SB 400 — Allowing Board of Dentistry create specialty licenses

(38) “Good moral character” means a lack of history of dishonesty;

(39) “Health care provider BLS/CPR” means health care provider basic life support/cardiopulmonary resuscitation;

(40) “License” means a license to practice dentistry or dental hygiene;

(41) “Licensee” means a person holding a license;

(42) “Mobile dental facility” means any self-contained facility in which dentistry or dental hygiene will be practiced which may be moved, towed, or transported from one location to another;

(43) “Portable dental unit” means any nonfacility in which dental equipment, utilized in the practice of dentistry, is transported to and utilized on a temporary basis in an out-of-office location, including, but not limited to, patients’ homes, schools, nursing homes, or other institutions;

(44) “Other dental practitioner” means those persons excluded from the definition of the practice of dentistry under the provisions of §30-4-24(3), §30-4-24(4), and §30-4-24(5) of this code and also those persons who hold teaching permits which have been issued to them under the provisions of §30-4-14 of this code;

(45) “PALS” means pediatric advanced life support;

(46) “Pediatric patient” means infants and children;

(47) “Physician anesthesiologist” means a physician, medical doctor, or doctor of osteopathy who is specialized in the practice of anesthesiology;

(48) “Public health practice” means treatment or procedures in a public health setting which shall be designated by a rule promulgated by the board to require direct, general, or no supervision of a dental hygienist by a dentist;

(49) “Public health setting” means hospitals, schools, correctional facilities, jails, community clinics, long-term care facilities, nursing homes, home health agencies, group homes, state institutions under the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, public health facilities, homebound settings, accredited dental hygiene education programs, and any other place designated by the board by rule;

(50) “Qualified monitor” means an individual who by virtue of credentialing and/or training is qualified to check closely and document the status of a patient undergoing anesthesia and observe utilized equipment;

(51) “Relative analgesia/minimal sedation” means an induced, controlled state of minimally depressed consciousness, produced solely by the inhalation of a combination of nitrous oxide and oxygen or single oral premedication without the addition of nitrous oxide and oxygen in which the patient retains the ability to independently and continuously maintain an airway and to respond purposefully to physical stimulation and to verbal command;

(52) “Specialty” means the practice of a certain branch of dentistry;

(53) “Subcommittee” means West Virginia Board of Dentistry Subcommittee on Anesthesia;

and (54) “Work authorization” means a written order for dental laboratory services which has been issued by a licensed dentist or other dental practitioner.

 (4)(4) Has passed athe nationalNational boardBoard examination as given by the Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations and a clinical examination administeredas specified by the Commissionboard onby Dentalrule; Competency Assessments, the Central Regional Dental Testing Service, the Council of Interstate Testing Agencies, the Southern Regional Testing Agency, or the Western Regional Examining Board, or the successor to any of those entities, which demonstrates competency, and passed each individual component with no compensatory scoring in:

(4) Has passed a national board examination as given by the Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations and a clinical examination administered by the Commission on Dental Competency Assessments, the Central Regional Dental Testing Service, the Council of Interstate Testing Agencies, the Southern Regional Testing Agency, or the Western Regional Examining Board, or the successor to any of those entities, which demonstrates competency, and passed each individual component with no compensatory scoring in:

and (D) Restorative, including a class II amalgam or composite preparation and restoration and a class III composite preparation and restoration in a patient-based clinical setting;

and (E) The board may consider clinical examinations taken prior to July 1, 2019, or individual state clinical examinations as equivalent which demonstrates competency.

§30-4-8a.§30-4-8a Dental specialties.

Dental(a) specialties.The Board of Dentistry may issue a dental specialty license authorizing a dentist to represent himself or herself to the public as a specialist, and to practice as a specialist, in a dental specialty.

(a) The Board of Dentistry may issue a dental specialty license authorizing a dentist to represent himself or herself to the public as a specialist, and to practice as a specialist, upon proper application and fee for each specialty and as provided pursuant to the provisions of this article.

In addition, any applicant for an orthodontic and dentofacial orthopedic specialty certificate commencing on July 1, 2019, shall submit verification of successful completion of the American Board of Orthodontics written examination.examination;

— In order to qualify for this specialty, the licensee shall have successfully completed a minimum of two full-time academic years of at least eight calendar months each of graduate or post-graduate education, internship, or residency.residency;

— In order to qualify for this specialty, the licensee shall have successfully completed a minimum of two full-time academic years of at least eight calendar months each of graduate or post-graduate education, internship, or residency.residency;

— In order to qualify for this specialty, the licensee shall have successfully completed a minimum of two full-time academic years of at least eight calendar months each of graduate or post-graduate education, internship, or residency.residency;

 (4)(4) Has passed the national board dental hygiene examination, a regional or state clinical examination and a state law examination that tests the applicant’s knowledge of subjects specified by the board by rule (4) Has passed a national board examination as given by the Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations and passed a board-approved patient-based examination designed to determine the applicant’s level of clinical skills;

and (7) Not be Is not an alcohol or drug abuser, as these those terms are defined in §27-1A-11 of this code:

  NOTE:

The purpose of this bill is to permit the West Virginia Board of Dentistry to create specialty licenses.

The bill sets forth those specialty licenses.

The bill changes the specific examination an applicant must pass before being issued a license to practice dentistry.

The bill changes the specific exam an applicant must pass before being issued a license to practice dental hygiene.

The bill defines terms.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.