Question: What can a Riverview dental hygienist do, and when do you actually need a dentist?
“What can a Riverview dental hygienist do, and when do you actually need a dentist? A dental hygienist can perform all your preventive services. So we can do a complete dental hygiene exam. We do scaling, polishing, fluorides, things like that. When you need to see a dentist would be if you have an active cavity or you have an infection where you need a root canal or an extraction.”



