California Code of Regulations › Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations › Division 10 - Dental Board of California › Chapter 3 - Dental Auxiliaries › Article 4 - Examinations › Section 1080.1 - General Procedures for Dental Auxiliary Clinical Examinations

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following rules, which are in addition to any other
					 examination rules set forth elsewhere in this chapter, are adopted for the
					 uniform conduct of all dental auxiliary clinical examinations.
(a) Each examinee shall furnish patients,
				  instruments, engines and materials necessary to carry the procedures to
				  completion. The board will provide chairs.
(b) A patient provided by an examinee must be
				  at least 18 years of age and shall be in a health condition acceptable for
				  dental treatment. If conditions indicate a need to consult the patient's
				  physician or for the patient to be premedicated (e.g. high blood pressure,
				  heart murmur, rheumatic fever, heart condition, prosthesis), the examinee must
				  obtain the necessary written medical clearance and/or evidence of premedication
				  before the patient will be accepted. The examiners may, in their discretion,
				  reject a patient who in the opinion of at least two examiners has a condition
				  which interferes with evaluation or which may be hazardous to the patient,
				  other patients, examinees or examiners. A hazardous condition includes, but is
				  not limited to, acute symptomatic hepatitis, active herpetic lesions, acute
				  periodontal or periapical abscesses, or necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
				  Whenever a patient is rejected, the reason for such rejection shall be noted on
				  the examination record and shall be signed by both rejecting
				  examiners.
(c) No person shall be
				  admitted to an examination clinic unless he or she is wearing the appropriate
				  identification badge.
(d) An
				  examinee may be dismissed from the entire examination, and a statement of
				  issues may be filed against the examinee, for acts which interfere with the
				  Board's objective of evaluating professional competence. Such acts include, but
				  are not limited to the following:
(1)
				  Allowing another person to take the examination in the place of, and under the
				  identity of, the examinee.
(2)
				  Bringing any notes, books, pictures, tape recorders, or other unauthorized
				  materials into the examination area.
(3) Assisting another examinee during the
				  examination process.
(4) Using the
				  equipment, instruments, or materials belonging to another examinee.
(5) Presenting radiographs which have been
				  altered, or contrived to represent other than the patient's true condition,
				  whether or not the misleading radiograph was created by the examinee.
(6) Failing to comply with the board's
				  infection control regulations.
(7)
				  Failing to use an aspirating syringe for administering local
				  anesthesia.
(8) Premedicating a
				  patient for purposes of sedation.
(9) Dismissing a patient without the approval
				  and signature of an examiner.
(10)
				  Leaving the assigned examination area without the permission of an exam
				  administrator.
(11) Failing to
				  follow directions relative to the conduct of the examination, including
				  termination of the examination at the scheduled or announced
				  time.