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2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 2 - HEALING ARTS
CHAPTER 4 - Dentistry
ARTICLE 7 - Dental Auxiliaries
Section 1771.
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CA Bus & Prof Code § 1771 (2025)
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1771. Any person, other than a person who has been issued a license or permit by the board, who holds himself or herself out as a registered dental assistant, orthodontic assistant permitholder, dental sedation assistant permitholder, or registered dental assistant in extended functions, or uses any other term indicating or implying he or she is licensed or permitted by the board as such, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 499, Sec. 45. Effective January 1, 2009.)
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