Wisconsin Administrative Code
Dentistry Examining Board
Chapter DE 3 - Practice Of Dental Hygiene
Section DE 3.02 - Practice of dental hygiene
Universal Citation: WI Admin Code ยง DE 3.02
Current through August 26, 2024
(1)
(a) This subsection applies to a dental
hygienist who is practicing dental hygiene or performing remediable procedures
as an employee or as an independent contractor in a dental office.
(b) A dental hygienist may practice dental
hygiene or perform remediable procedures only as authorized by a licensed
dentist who is present in the facility in which those practices or procedures
are performed, except as provided in par. (c).
(c) A dental hygienist may practice dental
hygiene or perform remediable procedures if a licensed dentist is not present
in the facility in which those practices or procedures are performed only if
all of the following conditions are met:
1.
The dental hygiene practices or remediable procedures are performed under a
written or oral prescription.
2.
The dentist who made the written or oral prescription has examined the patient
at least once during the 12-month period immediately preceding all of the
following:
a. The date on which the written or
oral prescription was made.
b. The
date on which the dental hygiene practices or remediable procedures are
performed.
3. The
written or oral prescription specifies the practices and procedures that the
dental hygienist may perform with the informed consent of the patient or, if
applicable, the patients parent or legal guardian.
(2)
(a) This subsection applies to a dental
hygienist who is practicing dental hygiene or performing remediable procedures
as an employee or as an independent contractor as follows:
1. For a school board, a governing body of a
private school, as defined in s.
115.001(3d),
Stats., or a governing body of a tribal school, as defined in s.
115.001(15m),
Stats.
2. For a school for the
education of dentists or dental hygienists.
3. For a state or federal prison, county jail
or other federal, state, county or municipal correctional or detention
facility, or a facility established to provide care for terminally ill
patients.
4. For a local health
department, as defined in s.
250.01(4),
Stats.
5. For a charitable
institution open to the general public or to members of a religious sect or
order.
6. For a nonprofit home
health care agency.
7. For a
nonprofit dental care program serving primarily indigent, economically
disadvantaged or migrant worker populations.
8. At a facility, as defined in s.
50.01(1m),
Stats., an adult family home certified under s.
50.032,
Stats. or licensed under s.
50.033,
Stats., an adult day care center, as defined in s.
49.45(47) (a), Stats., a community rehabilitation
program, a hospital, as defined in s.
50.33(2),
Stats., or a facility that is primarily operated to provide outpatient medical
services.
(b) A dental
hygienist may only practice dental hygiene, as defined in s.
447.01(3),
Stats., or perform remediable procedures, as defined in s.
447.01(12),
Stats.
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