Pennsylvania Code › Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS › Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS › Chapter 33 - STATE BOARD OF DENTISTRY › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 33.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
ASA CLASS I
-A classification of patient
						status developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists for a patient
						without systemic disease.
ASA CLASS II
-A classification of patient
						status developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists for a patient
						with mild systemic disease.
ASA CLASS III
-A classification of
						patient status developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists for a
						patient with severe systemic disease that limits activity but is not
						incapacitating.
ASA CLASS IV
-A classification of patient
						status developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists for a patient
						with incapacitating systemic disease that is a constant threat to life.
ASA CLASS V
-A classification of patient
						status developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists for a moribund
						patient not expected to survive 24 hours with or without operation.
Act
-The Dental Law (63 P. S.
						§§
												120-130i), which regulates the
						licensure of dentists and dental hygienists and the practice of dentistry and
						practice as a dental hygienist in this Commonwealth.
Auxiliary personnel
-Persons who perform
						dental supportive procedures authorized by the act and this chapter under the
						general or direct supervision of a dentist.
Board regulated practitioner
-A dentist,
						restricted faculty license holder, dental hygienist, public health dental
						hygiene practitioner or expanded function dental assistant.
Bodily injury
-Impairment of physical
						condition or substantial pain.
Bureau
-The Bureau of Professional and
						Occupational Affairs of the Commonwealth.
Child
-An individual under 18 years of
						age.
Child abuse
-Intentionally, knowingly or
						recklessly doing any of the following:
(i) Causing bodily injury to a child through
					 any recent act or failure to act.
(ii) Fabricating, feigning or intentionally
					 exaggerating or inducing a medical symptom or disease which results in a
					 potentially harmful medical evaluation or treatment to the child through any
					 recent act.
(iii) Causing or
					 substantially contributing to serious mental injury to a child through any act
					 or failure to act or a series of such acts or failures to act.
(iv) Causing sexual abuse or exploitation of
					 a child through any act or failure to act.
(v) Creating a reasonable likelihood of
					 bodily injury to a child through any recent act or failure to act.
(vi) Creating a likelihood of sexual abuse or
					 exploitation of a child through any recent act or failure to act.
(vii) Causing serious physical neglect of a
					 child.
(viii) Engaging in any of
					 the following recent acts:
(A) Kicking,
					 biting, throwing, burning, stabbing or cutting a child in a manner that
					 endangers the child.
(B)
					 Unreasonably restraining or confining a child, based on consideration of the
					 method, location or duration of the restraint or confinement.
(C) Forcefully shaking a child under 1 year
					 of age.
(D) Forcefully slapping or
					 otherwise striking a child under 1 year of age.
(E) Interfering with the breathing of a
					 child.
(F) Causing a child to be
					 present at a location while a violation of
					 18 Pa.C.S. §
													7508.2
					 (relating to operation of methamphetamine laboratory) is occurring, provided
					 that the violation is being investigated by law enforcement.
(G) Leaving a child unsupervised with an
					 individual, other than the child's parent, who the actor knows or reasonably
					 should have known:
(I) Is required to
					 register as a Tier II or Tier III sexual offender under 42 Pa.C.S. Chapter 97,
					 Subchapter H (relating to registration of sexual offenders), where the victim
					 of the sexual offense was under 18 years of age when the crime was
					 committed.
(II) Has been determined
					 to be a sexually violent predator under
					 42 Pa.C.S. §
														9799.24
					 (relating to assessments) or any of its predecessors.
(III) Has been determined to be a sexually
					 violent delinquent child as defined in
					 42 Pa.C.S. §
														9799.12
					 (relating to definitions).
(IV) Has
					 been determined to be a sexually violent predator under
					 42 Pa.C.S. §
														9799.58
					 (relating to assessments) or has to register for life under
					 42 Pa.C.S. §
														9799.55(b) (relating to
					 registration).
(H)
					 Causing the death of the child through any act or failure to act.
(I) Engaging a child in a severe form of
					 trafficking in persons or sex trafficking, as those terms are defined under
					 section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (
					 22 U.S.C.A. §
													7102 ).