64B5-16.006: Remediable Tasks Delegable to a Dental Hygienist
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The Board proposes the rule amendment to delete unnecessary language and to add new language to clarify the duties performed by the dental hygienist as indirect supervision or general supervision.
SUMMARY: The rule amendment will delete unnecessary language and to add new language to clarify the duties performed by the dental hygienist as indirect supervision or general supervision.
SUMMARY OF STATEMENT OF ESTIMATED REGULATORY COSTS: No Statement of Estimated Regulatory Cost was prepared.
Any person who wishes to provide information regarding a statement of estimated regulatory costs, or provide a proposal for a lower cost regulatory alternative must do so in writing within 21 days of this notice.
SPECIFIC AUTHORITY: 466.004, 466.023, 466.024 FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 466.023, 466.024 FS.
IF REQUESTED WITHIN 21 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THIS NOTICE, A HEARING WILL BE SCHEDULED AND ANNOUNCED IN FAW.
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: Sue Foster, Executive Director, Board of Dentistry/MQA, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C08, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3258
THE FULL TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE IS:
64B5-16.006 Remediable Tasks Delegable to a Dental Hygienist.
(1) The following remediable tasks may be performed by a dental hygienist who has received formal training and who performs the tasks under direct supervision:
(a) Marginating restorations with finishing burs, green stones, and/or burlew wheels with slow-speed rotary instruments which is not for the purpose of changing existing contours or occlusion;
(a)(b) No change.
(c) Cementing temporary crowns and bridges with temporary cement;
(d) through (g) renumbered (b) through (e) No change.
(h) Monitor the administration of the nitrous-oxide oxygen making adjustments only during this administration and turning it off at the completion of the dental procedure;
(i) through (k) renumbered (f) through (h) No change.
(2) The following remediable tasks may be performed by a dental hygienist who has received training in these procedures in pre-licensure education or who has received formal training and who performs the tasks under indirect supervision:
(a) through (g) No change.
(h) Applying sealants.
(i) Placing or removing prescribed pre-treatment separators;
(j) through (k) renumbered (h) through (i) No change.
(j) Marginating restorations with finishing burs, green stones, and/or burlew wheels with slow-speed rotary instruments which is not for the purpose of changing existing contours or occlusion;
(k) Cementing temporary crowns and bridges with temporary cement;
(l) Monitor the administration of the nitrous-oxide oxygen making adjustments only during this administration and turning it off at the completion of the dental procedure; and
(m) Monitor and remove in-office bleaching materials, after placement of bleach by dentist.
(3) The following remediable tasks may be performed by a dental hygienist who has received training in these procedures in pre-licensure education or who has received formal training as defined by Rule 64B5-16.002, F.A.C., and who performs the tasks under general supervision:
(a) through (g) No change.
(h) Using appropriate implements to preassess and chart suspected findings of the oral cavity;.
(i) Applying sealants; and
(j) Placing or removing prescribed pre-treatment separators.
(4) through (5) No change.
Specific Authority 466.004, 466.023, 466.024 FS. Law Implemented 466.023, 466.024 FS. HistoryNew 1-18-89, Amended 11-16-89, 3-25-90, 9-5-91, 2-1-93, Formerly 21G-16.006, Amended 3-30-94, Formerly 61F5-16.006, Amended 1-9-95, 6-12-97, Formerly 59Q-16.006, Amended 1-25-98, 9-9-98, 3-25-99, 4-24-00, 9-27-01, 7-13-05, 2-14-06, 3-24-08, .
