**OFFICE OF**  THE **ATTORNEY GENERAL**  **OF** TEXAS AUSTIN



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### sttqr prrrlourrl Mlbc?, saotsl Zwaiaan. hata ooorr~~& rrrrnt tlw **by** 

### thr ,n 8nd rrquret 

### our

y Mr. 3. Carl IIolder

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### wholo@bout to 

### 110Date1 Lsborat@r)* in OtWB8B~ **to the**  **rublie t@**  **Tc** 

### pati a platr clr dentutr Sor 8 aansldtratioa oi aonay. 

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### Bonorabla I?. T. **Mb.?, pago**  **2**



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### to duplleatr th8 patlenta’ old 4mtcra in 001Of tin types that 

### he ha8 dloplayrd iw a considrratlon 

### or sonr7. 

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### who 18 

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### thr **Stat. of**  **Trr.8** 18 **oormcotrd** 

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### la thir 

### Bskbllahamt. Article 45518 of t&a **Trxas** 

### Dental laws da**finor persons**  **a8** 

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### upon inviolation OS rstlolaUPa and 18 **thim rrgard8d**  **a8** 

### prao**ticlag datietry**  a8 definea **in** 

### Artlclaa 45518 an4 b? 

### Your 4bplslon 18 ~8p0atruiif **requr*tad.** ***** Artlolr 

### 455ls,, 

### Vernon*8 Amotatrd Cltll statutrror 

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### In Fart as 

### sollows:



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### shall**be** 

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### treat,

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### opersts **or prororlbe,** 



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### physlosl 

### ooadltion

of thehoaan'taath,. slveolar

**proo888. auta8** **or jaw8**  **anb** 

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dlractly or ladir8otl~,~ Boner or othrr owpmsatlon.~ 

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### Seocnd. **alition,** 

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### of themandlblrandsupsrior maxillary

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nrtlclr 752b, Vernon’s Annotated FSnal CodS of ToxSS, provider amx& othSr thingm~that~

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### yraotioaor dSati8trfe 

### dlrsotly or ltxllrectl~. Any Qm~rofa88icnal oomYuot* as **USad** 

### hersiD, **acan and**  lnoluda8 any one 

### or sore of the following acts, to-wit: =(qj **Ad7ertiml~** to the public an7 oolluneraial

dental leborato~ or 

### dental cllnlo.('
It i’sen ra,tbeiciaar 

### to us that Mr. Thornton Is adrarti8%n& to the Fob110 8 OOZ6W~OlSl U8ntal labora

### tory in 

### rlolatlonof Art1018 752b (q), Vcrnoa'8 AmotatSd Fans1 Cod8 Of hIS6. The ad+lirtl8ing of thr doing of ocrtclln



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### the praotica of ztcntlst~, tba doing of muoh sots would be 

### the practloa 

### of dentlst~. To duplloata, or offer to dupllcatr, a patlant~s old 

### denture lot0 a type ot pIa to 

### (?n diSpl87 

### in a **“ FubliC**  dent81 

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### tlonIn prascrlbing 

### or dirlgtmtlon of a rrmaaf fbr the rltrolar pr~oSsm and has barn daflnad mm a praotloa of dentistry **by** Article 

### 455lr, VSrnon'r Annotated Civil Statutes at Taxae.

To our opinion iour qcrmtlon Sbmld be l 

### amtrarrd In the aitirqatltr.


### Yocr6verytnllJ ATTQR?32Y



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