BILL NUMBER: AB 880	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ridley-Thomas

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Section 1625 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to dentistry.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 880, as introduced, Ridley-Thomas. Dentistry.
    The Dental Practice Act provides for the licensure and regulation
of persons engaged in the practice of dentistry by the Dental Board
of California. The act defines dentistry as the diagnosis or
treatment, by surgery or other method, of diseases and lesions and
the correction of malpositions of the human teeth, alveolar process,
gums, jaws, or associated structures, and provides that a person
practices dentistry if that person performs various specified acts.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1625 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   1625.  Dentistry is the diagnosis or treatment, by surgery or
other method, of diseases and lesions and the correction of
malpositions of the human teeth, alveolar process, gums, jaws, or
associated structures  ; and such   . That 
diagnosis or treatment may include all necessary related procedures
as well as the use of drugs, anesthetic agents, and physical
evaluation. Without limiting the foregoing, a person practices
dentistry within the meaning of this chapter who does  any
 one or more of the following:
   (a) By card, circular, pamphlet, newspaper  ,  or in any
other way advertises himself  or herself  or represents
himself  or herself  to be a dentist.
   (b) Performs, or offers to perform, an operation or diagnosis of
any kind, or treats diseases or lesions of the human teeth, alveolar
process, gums, jaws, or associated structures, or corrects malposed
positions thereof.
   (c) In any way indicates that he  or she  will perform by
himself  or herself  or his  or her  agents or
servants  any   an  operation upon the
human teeth, alveolar process, gums, jaws, or associated structures,
or in any way indicates that he  or she  will construct,
alter, repair, or sell  any   a  bridge,
crown, denture or other prosthetic appliance or orthodontic
appliance.
   (d) Makes, or offers to make, an examination of, with the intent
to perform or cause to be performed  any   an
 operation on the human teeth, alveolar process, gums, jaws, or
associated structures.
   (e) Manages or conducts as manager, proprietor, conductor, lessor,
or otherwise, a place where dental operations are performed.