Florida Dental Laws & Rules (Revised 2024)Latest Update

Florida Dental Laws & Rules (Revised 2024)Latest Update DA: Placing or removing temporary restorations with non-mechanical hand instruments only? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training DA: Polishing dental restorations of the teeth when not for the purpose of changing the existing contour of the tooth and only with the following instruments used with appropriate polishing materials - burnishers, slow-speed hand pieces, rubber cups, and bristle brushes? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training DA: Polishing clinical crowns when not for the purpose of changing the existing contour of the tooth and only with the following instruments used with appropriate polishing materials - slow-speed hand pieces, rubber cups, bristle brushes and porte polishers? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training DA: Removing excess cement from dental restorations and appliances with non-mechanical hand instruments only? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training * DA: Cementing temporary crowns and bridges with temporary cement? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training DA: 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? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training * DA: Selecting and pre-sizing orthodontic bands, including the selection of the proper size band for a tooth to be banded which does not include or involve any adapting, contouring, trimming or otherwise modifying the band material such that it would constitute fitting the band? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training DA: Selecting and pre-sizing archwires prescribed by the patient's dentist so long as the dentist makes all final adjustments to bend, arch form determination, and symmetry prior to final placement? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training DA: Selecting prescribed extra-oral appliances by pre-selection or pre-measurement which does not include final fit adjustment? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training DA: Preparing a tooth surface by applying conditioning agents for orthodontic appliances by conditioning or placing of sealant materials which does not include placing brackets? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training DA: Using appropriate implements for preliminary charting of existing restorations and missing teeth and a visual assessment of existing oral conditions? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training* DA: Fabricating temporary crowns or bridges intra-orally which shall not include any adjustment of occlusion to the appliance or existing dentition? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training DA: Packing and removing retraction cord, so long as it does not contain vasoactive chemicals and is used solely for restorative dental procedures? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training* DA: Removing and recementing properly contoured and fitting loose bands that are not permanently attached to any appliance? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training* Dental Assistant: Inserting or removing dressings from alveolar sockets in post-operative osteitis when the patient is uncomfortable due to the loss of a dressing from an alveolar socket in a diagnosed case of post-operative osteitis? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training DA: Making impressions for study casts which are being made for the purpose of fabricating orthodontic retainers? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training DA: Taking of impressions for and delivery of at-home bleaching trays? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training DA: Taking impressions for passive appliance, occlusal guards, space maintainers and protective mouth guards? - ANSWER Direct Supervision/ Formal Training DA: Making impressions for study casts which are not being made for the purpose of fabricating any intra-oral appliances, restorations or orthodontic appliances? - ANSWER Indirect Supervision/ Formal Training