Sec. 258.054. USE OF X-RAY EQUIPMENT

(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 to make a dental x-ray unless the dental assistant holds an x-ray certificate issued under Section 265.005.

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by: Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 810 , Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2005.