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Public Act 91-0138
SB238 Enrolled LRB9102232ACtm
AN ACT to amend the Illinois Dental Practice Act by
changing Section 4 and adding Section 5.5.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Dental Practice Act is amended
by changing Section 4 and adding Section 5.5 as follows:
(225 ILCS 25/4) (from Ch. 111, par. 2304)
Sec. 4. Definitions. As used in this Act:
(a) "Department" means the Illinois Department of
Professional Regulation.
(b) "Director" means the Director of Professional
Regulation.
(c) "Board" means the Board of Dentistry established by
Section 6 of this Act.
(d) "Dentist" means a person who has received a general
license pursuant to paragraph (a) of Section 11 of this Act
and who may perform any intraoral and extraoral procedure
required in the practice of dentistry and to whom is reserved
the responsibilities specified in Section 17.
(e) "Dental hygienist" means a person who holds a
license under this Act to perform dental services as
authorized by Section 18.
(f) "Dental assistant" means an appropriately trained
person who, under the supervision of a dentist, provides
dental services as authorized by Section 17.
(g) "Dental laboratory" means a person, firm or
corporation which:
(i) engages in making, providing, repairing or
altering dental prosthetic appliances and other
artificial materials and devices which are returned to a
dentist for insertion into the human oral cavity or which
come in contact with its adjacent structures and tissues;
and
(ii) utilizes or employs a dental technician to
provide such services; and
(iii) performs such functions only for a dentist or
dentists.
(h) "Supervision" means supervision of a dental
hygienist or a dental assistant requiring that a dentist
authorize the procedure, remain in the dental facility while
the procedure is performed, and approve the work performed by
the dental hygienist or dental assistant before dismissal of
the patient, but does not mean that the dentist must be
present at all times in the treatment room.
(i) "General supervision" means supervision of a dental
hygienist requiring that a dentist authorize the procedures
which are being carried out, but not requiring that a dentist
be present when the authorized procedures are being
performed. The authorized procedures may also be performed
at a place other than the dentist's usual place of practice.
The issuance of a prescription to a dental laboratory by a
dentist does not constitute general supervision.
(j) "Public member" means a person who is not a health
professional. For purposes of board membership, any person
with a significant financial interest in a health service or
profession is not a public member.
(k) "Dentistry" means the healing art which is concerned
with the examination, diagnosis, treatment planning and care
of conditions within the human oral cavity and its adjacent
tissues and structures, as further specified in Section 17.
(l) "Branches of dentistry" means the various
specialties of dentistry which, for purposes of this Act,
shall be limited to the following: endodontics, oral and
maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics and dentofacial
orthopedics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics and
prosthodontics.
(m) "Specialist" means a dentist who has received a
specialty license pursuant to Section 11(b).
(n) "Dental technician" means a person who owns,
operates or is employed by a dental laboratory and engages in
making, providing, repairing or altering dental prosthetic
appliances and other artificial materials and devices which
are returned to a dentist for insertion into the human oral
cavity or which come in contact with its adjacent structures
and tissues.
(o) "Impaired dentist" means a dentist who is unable to
practice dentistry with reasonable skill and safety because
of a physical or mental disability as evidenced by a written
determination or written consent based on clinical evidence,
including deterioration through the aging process, loss of
motor skills, abuse of drugs or alcohol, or a psychiatric
disorder, of sufficient degree to diminish the person's
ability to deliver competent patient care.
(Source: P.A. 89-80, eff. 6-30-95; 89-116, eff. 7-7-95.)
(225 ILCS 25/5.5 new)
Sec. 5.5. Impaired dentist. The Department shall
establish by rule a program of care, counseling, and
treatment for the impaired dentist.
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