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422Chapter 18 – Summary of Proposals for Implementationand to provide to the Minister reports containing prescribedinformation respecting the prescribing, dispensing, selling orcompounding of drugs;(b) prescribing requirements for performing scaling teeth and rootplaning, including curetting surrounding tissue, which requirementsmay include the educational and experiential qualifications thatmust be obtained in order for a member to undertake thoseprocedures on the member’s own initiative; and(c) prescribing contraindications to a member performing orcontinuing to perform on the member’s own initiative theprocedures of scaling teeth and root planing, including curettingsurrounding tissue.4. That Ontario Regulation 218/94 under the Dental Hygiene Act, 1991(General) be amended by adding the following sections:12.1(k.1) any drug prescribed, dispensed, sold or compounded forthe client.39.(a) For the purposes of this section, “Drug List” has the meaninggiven to it in the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991.(b) A member may prescribe, dispense, sell or compound thefollowing classes of drugs:i. Anti-infectives-– miscellaneousii.Miscellaneous therapeutic agents – cariostatic agents.(c) A member may only prescribe, dispense, sell, compound oruse those drugs within the classes designated in subsection39(b) that are listed in the Drug List and must prescribe,dispense, sell, compound or use those listed drugs in accordancewith the terms, limitations and conditions contained in the DrugList.40. (1) It is a term, condition and limitation of a certificate ofregistration of any class that the member who performs a procedureunder the authority of paragraph 3 of section 4 of the Act must: (a)provide satisfactory evidence of successful completion of a programthat meets approved criteria; and (b) ensure the procedureperformed does not exceed the level of training completed.(2) It is a term, condition and limitation of a certificate ofregistration of any class that the member who performs a procedureunder the authority of paragraph 3 of section 4 of the Act mustensure the procedure is performed in accordance with anystandards of practice established and published by the College fromtime to time.HPRAC Critical Links January 2009