Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 818 - OREGON BOARD OF DENTISTRY › Division 1 - PROCEDURES › Section 818-001-0002 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
As used in OAR chapter 818:
(1) "Board" means the Oregon Board of
			 Dentistry, the members of the Board, its employees, its agents, and its
			 consultants.
(2) "Dental Practice
			 Act" means ORS Chapter 679 and
			 680.010 to 680.170 and the rules
			 adopted pursuant thereto.
(3)
			 "Dentist" means a person licensed pursuant to ORS Chapter 679 to practice
			 dentistry.
(4) "Dental Hygienist"
			 means a person licensed pursuant to ORS 680.010 to
			 680.210 to practice dental
			 hygiene.
(5) "Dental Therapist"
			 means a person licensed to practice dental therapy under ORS
			 679.603.
(6) "Dental Therapy" means the provision of
			 preventative dental care, restorative dental treatment and other educational,
			 clinical and therapeutic patient services as part of a dental care team,
			 including the services described under ORS
			 679.621.
(7) "Direct Supervision" means supervision
			 requiring that a dentist diagnose the condition to be treated, that a dentist
			 authorize the procedure to be performed, and that a dentist remain in the
			 dental treatment room while the procedures are performed.
(8) "General Supervision" means supervision
			 requiring that a dentist authorize the procedures, but not requiring that a
			 dentist be present when the authorized procedures are performed. The authorized
			 procedures may also be performed at a place other than the usual place of
			 practice of the dentist.
(9)
			 "Indirect Supervision" means supervision requiring that a dentist authorize the
			 procedures and that a dentist be on the premises while the procedures are
			 performed.
(10) "Informed Consent"
			 means the consent obtained following a thorough and easily understood
			 explanation to the patient, or patient's guardian, of the proposed procedures,
			 any available alternative procedures and any risks associated with the
			 procedures. Following the explanation, the licensee shall ask the patient, or
			 the patient's guardian, if there are any questions. The licensee shall provide
			 thorough and easily understood answers to all questions asked.
(11) "Licensee" means a dentist, hygienist or
			 dental therapist.
(12) "Volunteer
			 Licensee" is a dentist, hygienist or dental therapist licensed according to
			 rule to provide dental health care without receiving or expecting to receive
			 compensation.
(13) "Limited Access
			 Patient" means a patient who, due to age, infirmity, or handicap is unable to
			 receive regular dental hygiene treatment in a dental office.
(14) "Specialty." The specialty definitions
			 are added to more clearly define the scope of the practice as it pertains to
			 the specialty areas of dentistry.
(a) "Dental
			 Anesthesiology" is the specialty of dentistry that deals with the management of
			 pain through the use of advanced local and general anesthesia
			 techniques.
(b) "Dental Public
			 Health" is the science and art of preventing and controlling dental diseases
			 and promoting dental health through organized community efforts. It is that
			 form of dental practice which serves the community as a patient rather than the
			 individual. It is concerned with the dental health education of the public,
			 with applied dental research, and with the administration of group dental care
			 programs as well as the prevention and control of dental diseases on a
			 community basis.
(c) "Endodontics"
			 is the specialty of dentistry which is concerned with the morphology,
			 physiology and pathology of the human dental pulp and periradicular tissues.
			 Its study and practice encompass the basic and clinical sciences including
			 biology of the normal pulp, the etiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment
			 of diseases and injuries of the pulp and associated periradicular
			 conditions.
(d) "Oral and
			 Maxillofacial Pathology" is the specialty of dentistry and discipline of
			 pathology that deals with the nature, identification, and management of
			 diseases affecting the oral and maxillofacial regions. It is a science that
			 investigates the causes, processes, and effects of these diseases. The practice
			 of oral pathology includes research and diagnosis of diseases using clinical,
			 radiographic, microscopic, biochemical, or other examinations.
(e) "Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology" is the
			 specialty of dentistry and discipline of radiology concerned with the
			 production and interpretation of images and data produced by all modalities of
			 radiant energy that are used for the diagnosis and management of diseases,
			 disorders and conditions of the oral and maxillofacial region.
(f) "Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery" is the
			 specialty of dentistry which includes the diagnosis, surgical and adjunctive
			 treatment of diseases, injuries and defects involving both the functional and
			 esthetic aspects of the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial
			 region.
(g) "Oral Medicine" is the
			 specialty of dentistry responsible for the oral health care of medically
			 complex patients and for the diagnosis and management of medically-related
			 diseases, disorders and conditions affecting the oral and maxillofacial
			 region.
(h) "Orofacial Pain"
			 Orofacial Pain is the specialty of dentistry that encompasses the diagnosis,
			 management and treatment of pain disorders of the jaw, mouth, face, head and
			 neck. The specialty of Orofacial Pain is dedicated to the evidenced-based
			 understanding of the underlying pathophysiology, etiology, prevention, and
			 treatment of these disorders and improving access to interdisciplinary patient
			 care.
(i) "Orthodontics and
			 Dentofacial Orthopedics" is the specialty of dentistry concerned with the
			 supervision, guidance and correction of the growing or mature dentofacial
			 structures, including those conditions that require movement of teeth or
			 correction of malrelationships and malformations of their related structures
			 and the adjustment of relationships between and among teeth and facial bones by
			 the application of forces and/or the stimulation and redirection of functional
			 forces within the craniofacial complex. Major responsibilities of orthodontic
			 practice include the diagnosis, prevention, interception and treatment of all
			 forms of malocclusion of the teeth and associated alterations in their
			 surrounding structures; the design, application and control of functional and
			 corrective appliances; and the guidance of the dentition and itssupporting
			 structures to attain and maintain optimum occlusal relations in physiologic and
			 esthetic harmony among facial and cranial structures.
(j) "Pediatric Dentistry" is an age defined
			 specialty that provides both primary and comprehensive preventive and
			 therapeutic oral health care for infants and children through adolescence,
			 including those with special health care needs.
(k) "Periodontics" is the specialty of
			 dentistry which encompasses the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases
			 of the supporting and surrounding tissues of the teeth or their substitutes and
			 the maintenance of the health, function and esthetics of these structures and
			 tissues.
(l) "Prosthodontics" is
			 the specialty of dentistry pertaining to the restoration and maintenance of
			 oral functions, comfort, appearance and health of the patient by the
			 restoration of natural teeth and/or the replacement of missing teeth and
			 contiguous oral and maxillofacial tissues with artificial
			 substitutes.