New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING
Chapter 16 - OPTOMETRIC PRACTITIONERS
Part 18 - IN-OFFICE MINOR SURGICAL PROCEDURES
Section 16.16.18.8 - MINOR SURGICAL PROCEDURES

Universal Citation: 16 NM Admin Code 16.16.18.8

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024

A New Mexico optometric physician can use surgery or injections to correct and relieve the following types of abnormalities of the human eye and its adnexa. The following types of in-office minor surgical procedures are allowed:

A. non-laser removal, destruction or drainage of superficial eyelid lesions and conjunctival cysts;

B. probing, dilation, irrigation or closure of the tear drainage structures or the eyelid; scalpel use is to be applied only for the purpose of use on the skin surrounding the eye;

C. removal of nonperforating foreign bodies from the cornea, conjunctiva and eyelid;

D. non-laser corneal debridement, culture, scrape or anterior puncture, not including removal of pterygium, corneal biopsy or removal of corneal neoplasias; and

E. removal of eyelashes.

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