Tex. Occ. Code § 258.054 · Subchapter B. GENERAL PRACTICE PROVISIONS
USE OF X-RAY EQUIPMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A dentist may authorize a qualified person to perform beam calibration and characterization, quality assurance, instrument specification, acceptance testing, shielding design, or protection analysis on radiation-emitting equipment or radiopharmaceuticals for a procedure that involves the diagnosis or treatment of disease or another dental condition in humans.
(b) A dentist's authorization and the performance of authorized activities by a qualified person does not constitute the practice of medical physics under Chapter 602.
(c) A dentist may not authorize a dental assistant, other than a dental assistant described by Section 265.001(d), to make a dental x-ray unless the dental assistant is registered under Chapter 265.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 810 (S.B. 610), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2005.
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 295 (S.B. 313), Sec. 20, eff. September 1, 2018.
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