2005 Idaho Code - 54-903 — GENERAL DEFINITIONS

                                  TITLE  54
                    PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
                                  CHAPTER 9
                                   DENTISTS
    54-903.  GENERAL DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
    (1)  "Association" means the Idaho state dental association and the Idaho
dental hygienists' association.
    (2)  "Board" means the state board of dentistry.
    (3)  "Dental assistant" is a person who need not be licensed under this
chapter, but who is regularly employed by a dentist at his office, who works
under the dentist's supervision, and is adequately trained and qualified
according to standards established by the board to perform the dental services
permitted to be performed by assistants by this chapter and applicable rules
of the board.
    (4)  "Dental hygienist" is a person both qualified and licensed by the
laws of Idaho to practice dental hygiene.
    (5)  "Dental specialist" is a dentist who limits his practice to a
specialty recognized by the American dental association, who has graduated
from a board-approved postgraduate program in his specialty and is a person
both qualified and licensed by the laws of Idaho to practice a dental
specialty.
    (6)  "Dentist" is a person both qualified and licensed by the laws of
Idaho to practice dentistry.
    (7)  "Direct supervision" is supervision of a dental assistant or dental
hygienist requiring that a dentist diagnose the condition to be treated, a
dentist authorize the procedure to be performed, a dentist remain in the
dental office while the procedure is performed,  and that before dismissal of
the patient, a dentist approves the work performed by the dental assistant or
dental hygienist.
    (8)  "Extended access oral health care program" means and includes dental
and dental hygiene treatment and services provided as part of a program
conducted by or through a local, county, state or federal agency, hospital,
long-term care facility, public health district, dental or dental hygiene
school, tribal clinic, or migrant health center; or such other oral health
care program approved on an annual basis by the board and conducted by or
through a public or private entity, recognized under section 501(c)(3) of the
federal Internal Revenue Code, to provide free or reduced fee dental and
dental hygiene services to persons who, due to age, infirmity, handicap,
indigence or disability, are unable to receive regular dental and dental
hygiene treatment in a private office.
    (9)  "General supervision" is supervision of a dental assistant or dental
hygienist requiring that a dentist authorize the procedure which is carried
out, but not requiring that a dentist be in the office when the authorized
procedure is performed.
    (10) "Indirect supervision" is supervision of a dental assistant or dental
hygienist requiring that a dentist authorize a procedure and that a dentist be
in the dental office while the procedure is performed by the assistant or
hygienist.