Section 36-6A-41 - Dental auxiliaries--Education and training--Dentist's responsibility--Unauthorizedpractice.
36-6A-41. Dental auxiliaries--Education and training--Dentist's responsibility--Unauthorized practice. The Board of Dentistry may set educational and training requirements for dental assistants, including the practice of dental radiography and the monitoring of nitrous oxide administration by dental assistants. Every licensed dentist who uses the services of a dental assistant to assist him in the practice of dentistry is responsible for the acts of the dental assistant while engaged in such assistance. The dentist shall permit the dental assistant to perform only those acts which he is authorized under this chapter to delegate to a dental assistant. The acts shall be performed under supervision of a licensed dentist. The board may permit differing levels of dental assistance based upon recognized educational standards, approved by the board, for the training of dental assistants. Any licensed dentist who permits a dental auxiliary to perform any dental or dental hygiene service other than that authorized by the board shall be deemed to be enabling an unlicensed person to be practicing dentistry or dental hygiene, and commission of the act by a dental auxiliary is a violation of this chapter.
Source: SL 1971, ch 213, § 35; SL 1981, ch 275, § 30; SL 1984, ch 250, § 7; SL 1992, ch 269, § 52.