Assistance dentaire : Profession non réglementée au Québec!

Bonjour, au Québec 92.4% des assistantes dentaires font des actes illégaux en cabinet dentaire . Des actes pour lesquelles elles sont formées à exercer. Malheureusement, depuis que le MELS a implanté le programme en assistance dentaire, il y a plus de 40 ans  pour répondre aux exigences des dentistes ,la diplomation pour les assistantes dentaires n'est pas reconnue. Donc, malheureusement, même en 2021, quiconque peut s'improviser assistante dentaire du jour au lendemain et compromettre les protocoles de sécurité sanitaire. La diplomation doit devenir obligatoire et les assistantes dentaires doivent obtenir les actes délégués soumis à l'office des professions pour cesser de travailler dans l'illégalité chaque jour .Le domaine dentaire au Québec se doit d'évoluer et prendre ses responsabilités.

Office des professions : Après être arrivé à un commun accord sur la modernisation de l’ensemble des pratiques professionnelles dans le domaine dentaire, l'Office tarde à statuer et à régler l'absence de législation pour encadrer la profession des assistantes dentaires.

Veuillez signer la pétition afin de mettre de la pression sur l'Office des professions du Québec et sur l'Ordre des dentistes du Québec qui tardent à encadrer le métier d'assistantes dentaires au Québec.

Dental Assistance: unregulated health profession in Quebec!
Did you know 92.4% of dental assistants in Quebec perform illegal tasks such as x-rays in dental offices?
These are acts which many dental assistants have been trained to perform in a Ministry of Education program created over 40 years ago expressly to satisfy the demands of dentists for a trained labour force. The diploma from this 13-month comprehensive training program, subsidized by taxpayer dollars (about $17 000 per student!), is not recognized a requirement for dental assisting work in Quebec.
The unfortunate reality is that, right now, people without any formal knowledge or training are performing dental assisting work in Quebec.
This situation compromises safety and infection prevention protocols and puts both the public and the untrained workers at risk.
A diploma from a recognized dental assisting program must become obligatory to work as a dental assistant in Quebec, as it is in other Canadian provinces.
Quebec’s dental assistants must obtain the legal delegation of acts which has languished on the desk of l’Office des Professions since 2001.
Dental assistants who have earned a diploma must be permitted to legally perform the work for which they have been trained, while patients must be protected from untrained workers.
The adoption of Bill 29 in September 2020 signalled the common accord of the dental professions to modernize oral health care in Quebec- the file cannot be closed until the Office des professions does its due diligence and completes a regulatory framework for all oral health care workers in Quebec- including dental assistants.
Please sign this petition to put an end to untrained workers in Quebec’s dental offices and to safeguard the health and safety of dental assistants and the public.