California Code of Regulations › Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations › Division 11 - Dental Hygiene Board of California › Article 1 - Definitions › Section 1100 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
For purposes of this division:
(a) "Administration of local anesthesia"
				means the administration of local anesthetic agents by infiltration injection
				or conductive injection.
(b)
				"Administration of nitrous oxide and oxygen" means the administration of
				nitrous oxide and oxygen when used as an analgesic during dental
				treatment.
(c) "Basic supportive
				dental procedures" means fundamental duties or functions as referenced in
				section 1067 (
l
), title
				16, California Code of Regulations.
(d) "Dental Hygiene Board office" means the
				Dental Hygiene Board office located in Sacramento, California.
(e) "Dental assistant" means an unlicensed
				person as referenced in section
				1067(b), title
				16, California Code of Regulations.
(f) "Dental hygiene assessment" means the
				systematic collection, analysis, and documentation of the oral and general
				health status and patient needs through a variety of methods, including choice
				of radiographs, diagnostic tools, and instruments utilized within the scope of
				dental hygiene practice, for the primary purpose of formulating a dental
				hygiene care or treatment plan.
(g)
				"Dental hygiene care plan" means an organized presentation or list of
				interventions to promote health or prevent disease of the patient's oral
				condition; plan is designed by the dental hygienist and consists of services
				within the scope of dental hygiene practice.
(h) "Dental hygiene preventive services"
				means those services provided by the dental hygienist whose primary purpose is
				to prevent oral disease or pathology and promote oral health and overall
				health.
(i) "Dental hygiene
				therapeutic interventions" means specific procedure or set of procedures,
				provided within the scope of dental hygiene practice, designed to intervene in
				the disease process to produce a therapeutic benefit.
(j) "Dental hygiene treatment plan" means an
				organized presentation or list of interventions to promote health or prevent
				disease of the patient's oral condition designed by the registered dental
				hygienist in alternative practice based on assessment data and consists of
				services within the scope of practice of the registered dental hygienist in
				alternative practice.
(k) "Ethics"
				for the purposes of the examination required by section
				1917(d)
				of the Business and Professions Code, means an act or acts in accordance with
				the California Dental Hygienists' Association's (CDHA's) Policy Manual, Chapter
				2, Code of Ethics for Dental Hygienists (Amended HOD 2015), which is hereby
				incorporated by reference, or the American Dental Hygienists' Association's
				(ADHA's) Bylaws and Code of Ethics (Adopted June 23, 2014), which is hereby
				incorporated by reference, and ADHA Policy Manual, pages 7-12, (Adopted June
				22, 2015), which is hereby incorporated by reference.
(l) "Executive Officer" means the Executive
				Officer appointed by the Dental Hygiene Board.
(m) "Gross trauma" means a burn, deep
				laceration, long laceration and/or puncture to soft tissue, hard tissue, and/or
				bone.
(n) "Licentiate" or
				"Licensee" means any individual licensed or registered by the Dental Hygiene
				Board.
(o) "Periodontal
				debridement" means the process by which hard and soft deposits are removed from
				the supragingival and subgingival surfaces of the teeth, including the
				disruption of bacterial cell walls of nonadherent plaque.
(p) "Periodontal evaluation record" means
				that part of the dental hygiene assessment document pertaining to the clinical
				observations of the gingiva, periodontal pocket probe depths, measurement of
				the location of the free gingival margin/recession, calculation of attachment
				loss, measurement of keratinized/attached gingiva, detection of marginal and
				deep bleeding on probing, detection of suppuration, detection of furcation
				involvement, detection of fremitus and mobility, and assessment of plaque and
				calculus accumulations.
(q)
				"Polishing the coronal surfaces of teeth", or "coronal polishing" means a
				procedure limited to the removal of plaque on and stain from exposed tooth
				surfaces, utilizing an appropriate rotary instrument with rubber cup or brush
				and a polishing agent.
(r) "Refer"
				means the action taken after determining that services are needed beyond the
				dental hygienist's scope of practice to provide and ensure that the patient is
				directed to a healthcare provider who can provide that care.
(s) "Root planing" means the process of
				instrumentation which removes residual calculus and toxic materials from the
				root to produce a clean, smooth surface.
(t) "Scaling" means the removal of calculus
				and dental biofilm from the supragingival and subgingival exposed tooth
				surfaces.
(u) "Soft tissue
				curettage" means the removal of the inflamed soft tissue lateral to the pocket
				wall, which is not subgingival curettage referring to the procedure that is
				performed apical to the epithelial attachment, severing the connective tissue
				attachment down to the osseous crest.
(v) "Treatment facility" for purposes of
				section
				1902
				of the Business and Professions Code, means any place where oral health
				services are provided.
1. New article
				  1 (section
				  1100) and section filed 6-7-2016;
				  operative 10-1-2016 (Register 2016, No. 24).
2. Change without
				  regulatory effect amending division heading and amending subsections (d), (l),
				  (n) and (s) filed 5-10-2022 pursuant to section
				  100, title 1, California Code of
				  Regulations (Register 2022, No. 19).
Note: Authority cited: Section
					 1905,
					 Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections
					 1902,
					 1903,
					 1905,
					 1908,
					 1909,
					 1910,
					 1911,
					 1915,
					 1917,
					 1917.3,
					 1927
					 and
					 1929,
					 Business and Professions Code.