Maryland Health Occupations Section 4-405

      A dental laboratory may make dental appliances for research, technique samples, or training purposes:

            (1)      Without a work authorization if the dental laboratory annually secures permission from the Board to use plastic typdont or dentoform type models for this fabrication; or

            (2)      Under a work authorization signed by a licensed dentist that gives the dental laboratory permission to use the dentist's cast of a particular patient and that contains:

                  (i)      The name and address of the dental laboratory;

                  (ii)      Patient identification by name or number;

                  (iii)      The date on which the written work authorization form was completed; and

                  (iv)      The name and license number of the dentist who signs the form.