Full Text of SB0748 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Dental Practice Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Sections 4 and 54.2 as follows:
| 6 | | (225 ILCS 25/4)
(from Ch. 111, par. 2304)
| 7 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)
| 8 | | Sec. 4. Definitions. As used in this Act:
| 9 | | "Address of record" means the designated address recorded | 10 | | by the Department in the applicant's or licensee's application | 11 | | file or license file as maintained by the Department's | 12 | | licensure maintenance unit. It is the duty of the applicant or | 13 | | licensee to inform the Department of any change of address and | 14 | | those changes must be made either through the Department's | 15 | | website or by contacting the Department. | 16 | | "Department" means the Department of Financial and | 17 | | Professional Regulation.
| 18 | | "Secretary" means the Secretary of Financial and | 19 | | Professional Regulation.
| 20 | | "Board" means the Board of Dentistry.
| 21 | | "Dentist" means a person who has received a general license | 22 | | pursuant
to paragraph (a) of Section 11 of this Act and who may | 23 | | perform any intraoral
and extraoral procedure required in the |
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| 1 | | practice of dentistry and to whom is
reserved the | 2 | | responsibilities specified in Section 17.
| 3 | | "Dental hygienist" means a person who holds a license under | 4 | | this Act to
perform dental services as authorized by Section | 5 | | 18.
| 6 | | "Dental assistant" means an appropriately trained person
| 7 | | who, under the supervision of a dentist, provides dental | 8 | | services
as authorized by Section 17.
| 9 | | "Dental laboratory" means a person, firm or corporation | 10 | | which:
| 11 | | (i) engages in making, providing, repairing or | 12 | | altering dental
prosthetic appliances and other artificial | 13 | | materials and devices which are
returned to a dentist for | 14 | | insertion into the human oral cavity or which
come in | 15 | | contact with its adjacent structures and tissues; and
| 16 | | (ii) utilizes or employs a dental technician to provide | 17 | | such services; and
| 18 | | (iii) performs such functions only for a dentist or | 19 | | dentists.
| 20 | | "Supervision" means supervision of a dental hygienist or a | 21 | | dental
assistant requiring that a dentist authorize the | 22 | | procedure, remain in the
dental facility while the procedure is | 23 | | performed, and approve the work
performed by the dental | 24 | | hygienist or dental assistant before dismissal of
the patient, | 25 | | but does not mean that the dentist must be present at all
times | 26 | | in the treatment room.
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| 1 | | "General supervision" means supervision of a dental | 2 | | hygienist
requiring that the patient be a patient of record,
| 3 | | that the dentist
examine the patient in accordance with Section | 4 | | 18 prior to treatment by the
dental hygienist, and that the
| 5 | | dentist authorize the procedures which
are being carried
out by | 6 | | a notation in the patient's record, but not requiring that a | 7 | | dentist
be present when the authorized
procedures are being | 8 | | performed. The
issuance of a prescription to a dental | 9 | | laboratory by a
dentist does not constitute general | 10 | | supervision.
| 11 | | "Public member" means a person who is not a health | 12 | | professional.
For purposes of board membership, any person with | 13 | | a significant financial
interest in a health service or | 14 | | profession is not a public member.
| 15 | | "Dentistry" means the healing art which is concerned with | 16 | | the
examination, diagnosis, treatment planning and care of | 17 | | conditions within
the human oral cavity and its adjacent | 18 | | tissues and structures, as further
specified in Section 17.
| 19 | | "Branches of dentistry" means the various specialties of | 20 | | dentistry
which, for purposes of this Act, shall be limited to | 21 | | the following:
endodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, | 22 | | orthodontics and dentofacial
orthopedics, pediatric dentistry,
| 23 | | periodontics, prosthodontics, and oral and maxillofacial
| 24 | | radiology.
| 25 | | "Specialist" means a dentist who has received a specialty | 26 | | license
pursuant to Section 11(b).
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| 1 | | "Dental technician" means a person who owns, operates or is
| 2 | | employed by a dental laboratory and engages in making, | 3 | | providing, repairing
or altering dental prosthetic appliances | 4 | | and other artificial materials and
devices which are returned | 5 | | to a dentist for insertion into the human oral
cavity or which | 6 | | come in contact with its adjacent structures and tissues.
| 7 | | "Impaired dentist" or "impaired dental hygienist" means a | 8 | | dentist
or dental hygienist who is unable to practice with
| 9 | | reasonable skill and safety because of a physical or mental | 10 | | disability as
evidenced by a written determination or written | 11 | | consent based on clinical
evidence, including deterioration | 12 | | through the aging process, loss of motor
skills, abuse of drugs | 13 | | or alcohol, or a psychiatric disorder, of sufficient
degree to | 14 | | diminish the person's ability to deliver competent patient | 15 | | care.
| 16 | | "Nurse" means a registered professional nurse, a certified | 17 | | registered
nurse anesthetist licensed as an advanced practice
| 18 | | nurse, or a licensed practical nurse licensed under the Nurse | 19 | | Practice Act.
| 20 | | "Patient of record" means a patient for whom the patient's | 21 | | most recent
dentist has obtained
a
relevant medical and dental | 22 | | history and on whom the dentist has performed an
examination | 23 | | and evaluated the condition to be treated.
| 24 | | "Dental emergency responder" means a dentist or dental | 25 | | hygienist who is appropriately certified in disaster | 26 | | preparedness, immunizations, and dental humanitarian emergency |
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| 1 | | medical response consistent with the Society of Disaster | 2 | | Medicine and Public Health and training certified by the | 3 | | National Incident Management System or the National Disaster | 4 | | Life Support Foundation , as defined by the Department of Public | 5 | | Health .
| 6 | | "Mobile dental van or portable dental unit" means any | 7 | | self-contained or portable dental unit in which dentistry is | 8 | | practiced that can be moved, towed, or transported from one | 9 | | location to another in order to establish a location where | 10 | | dental services can be provided. | 11 | | (Source: P.A. 97-526, eff. 1-1-12; 97-1013, eff. 8-17-12.)
| 12 | | (225 ILCS 25/54.2) | 13 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)
| 14 | | Sec. 54.2. Dental emergency responders. A dentist or dental | 15 | | hygienist who is a dental emergency responder is deemed to be | 16 | | acting within the bounds of his or her license when providing | 17 | | disaster, immunizations, mobile, and humanitarian care during | 18 | | a declared local, State, or national emergency.
| 19 | | (Source: P.A. 94-409, eff. 12-31-05.)
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