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Remove excess cement with an ultrasonic scaler from supragingival surfaces of teeth undergoing orthodontic treatment. DENTAL SEDATION ASSISTANT PERMIT (DSA) BPC, SECTION 1750.5 All duties that a dental assistant is allowed to perform. Monitor patients undergoing conscious sedation or general anesthesia utilizing data from noninvasive instrumentation such as pulse oximeters, electrocardiograms, capnography, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration rate monitoring devices. Evaluation of the condition of a sedated patient shall remain the responsibility of the dentist or other licensed health care professional authorized to administer conscious sedation or general anesthesia, who shall be at the patient’s chairside while conscious sedation or general anesthesia is being administered. Drug identification and draw, limited to identification of appropriate medications, ampule and vial preparation, and withdrawing drugs of correct amount as verified by the supervising licensed dentist. Add drugs, medications, and fluids to intravenous lines using a syringe, provided that a supervising licensed dentist is present at the patient’s chairside, limited to determining patency of intravenous line, selection of injection port, syringe insertion into injection port, occlusion of intravenous line and blood aspiration, line release and injection of drugs for appropriate time interval. The exception to this duty is that the initial dose of a drug or medication shall be administered by the supervising licensed dentist.
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Removal of intravenous lines.
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REGISTERED DENTAL ASSISTANT (RDA) BPC, SECTION 1752.4 All duties that a dental assistant is allowed to perform.
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Mouth-mirror inspections of the oral cavity, to include charting of obvious lesions, existing restorations, and missing teeth. Apply and activate bleaching agents using a non-laser light-curing device. Use of automated caries detection devices and materials to gather information for diagnosis by the dentist. Obtain intraoral images for computer-aided design (CAD), milled restorations.
Pulp vitality testing and recording of findings. Place bases, liners, and bonding agents. Chemically prepare teeth for bonding. Place, adjust, and finish direct provisional restorations.
Fabricate, adjust, cement, and remove indirect provisional restorations, including stainless steel crowns when used as a provisional restoration. Place post-extraction dressings after inspection of the surgical site by the supervising licensed dentist.
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Place periodontal dressings.
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Dry endodontically treated canals using absorbent paper points.
Adjust dentures extraorally.
Remove excess cement from surfaces of teeth with a hand instrument.
Polish coronal surfaces of the teeth. Place ligature ties and archwires.
Remove orthodontic bands. X *A registered dental assistant may only perform the following additional duties if he or she has completed a board- approved registered dental assistant educational program in those duties, or if he or she has provided evidence,
satisfactory to the board, of having completed a board-approved course in those duties. *Remove excess cement with an ultrasonic scaler from supragingival surfaces of teeth undergoing orthodontic treatment. *The allowable duties of an orthodontic assistant permitholder as specified in Section 1750.3. A registered dental assistant shall not be required to complete further instruction in the duties of placing ligature ties and archwires, removing orthodontic bands, and removing excess cement from tooth surfaces with a hand instrument. *The allowable duties of a dental sedation assistant permitholder as specified in Section 1750.5.
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