Chapter 448
2006 -- H 7772 SUBSTITUTE A
Enacted 07/07/06
A N A C T
RELATING
TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL
HYGIENISTS
Introduced
By: Representatives Slater, Diaz, Ajello, Williams, and Almeida
Date
Introduced: February 28, 2006
It is enacted by the General Assembly as
follows:
SECTION 1. Section
5-31.1-6.1 of the General Laws in Chapter 5-31.1 entitled "Dentists
and Dental Hygienists" is hereby amended to
read as follows:
5-31.1-6.1.
Dental hygienists and dental Assistants. -- Dentists licensed pursuant
to
section 5-31.1-6 may supervise and
delegate to any dental hygienists licensed pursuant to section
5-31.1-6, working under the dentist's general
supervision and who are is employed on a regular
basis by such dentists any procedures which he
or she may deem advisable; including initial oral
health screening assessments and other those procedures
specified under section 13 (or any
comparable or successor section) of the rules and
regulations pertaining to dentists and dental
hygienists promulgated from time to time by the
department of health, and any such dental
hygienists may engage in the practice of dental
hygiene under the responsibility of the
supervising dentists outside of such
dentists' office in order to render to residents of nursing
facilities licensed pursuant to chapter 17 of
title 23, whether or not such residents are patients of
record of the supervising dentist, without the on-site
direct supervision of a dentist licensed
pursuant to section 5-31.1-6, those dental
services, procedures and duties that he or she has been
educated to perform and which are authorized by
the board of examiners in dentistry. Dental
hygienists working under general supervision in
nursing facilities shall provide documentation of
initial oral health screening assessments to the
supervising dentist and to the licensed nursing
facility for appropriate follow-up assessment
and treatment, as needed.
SECTION 2. This
act shall take effect upon passage.
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