2025
RDHAP LAW AND ETHICS TEST EXAM 2025 WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE
ANSWERS
Committee: - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means the Dental Hygiene
Committee of California
Dental Board - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means the Dental Board of
California
Direct supervision - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means the supervision
of dental procedures based on instructions given by a licensed dentist
who is required to be physically present in the ttx facility during the
performance of those procedures
,General Supervision - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means the
supervision of dental procedures based on instructions given by a
licensed dentist who is not required to be physically present in the
treatment facility during the performance of those procedures
Oral Prophylaxis - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ means preventive and
therapeutic dental procedures that include bacterial debridements with
complete removal, supra and subgingivally, of calculus, soft deposits,
plaque and stains, and the smoothing of tooth surfaces. The objective of
this treatment is to create an environment in which the patient can
maintain healthy hard and soft tissues.
• BPC 1907: RDH Duties - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ •All functions
that may be performed by a registered dental assistant
•Authorized to perform the duties of RDA as of December 31, 2005
•Dental hygiene assessment and development, planning and
implementation of a dental hygiene care plan
•Oral health education, counseling, and health screening
•Use of any material or device approved for use in the performance of a
service or procedure within his or her scope of practice
• BPC 1908: Limitations of RDH functions - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ •diagnosis and comprehensive ttx planning
•placing, condensing, carving or removal of permanent restorations
•surgery or cutting on hard and soft tissue including, but not limited to,
the removal of teeth and the cutting and suturing of soft tissue
, •prescribing medication
•administering local or general anesthesia or oral or parenteral conscious
sedation, except for the administration of nitrous oxide and oxygen,
whether administered alone or in combination with each other, or local
anesthesia pursuant to Section
• BPC 1909: Direct Supervision - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
•Allowed to perform the following under direct supervision of a licensed
dentist:
1. Soft -tissue curettage,
2. Administration of local anesthesia,
3. Administration of nitrous oxide and oxygen
• BPC 1910: General Supervision - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
•Allowed to perform the following under general supervision:
•Preventive and therapeutic interventions, including oral prophylaxis,
scaling, and root planning
•Application of topical therapeutic and subgingival agents used for the
control of caries and PD
•Taking impressions for bleaching trays and application and activation of
agents with non-laser, light-curing devices
•Taking of impressions for bleaching trays and placement of in-office,
tooth-whitening devices