Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 195 - Board of Dentistry
Chapter 15 - Duties for Dental Assistants and the Rules Regulating the Practice of Dental Hygiene
Section 195:15-1-5 - Duties not assignable to dental assistants

(1) Any procedure that may contribute to or result in an irreversible alteration of the human oral anatomy;

(2) Diagnosis;

(3) Treatment planning;

(4) Prescription of medications;

(5) Removal of fully hardened cement with a high-speed hand piece;

(6) Surgery or the cutting or severance of hard and soft tissue;

(7) Final cementation of a fixed prosthesis or delivery of a removable prosthesis;

(8) Adjustment of a prosthesis intraorally;

(9) Placement or removal of restorative materials in a human oral cavity;

(10) Administration of injectable local anesthesia or any other form of injectable including anesthesia including IV sedation;

(11) Utilization of a laser, high-speed hand piece, power scaler, prophy jet or ultrasonic;

(12) Administration of nitrous oxide;

(13) An expanded duty as set forth in 195:15-1-4, when the dental assistant does not hold a current permit issued by the Board for the expanded duty; and

(14) Those procedures allocated exclusively to dental hygienists or dentists pursuant to the rules or the State Dental Act.