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92_HB4217
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1 AN ACT concerning the regulation of professions.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Dental Practice Act is amended
5 by changing Section 4 as follows:
6 (225 ILCS 25/4) (from Ch. 111, par. 2304)
7 (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2006)
8 Sec. 4. Definitions. As used in this Act:
9 (a) "Department" means the Illinois Department of
10 Professional Regulation.
11 (b) "Director" means the Director of Professional
12 Regulation.
13 (c) "Board" means the Board of Dentistry established by
14 Section 6 of this Act.
15 (d) "Dentist" means a person who has received a general
16 license pursuant to paragraph (a) of Section 11 of this Act
17 and who may perform any intraoral and extraoral procedure
18 required in the practice of dentistry and to whom is reserved
19 the responsibilities specified in Section 17.
20 (e) "Dental hygienist" means a person who holds a
21 license under this Act to perform dental services as
22 authorized by Section 18.
23 (f) "Dental assistant" means an appropriately trained
24 person who, under the supervision of a dentist, provides
25 dental services as authorized by Section 17.
26 (g) "Dental laboratory" means a person, firm or
27 corporation which:
28 (i) engages in making, providing, repairing or
29 altering dental prosthetic appliances and other
30 artificial materials and devices which are returned to a
31 dentist for insertion into the human oral cavity or which
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1 come in contact with its adjacent structures and tissues;
2 and
3 (ii) utilizes or employs a dental technician to
4 provide such services; and
5 (iii) performs such functions only for a dentist or
6 dentists.
7 (h) "Supervision" means supervision of a dental
8 hygienist or a dental assistant requiring that a dentist
9 authorize the procedure, remain in the dental facility while
10 the procedure is performed, and approve the work performed by
11 the dental hygienist or dental assistant before dismissal of
12 the patient, but does not mean that the dentist must be
13 present at all times in the treatment room.
14 (i) "General supervision" means supervision of a dental
15 hygienist requiring that a dentist authorize the procedures
16 which are being carried out, but not requiring that a dentist
17 be present when the authorized procedures are being
18 performed. The authorized procedures may also be performed
19 at a place other than the dentist's usual place of practice.
20 The issuance of a prescription to a dental laboratory by a
21 dentist does not constitute general supervision.
22 (j) "Public member" means a person who is not a health
23 professional. For purposes of board membership, any person
24 with a significant financial interest in a health service or
25 profession is not a public member.
26 (k) "Dentistry" means the healing art which is concerned
27 with the examination, diagnosis, treatment planning and care
28 of conditions within the human oral cavity and its adjacent
29 tissues and structures, as further specified in Section 17.
30 (l) "Branches of dentistry" means the various
31 specialties of dentistry which, for purposes of this Act,
32 shall be limited to the following: endodontics, oral and
33 maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics and dentofacial
34 orthopedics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics,
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1 prosthodontics, and oral and maxillofacial radiology.
2 (m) "Specialist" means a dentist who has received a
3 specialty license pursuant to Section 11(b).
4 (n) "Dental technician" means a person who owns,
5 operates or is employed by a dental laboratory and engages in
6 making, providing, repairing or altering dental prosthetic
7 appliances and other artificial materials and devices which
8 are returned to a dentist for insertion into the human oral
9 cavity or which come in contact with its adjacent structures
10 and tissues.
11 (o) "Impaired dentist" or "impaired dental hygienist"
12 means a dentist or dental hygienist who is unable to practice
13 with reasonable skill and safety because of a physical or
14 mental disability as evidenced by a written determination or
15 written consent based on clinical evidence, including
16 deterioration through the aging process, loss of motor
17 skills, abuse of drugs or alcohol, or a psychiatric disorder,
18 of sufficient degree to diminish the person's ability to
19 deliver competent patient care.
20 (p) "Nurse" means a registered professional nurse, a
21 certified registered nurse anesthetist anesthesist licensed
22 as an advanced practice nurse, or a licensed practical nurse
23 licensed under the Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act.
24 (Source: P.A. 91-138, eff. 1-1-00; 91-689, eff. 1-1-01;
25 92-280, eff. 1-1-02; revised 9-19-01.)