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 perform examination, diagnosis, treatment, and attempted correction by any medicine, appliance, surgery, or other appropriate method of any disease, condition, disorder, lesion, injury, deformity, or defect of the oral cavity and maxillofacial area, including teeth, gums, jaws, and associated structures and tissue, which methods by education, background experience, and expertise are common to the practice of dentistry.

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]

Section History: Recent form

  96 Acts, ch 1147, § 1

Internal References

  Referred to in § 153.14


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