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The Dental Auxiliaries (Amendment) Regulations 2002
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These Regulations further amend the Dental Auxiliaries Regulations 1986.
Regulations 3 and 4 extend the work permitted to be carried out by dental hygienists and dental therapists to include removal of excess cement, taking impressions, administration of inferior dental nerve block anaesthesia and replacing crowns which have been dislodged with a temporary cement. They are also permitted to carry out dental work on a patient under local or regional block anaesthesia administered by a registered dentist, or, provided there is a registered dentist in the room in which the dental work is carried out throughout the procedure, under conscious sedation. Dental therapists are also permitted to undertake pulp therapy and place pre-formed crowns for the purpose of restoring primary teeth and they are no longer subject to the restrictions on dental work which requires it to be carried out in the course of providing national health services.
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