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Board asks CSDA to sponsor bill allowing dental assistants to take X‑rays and proposes adding trafficking training to CE

Dental Board · December 10, 2025
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Chairman Katz told the board he has contacted the CSDA to sponsor legislation that would permit dental assistants (not hygienists) to take X‑rays without a doctor present and relayed a CSDA request to expand mandatory continuing education to include human‑trafficking awareness and assault/domestic‑abuse response.

In board updates the chair said he has been in touch with the CSDA to request sponsorship of legislation to permit dental assistants to take X‑rays without a doctor present; he noted hygienists are already permitted to take X‑rays in the office without the doctor on site. The chair…

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