N.Y. Education Law § 6605-b: Dental hygiene restricted local infiltration anesthesia/nitrous oxide analgesia certificate

§ 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.

2. The commissioner shall promulgate regulations establishing

standards and procedures for the issuance of such certificate. Such

standards shall require completion of an educational program and/or

course of training or experience sufficient to ensure that a dental

hygienist is specifically trained in the administration and monitoring

of nitrous oxide analgesia and local infiltration anesthesia, the

possible effects of such use, and in the recognition of and response to

possible emergency situations.

3. The fee for a dental hygiene restricted local infiltration

anesthesia/nitrous oxide analgesia certificate shall be twenty-five

dollars and shall be paid on a triennial basis upon renewal of such

certificate. A certificate may be suspended or revoked in the same

manner as a license to practice dental hygiene.