Section 1080.1 - [Repealed operative 1/1/2025] General Procedures for Dental Auxiliary Clinical ExaminationsThe following rules, which are in addition to any other examination rules set forth elsewhere in this chapter, are adopted for the uniform conduct of all dental auxiliary clinical examinations.
(a) Each examinee shall furnish patients, instruments, engines and materials necessary to carry the procedures to completion. The board will provide chairs.(b) A patient provided by an examinee must be at least 18 years of age and shall be in a health condition acceptable for dental treatment. If conditions indicate a need to consult the patient's physician or for the patient to be premedicated (e.g. high blood pressure, heart murmur, rheumatic fever, heart condition, prosthesis), the examinee must obtain the necessary written medical clearance and/or evidence of premedication before the patient will be accepted. The examiners may, in their discretion, reject a patient who in the opinion of at least two examiners has a condition which interferes with evaluation or which may be hazardous to the patient, other patients, examinees or examiners. A hazardous condition includes, but is not limited to, acute symptomatic hepatitis, active herpetic lesions, acute periodontal or periapical abscesses, or necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis. Whenever a patient is rejected, the reason for such rejection shall be noted on the examination record and shall be signed by both rejecting examiners.(c) No person shall be admitted to an examination clinic unless he or she is wearing the appropriate identification badge.(d) An examinee may be dismissed from the entire examination, and a statement of issues may be filed against the examinee, for acts which interfere with the Board's objective of evaluating professional competence. Such acts include, but are not limited to the following: (1) Allowing another person to take the examination in the place of, and under the identity of, the examinee.(2) Bringing any notes, books, pictures, tape recorders, or other unauthorized materials into the examination area.(3) Assisting another examinee during the examination process.(4) Using the equipment, instruments, or materials belonging to another examinee.(5) Presenting radiographs which have been altered, or contrived to represent other than the patient's true condition, whether or not the misleading radiograph was created by the examinee.(6) Failing to comply with the board's infection control regulations.(7) Failing to use an aspirating syringe for administering local anesthesia.(8) Premedicating a patient for purposes of sedation.(9) Dismissing a patient without the approval and signature of an examiner.(10) Leaving the assigned examination area without the permission of an exam administrator.(11) Failing to follow directions relative to the conduct of the examination, including termination of the examination at the scheduled or announced time.(e) An examinee may be declared by the board to have failed the entire examination for demonstration of gross incompetence in treating a patient.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 16, § 1080.1
Note: Authority cited: Section 1614, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections 1753, 1756, 1758 and 1761, Business and Professions Code.
Note: Authority cited: Section 1614, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections 1753, 1756, 1758 and 1761, Business and Professions Code.
1. New section filed 2-13-98; operative 3-15-98 (Register 98, No. 7).
2. New subsection (b) and subsection relettering filed 3-26-99; operative 3-26-99 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(d)(Register 99, No. 13).
3. Repealer filed 11-20-2024; operative 1/1/2025 (Register 2024, No. 47).