2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .010   Definitions.

313.010 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1)  "Board" means the Kentucky Board of Dentistry. (2)  Any person shall be regarded as "practicing dentistry" who, for a fee, salary or other reward paid, or to be paid either to himself, or to another person, performs or advertises to perform, dental operations of any kind, or who diagnoses or treats diseases or lesions of human teeth or jaws, or attempts to correct malpositions thereof, or who diagnoses or treats disorders, or deficiencies of the oral cavity and adjacent associated structures, or who takes impressions of the human teeth or jaws to be used directly in the fabrication of any intraoral appliance, or shall construct, supply, reproduce or repair any prosthetic denture, bridge, artificial restoration, appliance or other structure to be used or worn as a substitute for natural teeth, except upon the written laboratory procedure work order of a licensed dentist and constructed upon or by the use of casts or models made from an impression taken by a licensed dentist, or who shall advertise, offer, sell or deliver any such substitute or the services rendered in the construction, reproduction, supply or repair thereof to any person other than a licensed dentist, or who places or adjusts such substitute in the oral cavity of another, or who uses the words "dentist," "dental surgeon," the letters "D.D.S.," "D.M.D.," or other letters or title in connection with his name, which in any way represents him as being engaged in the practice of dentistry. (3)  "Dental hygiene" shall mean the treatment of human teeth by scaling, polishing, planing and removing therefrom calcareous deposits, and by removing accumulated accretion from beneath the free margin of the gums, and may also include other dental activities not specifically prohibited by this chapter or by regulation of the board provided, that nothing in KRS 313.260 to 313.350 shall be so construed as to affect the practice of medicine or dentistry nor to prevent students of a dental college or university from practicing dental hygiene under supervision of their instructors; and, provided further, that nothing in KRS 313.260 to 313.350 shall be construed to authorize any dental hygienist to perform any operation in a patient's mouth without supervision of a dentist. (4)  "Dental laboratory" includes any person, firm or corporation other than a licensed dentist, who directly or through an agent or employee, by any means or method, in any way supplies or manufactures artificial substitutes for the natural teeth, other than those unfinished substitutes normally available through dental supply houses, or who furnishes, supplies, constructs or reproduces or repairs any prosthetic denture, bridge or appliance to be worn in the human mouth or who performs or offers or undertakes to perform or accomplish dental laboratory technology. (5)  "Dental laboratory technician" means any individual who performs or offers or undertakes to perform or accomplish dental laboratory technology and who is classified as such by regulations of the board adopted as provided in this chapter. (6)  "Commercial dental laboratory" shall mean any dental laboratory as defined in subsection (4) of this section other than a laboratory of practicing dentists, accredited schools and nonprofit institutions for use only for their own patients. (7) "Commission" means the Dental Laboratory Advisory Commission. (8) "Laboratory association" means the Kentucky Dental Laboratory Association. Effective: June 17, 1978 History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 155, sec. 162, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 303, sec. 1. -- Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 75. sec. 1. -- Amended 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 1. -- Amended 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 139, sec. 1. -- Amended 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 6, sec. 1. -- Created 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 60, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 2636-11, 2636-18.