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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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