RDH can use lasers, can initiate tip, need appropriate training
Email: “Our current statutes and regulations do not address the use of lasers. .
State: Sec. 08.32.110. Scope of practice of dental hygienists. (a) The role of the dental hygienist is to assist members of the dental profession in providing oral health care to the public. A person licensed to practice the profession of dental hygiene in the state may,
(1) under the general supervision of a licensed dentist, (A) perform preliminary charting and triage to formulate a dental hygiene assessment and dental hygiene treatment plan; (B) remove calcareous deposits, accretions, and stains from the exposed surfaces of the teeth beginning at the epithelial attachment by scaling and polishing techniques; (C) remove marginal overhangs;