Not Sure if Your Dental Assistant Needs to be Registered with the TSBDE?

Only those assistants who take radiographs are required to register.

Newly Hired Dental Assistants working in their first year of employment are permitted to make x-rays under the direct supervision of a dentist without being registered.  They are not permitted to make x-rays legally after the first year of employment.

Experienced (and Certified) Dental Assistants who have worked for more than one year in a dental office, who have never registered with the TSBDE, but made x-rays in the past in a dental office are required to register to legally make x-rays.

No "grandfather clause" exists.  All dental assistants who make x-rays in Texas must be registered with the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners.

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