                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LIMITATIONS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF DENTAL HYGIENISTS (§ 54.1-2724)

The Board shall determine by regulation the total number of dental hygienists,
including dental hygienists under general supervision and dental hygienists
under remote supervision, who may work at one time for a dentist. No dentist
shall employ more than two dental hygienists who practice under remote
supervision at one time. The State Board of Health may employ the necessary
number of hygienists in public school dental clinics, subject to regulations of
the Board.

HISTORY: 1950, p. 984, § 54-200.6; 1972, c. 805; 1978, c. 247; 1988, c. 765;
2016, c. 497.