KRS § 313.010 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 313 / Section 313.010
313.010 Definitions for chapter
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313.010 Definitions for chapter.

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Board" means the Kentucky Board of Dentistry;

(2) "Certified dental technician" means an individual recognized as such by the

National Board for Certification in Dental Laboratory Technology;

(3) "Delegated duties list" means the list of procedures authorized in administrative

regulation which may be delegated by a dentist licensed under this chapter to a

licensed dental hygienist or a registered dental assistant;

(4) "Dental auxiliary personnel" means any staff member of a dental office not licensed

by or registered with the board;

(5) "Dental hygiene" means the treatment of the oral cavity, including but not limited to

dental hygiene assessment or screening, scaling and root planing, nonsurgical

therapy, removing calcareous deposits, removing accumulated accretion from

beneath the free gingival margin, cavity preventive procedures, periodontal

procedures that require administering antimicrobial agents along with other general

dentistry activities outlined in the treatment care plan and not prohibited by this

chapter or by administrative regulation promulgated by the board;

(6) "Dental hygienist" means any person who has graduated from a CODA accredited

dental hygiene program at an institute of higher learning and has been credentialed

as a "Registered Dental Hygienist";

(7) "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;

(8) "Dental laboratory technician" means any person who performs or offers or

undertakes to perform or accomplish dental laboratory technology;

(9) "Dental specialist" means a dentist who practices in fields of specialty recognized

and approved by the American Dental Association;

(10) "Dentist" means any person who has graduated from a Commission on Dental

Accreditation (CODA) accredited dental school and has been conferred with the

degree of "Doctor of Medical Dentistry" (D.M.D.) or "Doctor of Dental Surgery"

(D.D.S.);

(11) "Dentistry" means the evaluation, diagnosis, prevention, or surgical, nonsurgical, or

related treatment of diseases, disorders, or conditions of the oral cavity,

maxillofacial area, or the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the

human body provided by a dentist within the scope of his or her education, training,

and experience and in accordance with the ethics of the profession and applicable

law. 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 herself, or to another person,

performs or advertises to perform, dental operations of any kind, including the

whitening of natural or manufactured teeth, 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 or her name,

which in any way represents him or her as being engaged in the practice of

dentistry;

(12) "Direct supervision" means that the dentist is physically present in the dental office

or treatment facility, personally diagnoses the condition to be treated, authorizes the

procedures to be performed, remains in the dental office or treatment facility while

the procedures are being performed, and evaluates the performance of the individual

supervised;

(13) "General supervision" means a circumstance of treatment in which a dentist

licensed under this chapter must diagnose and authorize the work to be performed

on a patient by the dental hygienist authorized pursuant to administrative regulation

to work under general supervision but the dentist is not required to be on the

premises while the treatment is carried out;

(14) "Registered dental assistant" means any person who is registered with the board and

works under the direct supervision of a dentist;

(15) "Telehealth" means the use of interactive audio, video, or other electronic media to

deliver health care. It includes the use of electronic media for diagnosis,

consultation, treatment, transfer of health or medical data, and continuing

education; and

(16) "Volunteer community health setting" means a setting in which services are

rendered at no charge to the patient or to third-party payors.