P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 94e
Dental hygienists duly authorized and registered to practice in Puerto Rico may only practice and work, as such, under the direction or supervision of an odontologist duly authorized to practice the profession in Puerto Rico, either in the latter’s office or in any other place duly qualified for such practice or in any other place duly qualified of a government department, agency or organization or of a municipality.
The work of the dental hygienist does not include oral pathology diagnostic, prescriptions or medicines and oral prosthesis, nor clinical procedures of irreversible character. The Board of Dental Examiners shall assign the work that the dental hygienist may, by regulation, practice which shall be approved and promulgated in accordance with the Rules and Regulations Act of 1958. The Board of Dental Examiners shall publish said regulations during at least two (2) days in a newspaper of general circulation in Puerto Rico so that the persons concerned may be duly informed of its contents.
History —Aug. 8, 1925, No. 75, p. 550, added as § 14D on June 23, 1971, No. 74, p. 216, § 5, eff. 60 days after June 23, 1971.