New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT › Chapter II - Regulations of the Commissioner › Subchapter A - Higher and Professional Education › Part 52 - Registration of Curricula › Section 52.9 - Dental hygiene

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) For
				  licensure qualifying programs, admission requirements shall include successful
				  completion of an approved four-year course of study in an approved secondary
				  school.
(b) Requirements for
				  programs leading to the dental hygiene restricted local infiltration
				  anesthesia/nitrous oxide analgesia certificate.
(1) Definitions. As used in this subdivision:
(i) Analgesia means the diminution of
				  pain.
(ii) Anxiolysis means the
				  diminution or elimination of anxiety.
(iii) Conscious sedation means a minimally
				  depressed level of consciousness that retains the patient's ability to
				  independently and continuously maintain an airway and respond appropriate to
				  physical stimulation and verbal command and that is produced by a pharmacologic
				  or nonpharmacologic method or a combination thereof. Patients whose only
				  response is reflex withdrawal from repeated painful stimuli shall not be
				  considered to be in a state of conscious sedation.
(iv) Deep sedation means an induced state of
				  depressed consciousness accompanied by partial loss of protective reflexes,
				  including the inability to continually maintain and airway independently and/or
				  to response purposefully to physical stimulation or verbal command, and is
				  produced by a pharmacologic or nonpharmacologic method or a combination
				  thereof.
(v) General anesthesia
				  means an induced state of unconsciousness, accompanied by partial or complete
				  loss of protective reflexes, including the inability to maintain an airway
				  independently and response purposefully to physical stimulation or verbal
				  command, and is produced by a pharmacologic or nonpharmacologic method or a
				  combination thereof.
(vi)
				  Infiltration anesthesia means local anesthetic solution deposited near the
				  terminal nerve endings in the area of prospective dental hygiene
				  treatment.
(vii) Local anesthesia
				  means the elimination of sensation, especially pain, in one part of the body by
				  topical application or regional injection of a drug.
(viii) Local infiltration anesthesia means
				  the administration of a local anesthetic solution, meant for the elimination of
				  sensation, especially pain, in one part of the body by the regional injection
				  of a drug, near the terminal nerve endings in the area of prospective dental
				  hygiene treatment.
(ix) Nitrous
				  oxide analgesia means the administration of a combination of nitrous oxide and
				  oxygen producing a diminution of pain and anxiety (anxiolysis).
(x) Scavenging system means the basic
				  engineering control for waste nitrous oxide gas. Such systems collect waste gas
				  and ventilate it from the operating room.
(xi) Under person supervision of a licensed
				  dentist means that the supervising licensed dentist remains in the dental
				  office or other location where the local infiltration anesthesia or nitrous
				  oxide analgesia services are being performed by the licensed dental hygienist
				  or other student in clinical practice in a program registered pursuant to this
				  subdivision, personally authorizes and prescribes the use of local infiltration
				  anesthesia or nitrous oxide analgesia for the patient and, before dismissal of
				  the patient, personally examines the condition of the patient after the use of
				  local infiltration anesthesia or nitrous oxide analgesia that is administered
				  by the licensed dental hygienist or other student in clinical practice in a
				  program registered pursuant to this subdivision is completed.