“Dental hygiene” defined.

NRS 631.030, under DENTISTRY, DENTAL HYGIENE, DENTAL THERAPY AND EXPANDED FUNCTION DENTAL ASSISTANCE.

NRS 631.030

NRS 631.030 “Dental hygiene” defined. “Dental hygiene” means the performance of educational, preventive and therapeutic periodontal treatment including scaling, curettage and planing of roots and any related and required intraoral or extraoral procedures that a dentist is authorized to assign to a dental hygienist. [Part 2:152:1951]—(NRS A 1971, 531; 1981, 1969; 1983, 1110; 2003, 519)