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HEALTH (DRUGS AND POISONS) REGULATION 1996 - REG 248

Dental hygienists

248 Dental hygienists

To the extent necessary to perform a dental hygienist’s functions as a dental hygienist, a dental hygienist is authorised to administer the following S2 and S 3 poisons—

(a) fluorides in preparations for topical human therapeutic use;
(b) lignocaine when in preparations for topical human therapeutic use (other than eye drops) that contain not more than 10% lignocaine;
(c) silver salts;
(d) adrenalin of a strength of not more than 0.1%, if administered by a pre-loaded device for the management of anaphylaxis.
Example for paragraph (d)—
an EpiPen



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