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Board advances rule review, adopts teledentistry update and reworks RDA radiography language
Summary
The board approved review of chapters 114–116 and adopted a teledentistry rule, and the committee made detailed edits to the RDA registration rule (114.2) to make radiography, infection‑control and image‑labeling requirements explicit.
The Texas State Board of Dental Examiners’ rule‑review committee on Nov. 6 opened and approved a review of chapters 114–116 (auxiliary duties), adopted a teledentistry rule and directed staff to rework language in the rule covering dental assistant registration and radiography instruction.
At the outset the committee approved staff’s recommendation to initiate the statutorily required periodic review of chapters 114–116. “Board staff will file the notice of intention to review and consider for readoption, readoption with amendments, or repeal board rule chapters 114 through 116 pursuant to the board's rule review plan,” staff said. The motion to propose review — including minor cleanups to 114.3 and 115.4 — passed unanimously.
The committee unanimously adopted a proposed amendment to 22 TAC 108.16 (teledentistry) to align the rule…
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