Oregon Statutes - Chapter 679 - Dentists

• 679.010   Definitions.
  As used in this chapter and ORS 680.010 to 680.205, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Board” means the Oregon Board of Dentistry. (2) “Dental...
• 679.020   Practice of dentistry or conducting dental office without license prohibited; exceptions.
  (1) No person shall practice dentistry without a license. (2) Before engaging, conducting, operating or maintaining any dental office in any way, every individual shall...
• 679.025   License required to practice dentistry; exemptions.
  (1) It shall be unlawful for any person not otherwise authorized by law to practice dentistry or purport to be a dentist without a valid...
• 679.026   [1971 c.48 §2; 1975 c.693 §20; 1977 c.192 §2; 1981 c.185 §1; repealed by 1983 c.169 §34]
• 679.027   Enjoining violations.
  The Attorney General, or the prosecuting attorney of any county, or the Oregon Board of Dentistry, in its own name, may maintain an action for...
• 679.030   [Amended by 1953 c.574 §5; repealed by 1977 c.192 §13]
• 679.040   [Amended by 1963 c.284 §3; repealed by 2003 c.83 §12]
• 679.050   Nonresident dentists giving or receiving instruction; hospital permits.
  (1) If a reputable and duly licensed practitioner in dentistry of another state is asked to appear and demonstrate, receive or give instruction in the...
• 679.060   Application for license; fees; grounds for refusal of license.
  (1) Any person desiring to practice dentistry in this state shall file an application with the Oregon Board of Dentistry. (2) At the time of...
• 679.065   Qualifications of applicants; rules.
  (1) An applicant for a dental license shall be entitled to take the examination to practice dentistry in Oregon if the applicant: (a) Is 18...
• 679.070   Examination; certain other examination results in lieu of examination.
  (1) The Oregon Board of Dentistry may administer written, laboratory or clinical examinations to test professional knowledge and skills. (2) The examination shall be elementary...
• 679.080   Reexamination of applicants; rules.
  The Oregon Board of Dentistry may adopt rules requiring additional education and examination of applicants who have failed the licensing examination three times. [Amended by...
• 679.090   Issuance of license.
  The Oregon Board of Dentistry shall, upon the applicant’s satisfactory completion of the educational requirements and written, laboratory and clinical examinations authorized under this chapter...
• 679.100   [Repealed by 1963 c.284 §17]
• 679.105   [1997 c.662 §1; repealed by 2003 c.83 §12]
• 679.110   [Repealed by 1983 c.169 §34]
• 679.115   Licensing of dental instructor; requirements.
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Oregon Board of Dentistry shall issue a dental instructor’s license to practice dentistry to any person...
• 679.120   License fees; waiver of fee; rules; renewal of license.
  (1) The Oregon Board of Dentistry may impose application fees for the following: (a) Examinations, which may differ for general dentistry, foreign school graduate and...
• 679.130   [Amended by 1973 c.390 §5; 1983 c.169 §10; 1991 c.67 §182; repealed by 1999 c.578 §6]
• 679.140   Discipline of licensee; grounds; procedure; sanctions.
  (1) The Oregon Board of Dentistry may discipline as provided in this section any person licensed to practice dentistry in this state for any of...
• 679.150   [Amended by 1961 c.311 §2; 1963 c.284 §9; 1965 c.122 §6; 1967 c.282 §2; 1983 c.169 §12; repealed by 1999 c.578 §6]
• 679.160   Appeal from board decision.
  (1) Any licensee who has been disciplined by the Oregon Board of Dentistry may obtain judicial review of the decision in the manner prescribed by...
• 679.165   Automatic suspension of license in case of mental disorder.
  The entry of a judgment by any court establishing the mental disorder of any person holding a license under this chapter operates as a suspension...
• 679.170   Prohibited practices.
  No person shall: (1) Sell or barter, or offer to sell or barter, any diploma or document conferring or purporting to confer any dental degree,...
• 679.175   [1953 c.574 §3; repealed by 1957 c.552 §9]
• 679.176   Written work orders required for certain services.
  (1) No dentist may use the services of any person, not licensed to practice dentistry in this state, to construct, alter, repair, reline, reproduce or...
• 679.180   Enforcement; jurisdiction.
  (1) The district attorney of each county shall attend to the prosecution of all criminal complaints made under this chapter and may represent the Oregon...
• 679.230   Oregon Board of Dentistry; appointment; qualifications; confirmation; compensation and expenses.
  The Oregon Board of Dentistry shall consist of nine members. A member shall be appointed to the board by the Governor upon the expiration of...
• 679.240   [Repealed by 1983 c.169 §34]
• 679.250   Powers and duties of board; rules.
  The powers and duties of the Oregon Board of Dentistry are as follows: (1) To, during the month of April of each year, organize and...
• 679.253   Authority of board to require fingerprints.
  For the purpose of requesting a state or nationwide criminal records check under ORS 181.534, the Oregon Board of Dentistry may require the fingerprints of...
• 679.255   Board to adopt standards for sedation during dental procedures; rules.
  The Oregon Medical Board and the Oregon State Board of Nursing, in consultation with the Oregon Board of Dentistry, shall adopt rules establishing standards governing...
• 679.260   Oregon Board of Dentistry Account; disbursement of receipts.
  (1) The Oregon Board of Dentistry Account is established in the State Treasury separate and distinct from the General Fund. (2) All moneys received by...
• 679.270   [Repealed by 1973 c.829 §71]
• 679.280   Dental committees or consultants for improving standards of practice; liability; confidentiality of proceedings.
  (1) The Oregon Board of Dentistry may appoint a consultant or a committee or committees, each consisting of one or more licensed dentists in this...
• 679.290   Failure to comply with subpoena issued by board.
  (1) If a person fails to comply with any subpoena issued under ORS 679.250 (8), a judge of the circuit court of any county, on...
• 679.300   Privileged data; admissibility of data as evidence in judicial proceedings.
  (1) All data shall be privileged and shall not be admissible in evidence in any judicial proceeding, but this section shall not affect the admissibility...
• 679.310   Duty to report violations to board; exceptions; liability.
  (1) Any dentist or dental hygienist, any person licensed by the Oregon Board of Dentistry, the Oregon Dental Association or any other organization representing dentists...
• 679.320   Confidentiality of information provided to board; limitation of liability.
  (1) Any information provided to the Oregon Board of Dentistry as the basis of a complaint or in the investigation thereof shall not be subject...
• 679.500   Administration of local anesthesia for certain purposes; rules.
  (1) A dentist licensed to practice dentistry in this state may administer local anesthesia to a person for the purposes of receiving permanent lip color...
• 679.510   Liability insurance for retired dentist; requirements; rules.
  (1) For the purposes of this section, “retired dentist” means a person who is retired from active practice except for the practice of dentistry without...
• 679.520   Treatment of dental waste materials containing mercury.
  (1) A dentist who places in or removes from the human oral cavity dental materials containing mercury shall: (a) Implement and maintain best management practices...
• 679.525   Amalgam separators required in certain dental facilities.
  Each dental facility constructed on or after January 1, 2008, shall have amalgam separators that meet the requirements of ORS 679.520 (1)(b). [2007 c.517 §3]...
• 679.990   [Repealed by 1957 c.552 §6 (679.991 enacted in lieu of 679.990)]
• 679.991   Penalties.
  (1) Violation of any provision of ORS 679.020 or 679.025 (1), is a Class A misdemeanor. (2) Violation of ORS 679.170 or 679.176 is a...

Last modified: August 7, 2008