RDHAP law & ethics (2025) ACTUAL EXAM
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The practice of dental hygiene includes dental
hygiene assessment and development, planning,
The practice of dental
and implementation of a dental hygiene care plan. It
hygiene includes
also includes oral health education, counseling, and
health screenings
) Diagnosis and comprehensive treatment planning.
(2) Placing, condensing, carving, or removal of
permanent restorations.
(3) Surgery or cutting on hard and soft tissue
The practice of dental including, but not limited to, the removal of teeth
hygiene does not include and the cutting and suturing of soft tissue.
any of the following (4) Prescribing medication.
procedures (5) 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 1909.
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A registered dental (a) Soft-tissue curettage.
hygienist is authorized to (b) Administration of local anesthesia.
perform the following (c) Administration of nitrous oxide and oxygen,
procedures under direct whether administered alone or in combination with
supervision of a licensed each other.
dentist, after submitting
to the dental hygiene
board evidence of
satisfactory completion
of a course of instruction,
approved by the dental
hygiene board, in the
procedures:
a) Preventive and therapeutic interventions,
including oral prophylaxis, scaling, and root planing.
(b) Application of topical, therapeutic, and
A registered dental
subgingival agents used for the control of caries
hygienist is authorized to
and periodontal disease.
perform the following
(c) The taking of impressions for bleaching trays and
procedures under
application and activation of agents with nonlaser,
general supervision:
light-curing devices.
(d) The taking of impressions for bleaching trays and
placements of in-office, tooth-whitening devices.
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b) A registered dental hygienist shall refer any
screened patients with possible oral abnormalities
to a dentist for a comprehensive examination,
diagnosis, and treatment plan.
(c) In any public health program created by federal,
A registered dental
state, or local law or administered by a federal,
hygienist may provide,
state, county, or local governmental entity, a
without supervision,
registered dental hygienist may provide, without
educational services, oral
supervision, dental hygiene preventive services in
health training programs,
addition to oral screenings, including, but not
and oral health
limited to, the application of fluorides and pit and
screenings.
fissure sealants. A registered dental hygienist
employed as described in this subdivision may
submit, or allow to be submitted, any insurance or
third-party claims for patient services performed as
authorized in this article.
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