1. A. A dental therapist shall provide care in accordance with a dental therapy practice agreement; provided that the dental therapy practice agreement is limited to:

   1. (1) the following activities performed under general supervision:

      1. (a) oral evaluation and assessment of dental disease;
      2. (b) formulation of an individualized treatment plan as authorized by a supervising dentist;
      3. (c) place and shape direct restorations without mechanical preparation;
      4. (d) impressions for single-tooth removable prosthesis;
      5. (e) temporary cementation;
      6. (f) atraumatic restorative therapy;
      7. (g) temporary and sedative restorations;
      8. (h) extraction of primary teeth without radiological evidence of roots;
      9. (i) palliative treatments;
      10. (j) fabrication and placement of temporary crowns;
      11. (k) recementation of permanent crowns;
      12. (l) removal and nonsurgical placement of space maintainers;
      13. (m) repairs and adjustments to prostheses;
      14. (n) tissue conditioning;
      15. (o) administration of analgesics, anti-inflammatory substances and antibiotics that a supervising dentist orders; and
      16. (p) other closely related procedures that the board authorizes through rules it has adopted and promulgated; and

   2. (2) the following activities that a dental therapist performs under indirect supervision or, if the dental therapist has completed a dental therapy post-graduate clinical experience, under general supervision:

      1. (a) preparation and direct restoration of cavities in primary and permanent teeth; and
      2. (b) fitting, shaping and cementing of stainless steel crowns on teeth prepared by a dentist.
2. B. A dental therapist may treat a patient prior to a dentist's examination or diagnosis, subject to a dental therapy practice agreement.

History: Laws 2019, ch. 107, § 10.

ANNOTATIONS

Effective dates. — Laws 2019, ch. 107, § 19 made Laws 2019, ch. 107, § 9 effective June 14, 2019.