HB4501 Summary

• Expands "public health setting" definition to include prisons and long-term care facilities where public health dental hygienists can practice.

• Increases income threshold for patients eligible for services by public health dental hygienists and dental assistants performing coronal scaling from 200% to 300% of federal poverty level.

• Allows dentists to use teledentistry communication methods (in addition to in-person exams) for examining and diagnosing patients in long-term care facilities, mental health facilities, and prisons before dental hygienist treatment.

• Reduces timeframe for implementing dental orders in long-term care facilities from 120 days to 45 days.

• Modifies training requirements for dental assistants performing coronal scaling and adds intracoronal temporization as an expanded function for dental assistants.