Rule 24.138.419 - LIMITED PRESCRIPTIVE AUTHORITY - QUALIFICATIONS - ALLOWABLE PERCENTAGES OF TOPICAL AGENTS(1) Education and competency for dental hygiene prescriptive authority will be accomplished by completion of a pharmacology course.(a) meeting the requirements of ARM 24.138.407(1)(a) and shall include a pharmacology course;(b) maintaining three credit hours of continuing education each three-year renewal cycle to include courses in: (ii) topical oral anesthetics; or(iii) nonsystemic oral antimicrobials; and(c) meeting the requirements of ARM 24.138.2104.(2) Allowable percentages of prescribed agents are:(a) topical anti-caries treatments (using sodium fluoride unless otherwise stated): (i) toothpastes - 1.1 percent (or stannous fluoride 0.4 percent);(ii) topical gels - 1.1 percent (or stannous fluoride 0.4 percent);(iii) oral rinses - 0.05 percent, 0.2 percent, 0.44 percent, or 0.5 percent, or oral rinse concentrate at 0.63 percent stannous fluoride;(iv) fluoride varnish - 5 percent;(v) prophy paste - 1.25 percent;(vi) fluoride paste - 5 percent; and(vii) silver diamine fluoride - 38 percent.(b) topical oral anesthetic agents: (i) up to 20 percent benzocaine;(ii) up to 2 percent viscous lidocaine; and(iii) cetacaine to include 14 percent benzocaine, 2 percent butamben, and 2 percent tetracaine hydrochloride; and(c) nonsystemic oral antimicrobials: (i) chlorhexidine gluconate rinses - 0.12 percent.Mont. Admin. r. 24.138.419
NEW, 2018 MAR p. 1279, Eff.7/7/2018; AMD, 2019 MAR p. 2366, Eff. 12/28/2019; AMD, 2024 MAR p. 2205, Eff. 9/21/2024AUTH: 37-1-131, 37-4-205, 37-4-401, MCA; IMP: 37-1-131, 37-4-401, 37-4-405, MCA