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) the following activities performed under general supervision: (a) oral evaluation and assessment of dental disease; (b) formulation of an individualized treatment plan as authorized by a supervising dentist; (c) place and shape direct restorations without mechanical preparation; (d) impressions for single-tooth removable prosthesis; (e) temporary cementation; (f) atraumatic restorative therapy; (g) temporary and sedative restorations; (h) extraction of primary teeth without radiological evidence of roots; (i) palliative treatments; (j) fabrication and placement of temporary crowns; (k) recementation of permanent crowns; (l) removal and nonsurgical placement of space maintainers; (m) repairs and adjustments to prostheses; (n) tissue conditioning; (o) administration of analgesics, anti-inflammatory substances and antibiotics that a supervising dentist orders; and (p) other closely related procedures that the board authorizes through rules it has adopted and promulgated; and (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: (a) preparation and direct restoration of cavities in primary and permanent teeth; and (b) fitting, shaping and cementing of stainless steel crowns on teeth prepared by a dentist. 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. Effective dates. — Laws 2019, ch. 107, § 19 made Laws 2019, ch. 107, § 9 effective June 14, 2019.
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