✨ Dental Council Scopes of Practice
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examination on the patient concerned and who is responsible for patient’s clinical care outcomes.
This interim scope has been gazetted to provide for non-hygiene qualified practitioners, who have been practising dental hygiene up until 18 September 2004, to continue to practise. The Dental Council intends to revoke this scope of practice by 18 September 2009.
Prescribed Qualification⁷
• A minimum of 600 clinical hours’ experience subsequent to 1 July 2001 in the provision of oral health services within the scope of dental auxiliary practice, under the direction and supervision of a dentist or dental specialist who can attest to competency.
Scope for Orthodontic Auxiliary Practice
The scope of practice for orthodontic auxiliaries is set out in the documented “Detailed Scope of Orthodontic Auxiliary Practice” produced and published from time to time by the Dental Council.
Orthodontic auxiliary practice is a subset of the practice of dentistry, and is commensurate with an orthodontic auxiliary’s approved training, experience and competence.
Orthodontic Auxiliaries practise under the direct clinical supervision of a dentist or orthodontist who is present on the premises at which the work is carried out, who has prepared a treatment plan for the patient concerned and who is responsible for patient’s clinical care outcomes.
Orthodontic auxiliaries assist the dentist or orthodontist in implementing orthodontic treatment through performing such orthodontic procedures as taking impressions and making study models, inserting and removing some orthodontic appliances, preparing teeth for bonding, removing bonding composite and banding cement and providing oral health education and advice on the care and maintenance of orthodontic appliances.
Prescribed Qualifications⁸
• A minimum of 600 clinical hours’ experience subsequent to 1 July 2001 in the provision of oral health services within the scope of orthodontic auxiliary practice, under the direction and supervision of a dentist or dental specialist who can attest to competency.
ADDITIONAL SCOPES OF PRACTICE FOR DENTAL HYGIENE AND AUXILIARY PRACTICE
Scope for Administering Local Anaesthetic in Dental Hygiene Practice
Administration of local anaesthetic using dentoalveolar infiltration and inferior dental nerve block techniques under the direct clinical supervision of a dentist or specialist who is present on the premises at which the work is carried out
⁷ The prescribed qualification above will be withdrawn as at 19 September 2004. Thereafter no further applications for registration in this interim scope of practice will be accepted.
⁸ The prescribed qualification above will be withdrawn as at 19 September 2004. Thereafter the prescribed qualification for registration as an orthodontic auxiliary will be an accredited qualification in orthodontic auxiliary practice.
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