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28 entriesSection 1740Establishes only legislative intent to fully utilize dental assistants to meet residents’ dental-care needs, permit advancement through successively higher licensure levels with…Section 1741Defines dental-assisting terms including alternative programs, basic supportive procedures, certified dental assistants, certificates of completion, continuing education, supervision, good standing, interim therapeutic…Section 1742Establishes the Dental Assisting Council; its five registered-assistant members need active licenses held for five years, and two must have five years’…Section 1743Requires the Dental Board to review all dental-assisting license applications, maintain application records, collect fees, issue licenses except when a licensing requirement…Section 1747Sets the referenced Administrative Procedure Act chapter as the procedure governing denial, suspension, and revocation of licenses issued under the dental-assisting article.…Section 1750Requires an unlicensed dental assistant to work under a dentist and, before procedures involving blood, saliva, or infectious material, complete an eight-hour…Section 1750.1Allows dental assistants, under specified general or direct dentist supervision, to perform listed supportive, radiographic, photographic, topical, impression, orthodontic, monitoring, and emergency-oxygen…Section 1750.2Allows the board to issue an orthodontic-assistant permit after application, fee, fingerprints, required education, current basic life support, and a written examination;…Section 1750.3Allows orthodontic-assistant permit holders to perform ordinary dental-assistant duties under general supervision and specified orthodontic duties under direct dentist supervision, including tooth…Section 1750.4Allows the board to issue a dental-sedation-assistant permit to a registered dental assistant or applicant with at least 12 months’ experience who…Section 1750.5Allows dental-sedation-assistant permit holders, under direct supervision of an authorized sedation or anesthesia professional, to monitor sedated patients, prepare verified drug doses,…Section 1751Requires the Dental Board at least once every seven years to review allowable duties, supervision levels, and permitted settings for dental assistants,…Section 1752.1Allows registered-dental-assistant licensure through an approved program, 15 months and 1,280 work hours, national certification, or 500/300-hour alternative or preceptorship training. Alternative…Section 1752.4Allows registered dental assistants to perform listed restorative, orthodontic, diagnostic-support, provisional, polishing, dressing, and related duties under dentist supervision. Ultrasonic cement removal,…Section 1752.6Requires a registered dental assistant licensed on or after January 1, 2010 to provide evidence of completing a board-approved pit-and-fissure-sealant course before…Section 1753Allows the board, on and after January 1, 2010, to license a current registered dental assistant in extended functions after application, fee,…Section 1753.5Allows registered dental assistants in extended functions licensed on or after January 1, 2010, to perform ordinary registered-assistant duties plus listed assessments,…Section 1753.51Allows an extended-functions registered dental assistant licensed on or after January 1, 2010, after approved interim-restoration/radiographic-decisionmaking training, to select radiographs under general…Section 1753.52Requires board approval on or after January 1, 2026, for courses teaching extended-functions assistants interim therapeutic restorations and radiographic decisionmaking. Interim-restoration training…Section 1753.55Allows extended-functions registered dental assistants licensed on or after January 1, 2010, or earlier licensees completing an approved course, to select radiographs…Section 1753.6Limits extended-functions registered dental assistants licensed on the provision’s operative date to ordinary registered-assistant procedures plus gingival retraction, final impressions, pit-and-fissure sealants,…Section 1754.5Sets board-approval standards for radiation-safety courses, requiring at least 32 hours: eight didactic, 12 laboratory, and 12 supervised clinical. Students must complete…Section 1755Requires an unlicensed dental assistant not enrolled in an approved or alternative dental-assisting program to complete an eight-hour board-approved infection-control course with…Section 1765Prohibits anyone other than a licensed dentist or dental hygienist from practicing dental hygiene or performing dental-hygiene procedures, including scaling, assessment, and…Section 1767Requires the board to adopt regulations needed to implement the dental-assisting article containing this provision. The rulemaking duty applies to implementation of…Section 1771Prohibits a person without the required board license or permit from holding themselves out as a registered dental assistant, orthodontic-assistant permit holder,…Section 1773Sets renewal, restoration, reinstatement, and reissuance of licenses under this article under the specified existing license provisions and keeps a newly issued…Section 1777Allows dental assistants and registered dental assistants working in specified licensed, exempt, or county-contract clinics to perform extraoral duties under direct supervision…