Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 038 - Board of Dental Examiners › Rule 038.00.18-001 - Amendment to Article VII

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
ARTICLE
		  VII
ANNOUNCEMENT OF SPECIALIZATION AND LIMITATION OF
		  PRACTICE
Dentists who choose to announce specialization should limit their
			 practice exclusively to the announced special area(s) of dental practice,
			 provided at the time of the announcement such dentists have met in each
			 approved specialty for which they announce, the existing educational
			 requirements and standards set forth by the American Dental Association and
			 have been issued a specialty license by the State. Those special areas of
			 dental practice will be limited to those approved by the American Dental
			 Association and include the following: dental public health, endodontics, oral
			 pathology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry,
			 periodontics, and prosthodontics.
It is understood by die Arkansas State Board of Dental Examiners,
			 that the various specializations approved by the American Dental Association
			 will be the definition adopted for each of those specializations by the
			 Arkansas State Board of Dental Examiners.
A.
Pursuant to Act 489 of 2017, A
		  dentist who has been issued a specialist license under this section may
		  announce and hold himself or herself out to the public both as a specialist in
		  the area covered by his or her specialty certificate and as a dentist who
		  provides general dentistry services if the dentist practices his or her
		  specialty at least fifty percent (50%) of (lie time that lie or she practices
		  dentistry during a calendar year
.
B. Dentists may not use their eligibility as
		  specialists to make the public believe that specialty services rendered in the
		  dental office are being rendered by a qualified specialist when such is not the
		  case. The burden of responsibility is on the specialist to avoid any inference
		  that general practitioners who are associated with the specialists are
		  qualified to announce themselves as specialists.
C.
1.
		  General practitioner announcement of services: Any communications indicating
		  availability of such services shall be separate and apart from the name of me
		  practitioner and the statement of "general practice". Any communications
		  indicating availability of such services in signage or advertisement shall have
		  no lettering larger than the lettering in the statement "general
		  dentist".
2. Specialists
		  announcement of services: Dental specialists who wish to announce the services
		  available in their practice are permitted to announce the availability of those
		  services so long as may avoid any communications which express or imply a
		  specialty license in any other specialty other than the specialty in which they
		  are licensed in Arkansas. No specialist shall announce available services in
		  any way that would be false or misleading in any material respect. Any
		  communications indicating availability of services shall be separate and apart
		  from the name of the practitioner and the statement of the type of licensed
		  specialty. Any communications indicating availability of such services in
		  signage or advertisement shall have no lettering larger than the smallest
		  lettering in the statement reflecting the type of licensed specialty.
D. The Board shall upon
		  application and without examination issue a specialty certificate to any
		  registered and currently licensed dentist in Arkansas who has been certified in
		  that particular specialty by an American Board recognized by the American
		  Dental Association, and who has been practicing that specialty continuously for
		  a period of five (5) years or more. Any such application shall be accompanied
		  by the required fee as set forth through the provisions of the Arkansas Dental
		  Practice Act. Applicant must have graduated from a specialty program recognized
		  by the American Dental Association Council on Dental Education.
E. An examination committee appointed by the
		  Board consisting of two (2) specialists who have been certified by the Arkansas
		  Board as having met the standards set forth by the Board for that specialty and
		  one licensed dentist Board member shall examine each applicant at the time and
		  place fixed by the committee to thoroughly test the applicant's qualifications
		  for the practice of that specialty, and report to the Board whether the
		  applicant is qualified in the specialty.
F. In the event that applicant fails to pass
		  the examination and is reported by the examining committee as not being
		  qualified, he may upon application to die Board be re-examined by the committee
		  at such time and place as the Board may specify, but any applicant shall pay a
		  reexamination fee equivalent to the specialty fee.
G. Each member of the examining committee
		  appointed by the Board shall receive compensation as set forth in die Arkansas
		  Dental Practice Act.
H. The Board
		  shall issue to each applicant, who has been recommended as qualified by the
		  examining committee, as provided in the Dental Practice Act, a certificate of
		  registration to practice dentistry in their particular specialty.
I. All issued specialty certificates shall be
		  subject to revocation and suspension for the causes set forth in the Dental
		  Practice Act.
J. A Dental Board
		  member, who is a licensed dentist, shall be responsible for one of the
		  specialties which are: ENDODONTICS, ORTHODONTICS AND DENTOFACIAL ORTHOPEDICS,
		  PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY, ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, PERIODONTICS,
		  PROSTHODONTICS, DENTAL PUBLIC HEATH, AND ORAL PATHOLOGY.
Each Board member's responsibilities for that particular
			 specialty shall be as follows:
1. To
		  make recommendations to the Board for approval of specialists to serve on die
		  examining committee of that specialty.
2. To forward applications of applicants for
		  specialty license to the examining committee and provide necessary
		  communication between applicant and examining committee to insure that the
		  examination is carried out in a timely and expedient manner.
3. The President of the Board shall assign
		  each licensed dentist member a specialty for which that member will be
		  responsible and serve as an examiner.