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Relating to requirements for licensees under the purview of the dental board relating to orthodontia services
Topics:State government
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 28, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 4, 2020
- Done: House committeeFebruary 13, 2020
- Done: Passes the HouseMarch 10, 202097–3
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to orthodontia-related services. The bill requires the dental board to adopt administrative rules to require that a licensee under the dental board’s purview who provides treatment for the correction of malpositions of human teeth or initial use of orthodontic appliances to perform an initial in-person examination of the teeth and supporting structures of a new patient prior to beginning orthodontic treatment, unless the patient has been referred to the licensee by another licensee who performed the required initial in-person examination.
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The initial in-person examination of the patient’s teeth and supporting structures must include any appropriate conventional or digital radiographs necessary to develop a suitable orthodontic diagnosis and treatment plan. The bill also requires the dental board to adopt administrative rules to require that a licensee who is a dentist shall only delegate the performance of the scanning of the teeth and supporting structures of a patient under the supervision of a dentist to qualified personnel for whom such treatment is authorized within such person’s scope of practice.
House subcommittee
Named February 4, 2020. On February 12, 2020 it recommended amendment and passage.
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