Governor Hochul Signs NYSDA Dental Hygiene Bill Into Law
On May 9, 2022, Governor Hochul signed into law, as Chapter 198 of the Laws of 2022, the NYSDA dental hygiene bill to allow dental hygienists to use nitrous oxide and local infiltration anesthesia to assist dentists with all dental procedures. A copy of the new law is below (and the bill signed into law is below that). The law is effective immediately.
New York State Education Law:
§ 6605-b. Dental hygiene restricted local infiltration anesthesia/nitrous oxide analgesia certificate.
1. A dental hygienist shall not administer or monitor nitrous oxide analgesia or local infiltration anesthesia in the practice of dental hygiene without a dental hygiene restricted local infiltration anesthesia/nitrous oxide analgesia certificate and except under the personal supervision of a dentist and in accordance with regulations promulgated by the commissioner. Personal supervision, for purposes of this section, means that the supervising dentist remains in the dental office where the local infiltration anesthesia or nitrous oxide analgesia services are being performed, 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 is completed. It is professional misconduct for a dentist to fail to provide the supervision required by this section, and any dentist found guilty of such misconduct under the procedures prescribed in section sixty-five hundred ten of this title shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in section sixty-five hundred eleven of this title.
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STATE OF NEW YORK |
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6694--B
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
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IN SENATE |
May 12, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Educa-
tion -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance
with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to dental hygiene prac-
tice and local infiltration anesthesia and nitrous oxide
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6605-b of the education law, as
2 added by chapter 437 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. A dental hygienist shall not administer or monitor nitrous oxide
4 analgesia or local infiltration anesthesia in the practice of dental
5 hygiene without a dental hygiene restricted local infiltration
6 anesthesia/nitrous oxide analgesia certificate and except under the
7 personal supervision of a dentist [and in conjunction with the perform-
8 ance of dental hygiene procedures authorized by law] and in accordance
9 with regulations promulgated by the commissioner. Personal supervision,
10 for purposes of this section, means that the supervising dentist remains
11 in the dental office where the local infiltration anesthesia or nitrous
12 oxide analgesia services are being performed, personally authorizes and
13 prescribes the use of local infiltration anesthesia or nitrous oxide
14 analgesia for the patient and, before dismissal of the patient,
15 personally examines the condition of the patient after the use of local
16 infiltration anesthesia or nitrous oxide analgesia is completed. It is
17 professional misconduct for a dentist to fail to provide the supervision
18 required by this section, and any dentist found guilty of such miscon-
19 duct under the procedures prescribed in section sixty-five hundred ten
20 of this title shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in section
21 sixty-five hundred eleven of this title.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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