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Dental Hygiene Professional Practice Index Published The SUNY Albany Workforce Center has conducted a study, based on 2001 data, that creates a statistical index that defines the professional practice environment of dental hygienists in the U.S. The study determines the extent to which the scope of practice index scores are related to the number of dental hygienists and dentists, utilization of oral health services and outcomes, access to care for the underserved, and salaries for dental hygienists. The entire
study is available on the United States Department of Health and Human
Services, Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA)
Web site. Self-Regulation and Patient Safety "The dental hygiene profession has progressed less quickly than most other health professions. This is largely due to the regulation of the profession by dentistry. Self-regulation provides a profession with the autonomy to govern licensed professionals within the boundaries of patient safety while maintaining or elevating the profession by encouraging expertise in professional practice. The regulation of hygienists by the profession of dentistry limits the hygienist profession to practice consistent with the prerogatives of another profession. This situation is at variance with the prevailing standard of self-regulation by most health professions. Self regulation through dental hygiene boards or committees within states would permit hygienists to have some needed professional control while still ensuring the quality of preventive and prophylactic services provided to patients." US Department of Health and Human Services
Bureau of Health Professions, The Professional Practice Environment of
Dental Hygienists in the Fifty States and the District of Columbia, 2001,
Published April 2004.
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