New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING
Chapter 5 - DENTISTRY (DENTISTS, DENTAL HYGIENISTS, ETC.)
Part 65 - DENTAL THERAPISTS, PRACTICE
Section 16.5.65.9 - LIMITATIONS ON PRACTICE
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
Dental therapists shall not perform, or attempt to perform, the following services or procedures:
A. diagnosis;
B. Dental treatment planning that has not been authorized by a supervising dentist;
C. the final fitting, adaptation, seating and cementation of any fixed or removable dental appliance or restoration except stainless steel crowns on teeth prepared by a dentist and the cementation of single tooth crowns previously cemented by a dentist;
D. final impressions for restorations or prosthetic appliances except single tooth removable prostheses;
E. administration of substances outside of a dental hygienist prescriptive authority as defined in 16.5.29.11 NMAC or under the orders of a prescribing dentist;
F. other services defined as the practice of dentistry in Subsection A of Section 61-5A-4 NMSA 1978 of the act and not specifically listed in Subsection B and C of Section 61-5A-4 NMSA 1978, unless exempted by regulation.
