2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards
Chapter 379 - Dentistry
Section 20-120 - Practice of dentistry in clinics, schools of dentistry and state institutions.

(a) Any graduate of a recognized dental college may practice dentistry in a clinic for a period not exceeding six months, provided he shall obtain the written consent and approval of the Dental Commission.

(b) A full-time faculty member of a school of dentistry in this state who is licensed in another state or who has exceptional qualifications as approved by the Dental Commission may be granted a provisional license upon consent and approval of the Dental Commission which provisional license shall be in effect during such time as the licensee is in the full-time employment of a school of dentistry within the state. Such provisional license shall limit the licensee to the practice of dentistry in the school of dentistry of which he is a member of the faculty or in any hospital affiliated with such school.

(c) Any graduate of a foreign dental school, who has exceptional qualifications, as approved by the Dental Commission, may practice dentistry in any state institution.

(1949 Rev., S. 4461; 1969, P.A. 316, S. 1; P.A. 73-105.)

History: 1969 act added provisions re provisional licenses; P.A. 73-105 divided section into Subsecs., allowed granting provisional license to faculty member “who has exceptional qualifications as approved by the dental commission” and added Subsec. (c) allowing graduates of foreign dental schools to practice in state institutions.

Cited. 133 C. 63.