2018 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 2 - HEALING ARTS
CHAPTER 4 - Dentistry
ARTICLE 5 - Offenses Against This Chapter
Section 1700.5.

1700.5.  

Notwithstanding Section 1700, any person who holds a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended certificate as a dentist under this chapter may append the letters “D.D.S.” to his or her name, regardless of the degree conferred upon him or her by the dental college from which the licensee graduated.

(Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 792, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1998.)

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