2005 Idaho Code - 54-924 — OTHER GROUNDS OF REFUSAL, REVOCATION OR SUSPENSION OF DENTISTS -- PROBATION AGREEMENTS

                                  TITLE  54
                    PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
                                  CHAPTER 9
                                   DENTISTS
    54-924.  OTHER GROUNDS OF REFUSAL, REVOCATION OR SUSPENSION OF DENTISTS --
PROBATION AGREEMENTS. The board may refuse to issue or renew a dental license,
or may revoke, suspend, place on probation, reprimand or take other
disciplinary action with respect to a dental license as the board may deem
proper, including administrative penalties not to exceed  ten thousand dollars
($10,000) per violation and assessment of the costs of disciplinary
proceedings in the event a dentist shall:
    (1)  Intentionally misstate, or fail fully to disclose, a fact material to
determination of fitness and qualification in an application for licensure to
practice dentistry, or cheat in an examination to practice dentistry; or
procure a certificate or finding of qualification to practice dentistry or
subsequently a license by false, fraudulent or deceitful means or in any other
name than his own true name; or
    (2)  Practice dentistry under any name other than his own true name except
as authorized by the provisions of the professional service corporation act;
or
    (3)  Practice or in any manner or by any means or at any place hold out or
represent himself as practicing dentistry in or under the name of, or as a
member, representative, agent or employee of, or in connection with, any
company, association, or corporation, or under any trade, fictitious or
business name except as authorized by the provisions of the professional
service corporation act; or
    (4)  (a) Make, or cause to be made, or assist in making, any fraudulent,
    false, or misleading statement as to his own, or an employee's,
    associate's, or other dentist's or dental hygienist's skill or lack of
    skill, or method of practice; or
    (b)  Claim to practice dentistry without causing pain; or
    (c)  Claim superiority over other dentists; or
    (d)  Publish, advertise, or circulate reports, letters, certificates,
    endorsements, or evidence of cures or corrections of dental conditions by
    such dentist, his employee or associate by reason of his or their skill,
    experience, or ability or of his or their use of any system, method,
    technique, device, drug, medicine, material, manipulation or machine; or
    (e)  Advertise the use of, or use, any system, method, technique, device,
    drug, medicine, material or machine, which is either falsely advertised or
    misnamed; or
    (5)  Employ any person to obtain patronage, or call or seek to call, the
attention of the public to him, his office, his skill, or his practice, by
public exhibition, use, reproduction, or representation of specimens or
samples, of dental work, or by demonstrations in public. This shall not apply
to teaching in dental or dental hygiene schools, or demonstrations or
exhibitions before meetings of other dentists or dental hygienists; or
    (6)  Use intoxicants or drugs to such a degree as to render him unfit to
practice; or
    (7)  Commit malpractice, that is, to provide dental care which fails to
meet the standard of dental care provided by other qualified dentists in the
same community or similar communities, taking into account his training,
experience and the degree of expertise to which he holds himself out to the
public; or
    (8)  Engage in unprofessional, unethical or immoral conduct, as defined by
board rules; or
    (9)  Advertise in such way as to deceive or defraud, or probably deceive
or defraud, the public or patrons; or
    (10) Employ or permit any person not a dentist to practice dentistry, or
any person not a dentist or dental hygienist to practice dental hygiene, in
his office or under his control or direction; or
    (11) Fail, neglect or refuse to keep his office or equipment, or otherwise
conduct his work in accordance with current state and federal laws, rules and
regulations; or
    (12) Violate any other provisions of law or rules adopted by the board; or
    (13)  Falsely identify himself to the public as a specialist in a
specialty area of dentistry as defined by rule.