ARM 24.138.419. LIMITED PRESCRIPTIVE AUTHORITY – QUALIFICATIONS – ALLOWABLE PERCENTAGES OF TOPICAL AGENTS

(1) Education and competency for dental hygiene prescriptive authority will be accomplished by completion of a pharmacology course. (2) Allowable percentages of prescribed agents are: (a) topical anti-caries treatments (using sodium fluoride unless otherwise stated): (i) toothpastes – 1.1 percent (or stannous fluoride 0.4 percent); (ii) topical gels – 1.1 percent (or stannous fluoride 0.4 percent); (iii) oral rinses – 0.05 percent, 0.2 percent, 0.44 percent, or 0.5 percent, or oral rinse concentrate at 0.63 percent stannous fluoride; (iv) fluoride varnish – 5 percent; (v) prophy paste – 1.25 percent; (vi) fluoride paste – 5 percent; and (vii) silver diamine fluoride – 38 percent. (b) topical oral anesthetic agents: (i) up to 20 percent benzocaine; (ii) up to 2 percent viscous lidocaine; and (iii) cetacaine to include 14 percent benzocaine, 2 percent butamben, and 2 percent tetracaine hydrochloride; and (c) nonsystemic oral antimicrobials: (i) chlorhexidine gluconate rinses – 0.12 percent.