Definitions
These are intraoral treatment tasks which, when performed, are irreversible and create unalterable changes within the oral cavity or the contiguous structures or which cause an increased risk to the patient.
What are Irremediable tasks?
This official 11-member governing body, appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate, is created within the department to carry out the provisions of Florida's Dental Practice Act.
What is the Board of Dentistry?
If a dental hygiene applicant fails the prophylaxis portion of the practical or clinical examination, the applicant must retake this.
What is the entire examination?
This is the recording of visual observations of clinical conditions of the oral cavity without the use of X rays, laboratory tests, or other diagnostic methods or equipment, except the instruments necessary to record visual restorations, missing teeth, suspicious areas, and periodontal pockets.
What is dental charting?
What type of screening must applicants complete every 5 years as part of the new background-screening requirement (House Bill 975)?
What is Electronic fingerprinting?
These are intraoral treatment tasks which are reversible and do not create unalterable changes within the oral cavity or the contiguous structures and which do not cause an increased risk to the patient.
What are Remediable tasks?
Of the 11 total positions on the Florida Board of Dentistry, this specific number must be filled by licensed, actively practicing dental hygienists.
What is 2? (7 dentists & 2 non-dental)
TRUE OR FALSE: If an applicant fails one portion of the dental hygiene practical examination, they must always retake the entire examination.
What is FALSE? (only required to take the portion failed if reapplies within 12months)
This is the type of survey a dental hygienist may perform dental charting for without supervision?
What is Epidemiological surveys for public health?
Any licensee or applicant for licensure who is a carrier of the hepatitis B virus is required to do this.
What is notify the FL Board of Dentistry?
This is the practice of rendering of educational, preventive, and therapeutic dental services pursuant to ss. 466.023 and 466.024 and any related extra-oral procedure required in the performance of such services.
What is Dental Hygiene?
To qualify for appointment to the board, a licensed dentist must have been primarily engaged as a clinical practitioner for at least this many consecutive years immediately before being chosen.
What is 5 years?
A licensed DENTIST must complete at least this many hours of continuing professional education every two years.
What are 30 hours?
Clearance by one of these 2 professionals is required before a periodontal probe may be used on a person who receives a dental charting.
Who is a physician or a dentist?
This TYPE of prescription shall be dated and signed by the dentist and shall include the license number of the dentist, the patient’s name or number with sufficient descriptive information to clearly identify each separate and individual piece of work to be performed, and a specification of materials to be contained in each work product.
What is a written Lab Prescription (Lab Script)?
A program or an institution of the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Health, the Department of Juvenile Justice, a nonprofit community health center, a Head Start center, a federally qualified health center or look-alike as defined by federal law, a school-based prevention program, a clinic operated by an accredited college of dentistry, or an accredited dental hygiene program in this state if such community service program or institution immediately reports to the Board of Dentistry...is called this TYPE of SETTING?
What is Health Access Setting?
To ensure age diversity in regulatory oversight, Florida law explicitly mandates that at least one member of the Board of Dentistry must fall into this specific age bracket.
What is 60 years of age or older?
At least this many hours of a dentist's continuing education must cover the safe and effective prescribing of controlled substances.
What are 2 hours?
When a dental hygienist performs dental charting without supervision, this is NOT considered to have been created.
A patient of record or medical record.
A copy of the written lab prescription shall be retained in a file in the prescribing dentist’s office for a period of THIS MANY years following the date the prescription was issued, and the original prescription shall be retained in a file by the dental laboratory for a period of the same amount.
What is 4 years?
This type of PROGRAM allows preventive oral health services offered at a SCHOOL by one of the entities defined in subsection (15) or by a nonprofit organization that is exempt from federal income taxation under s. 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, and described in s. 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
What is a School-Based Prevention Program?
While board members are officially appointed to standard 4-year terms, this is the absolute maximum number of total years any individual is legally permitted to serve.
What is 10 years?
A certified registered dental hygienist who administers local anesthesia must notify the Board within this amount of time after an adverse incident.
What is 48 hours?
Before receiving dental charting, the patient, parent, or legal guardian must receive and acknowledge THIS stating that the purpose of the dental charting is to collect data for use by a dentist at a prompt subsequent examination.
What is a written disclosure form?
Every practitioner of dentistry or dental hygiene shall post and keep conspicuously displayed THIS in the office wherein she or he practices, in plain sight of the practitioner’s patients.
What is their Dental or Dental Hygiene License?