Healthcare Branch
Colorado Dental Board

Rulemaking Hearing, April 30, 2015

Proposed Changes with Statement of Basis, Purpose, and Authority

Basis and Purpose:  To implement House Bill 14-1227, which went into effect on July 1, 2015 and concerns the continuation of the State Board of Dental Examiners (now the Colorado Dental Board) and other statutory changes to the Dental Practice Law of Colorado (now the Dental Practice Act); and to amend Rule XIII to be consistent with statute, update Rule XIV, and further clarify Rule XXIV.  

Statement of Authority:  Pursuant to section 12-35-107(1)(b), C.R.S., the Colorado Dental Board shall “[m]ake, publish, declare, and periodically review reasonable rules as necessary to carry out and make effective the powers and duties of the board as vested in it” by Article 35 of Title 12. 

Pursuant to section 12-35-140(4)(a), C.R.S., the Colorado Dental Board “shall establish, by rule, minimum training, experience, and equipment requirements for the administration of local anesthesia, analgesia including nitrous oxide/xygen inhalation, and medication prescribed or administered for the relief of anxiety or apprehension, minimal sedation, moderate sedation, deep sedation, or general anesthesia, including procedures that may be used by and minimum training requirements for dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants.”

Pursuant to section 12-35-140(5), C.R.S., the Colorado Dental Board “shall establish, by rule, criteria and procedures for an office inspection program to be completed upon application and renewal of anesthesia or sedation permits”…