Who may operate a cosmetic laser in New Hampshire?
Oversight · part of The Practice Perimeter
Short answer
Only a licensed physician or someone another statute authorizes — laser that cuts, burns, vaporizes or otherwise structurally alters tissue is surgery, and thus the practice of medicine; the cited rules set no delegation or supervision scheme for lasers.
Any person is regarded as practicing medicine who diagnoses, treats, performs surgery, or prescribes any treatment of medicine for any disease or human ailment, and surgery means any procedure, including but not limited to laser, in which human tissue is cut, shaped, burned, vaporized, or otherwise structurally altered, except that the section does not apply to any person to whom authority is given by any other statute to perform acts which might otherwise be deemed the practice of medicine.
N.H. Rev. Stat. §329:1 · verified Sep 8, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
Related New Hampshire rules
The board may take disciplinary action against a licensee who has employed or allowed an unlicensed person to practice in the licensee’s office.
N.H. Rev. Stat. §329:17, VI(e) · verified Sep 3, 2026
Regular or frequent consultation by an unlicensed person, as determined by the licensing board, shall constitute the practice of medicine without a license.
N.H. Rev. Stat. §329:21, II (consultation exception) · verified Sep 3, 2026
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