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153.13 "Practice of dentistry" defined.

For the purpose of this subtitle the following classes of persons shall be deemed to be engaged in the practice of dentistry:

1. Persons publicly professing to be dentists, dental surgeons, or skilled in the science of dentistry, or publicly professing to assume the duties incident to the practice of dentistry.

2. Persons who treat, or attempt to correct by any medicine, appliance, or method, any disorder, lesion, injury, deformity, or defect of the oral cavity, teeth, gums, or maxillary bones of the human being, or give prophylactic treatment to any of said organs.

Section History: Early form

[S13, § 2600-o; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2565; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 153.1; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 153.13]

Internal References

Referred to in § 153.14


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