2011 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 313 DENTISTS AND DENTAL SPECIALISTS 313.035 Scope of administrative regulations -- Specialties -- Limitation of liability -- Power to prescribe -- Exceptions from requirements of chapter.
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313.035 Scope of administrative regulations -- Specialties -- Limitation of liability -Power to prescribe -- Exceptions from requirements of chapter.
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The board shall promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS
Chapter 13A relating to dentists. The administrative regulations shall include the
classification of and licensure of dentists, by examination or credentials, the
licensure of specialists, student limited licenses, faculty limited licenses, reciprocity,
retirement of a license, reinstatement of a license, charity licenses, and conscious
sedation and anesthesia permits.
Renewal programs shall be organized to include continuing education approved by
the board.
For the purposes of licensure of specialists the board shall only recognize fields of
specialty duly recognized and approved by the American Dental Association.
Individuals licensed as specialists shall not practice outside of that specialty except
as provided for in charitable dentistry as defined by administrative regulation,
during a declared disaster by order of the Governor, or when the special needs of the
patient require they be followed past the age of eighteen (18) by a pediatric dentist.
No person licensed under this chapter, who in good faith renders emergency care at
the scene of an emergency, shall be liable for any civil damages as a result of any
acts or omissions by such person in rendering the emergency care.
Any dentist who serves on any committee, board, commission, or other entity which
is duly constituted by any licensed hospital, dental society or association affiliated
with the American Dental Association, dental care foundation affiliated with such
dental society or association or governmental or quasi-governmental agency for the
purpose of reviewing and evaluating the dental acts of other dentists, or dental
auxiliary personnel, shall not be required to respond in damages for any action taken
by him or her in good faith as a member of such committee, board, commission, or
other entity.
Licensed dentists may prescribe any drug necessary within the scope of their
practice.
Dentists may sign death certificates the same as physicians, when necessary in the
line of their profession.
Nothing in this chapter shall apply to a legally licensed doctor of medicine unless he
or she practices dentistry as a specialty.
Nothing in this chapter shall apply to a practitioner of dentistry duly licensed by
another state or the District of Columbia while making a clinical demonstration
before a dental society, convention, association of dentists, or a dental school.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Repealed and reenacted 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 6, effective July 15, 2010. - Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 243, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992.
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