaching procedures

Deliver bleaching trays

Use low speed rotary handpiece to remove orthodontic bonding adhesive after braces

Polish all teeth after prophy, post SC/RP

Perio charting

Perio probing

Denture and partial impressions

Pedo rubber cup

Border moulding

Try in and adjust permanent restoration prior to cementation