As used in ORS 680.500 to 680.570, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) “Board” means the policy-making body known as the State Board of Denture Technology, established within the Oregon Health Licensing Agency.
(2) “Denture” means any removable full and/or partial upper or lower prosthetic dental appliance to be worn in the human mouth to replace any missing natural teeth.
(3) “Denturist” means a person licensed under ORS 680.500 to 680.570 to engage in the practice of denture technology and who is authorized within their scope of practice to provide to the public full or partial upper or lower dentures to be worn in the human mouth.
(4) “Practice of denture technology” means:
(a) Constructing, repairing, relining, reproducing, duplicating, supplying, fitting or altering any denture in respect of which a service is performed under paragraph (b) of this subsection; and
(b) The taking of impressions, bite registrations, try-ins, and insertions of or in any part of the human oral cavity for any of the purposes listed in paragraph (a) of this subsection. [1979 c.1 §1; 1991 c.921 §1; 1993 c.142 §2; 1999 c.885 §26; 2003 c.1 §1; 2005 c.648 §23]
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