{"id":"NE-103","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Nebraska","state":"NE","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Nebraska Board of Dentistry","authority":"Board statement under the Uniform Credentialing Act; recommendation, not an order","instrument":"Statement from the Nebraska Board of Dentistry as of March 20, 2020","title":"Statement from the Nebraska Board of Dentistry as of March 20, 2020 (suspension of routine dental care)","dateIssued":"2020-03-20","effective":"2020-03-20","end":"2020-05-04 (routine care resumed statewide, NE-104)","startDate":"2020-03-20","endDate":"2020-05-04","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["HC"],"addressees":["Nebraska dentists and dental offices"],"clause":"The American Dental Association, all of the parent dental specialty organizations, and the Nebraska Dental Association recommend suspending routine dental care, across many states including ours, through the 1st of April.... one simple way to define essential/emergent care is that if the patient was being scheduled more than 24-48 hours out, then it would be considered routine dental care.... If an office elects to ignore these recommendations and provides routine dental care, and it becomes a nidus for spreading the infection, one might have a hard time explaining why they chose to provide care spreading the disease.","enforcement":"Board recommendation; the binding prohibition of \u0027elective medical and dental surgeries and elective medical and dental procedures\u0027 came in DHM Order 2020-009 (Apr. 3, 2020, NE-008)","functions":["CH chairside care and hygiene","PR elective and aerosol-generating procedures","EM emergency-only period","MK (NDA annual meeting suspended)"],"notes":"The licensing board\u0027s contemporaneous statement that routine dental care in Nebraska was suspended from March 20, 2020","sourceUrl":"http://dhhs.ne.gov/Documents/COVID-19-BODentryStatement-March20.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20201016212924/http://dhhs.ne.gov/Documents/COVID-19-BODentryStatement-March20.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":586063,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"NE","url":"/library/NE-103","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/NE-103","citation":"Nebraska Board of Dentistry, Statement from the Nebraska Board of Dentistry as of March 20, 2020 (Mar. 20, 2020) (Ex. NE-103)","stateName":"Nebraska","related":["NE-104","NE-008"]}