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24.138.2302    UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT FOR DENTURISTS

(1) The board defines "unprofessional conduct" as follows:

(a) discriminating in services because of race, creed, color, age or national origin;

(b) using advertising matter that contains misstatements, falsehoods, misrepresentation or wording that may in any way reflect against a fellow licensee or other licensed health care provider;

(c) failure to maintain an office(s) in sanitary condition consistent with current accepted sterilization and disinfection protocols for treatment rooms, sterilization and laboratory areas, or operating under unsanitary conditions after a warning from the board;

(d) failing to exercise appropriate supervision over interns who are authorized to practice only under the supervision of a licensed denturist;

(e) incompetence or gross negligence in the practice of denturitry;

(f) failing to adequately maintain complete records of each patient;

(g) having been convicted of violating a federal or state statute dealing with possession, use or distribution of narcotics;

(h) obtaining a fee or other compensation, either directly or indirectly by the representation that a manifestly incurable disease, injury or condition of a person can be cured;

(i) testifying in court on a contingency-witness fee basis;

(j) fitting, attempting to fit or advertising to fit a prosthesis on or over a dental implant;

(k) commission of an act of sexual abuse, sexual misconduct, or sexual exploitation by the licensee, whether or not related to the licensee's practice of denturitry; and

(l) failure to respond to correspondence from the board, or failure to comply with final orders of the board.

 

History: 37-1-136, 37-1-319, 37-29-201, MCA; IMP, 37-1-316, 37-1-319, 37-29-402, 37-29-403, MCA; NEW, 1986 MAR p. 1498, Eff. 9/12/86; AMD, 1991 MAR p. 2424, Eff. 12/13/91; AMD, 1996 MAR p. 3118, Eff. 12/6/96; TRANS, from Commerce, & AMD, 2003 MAR p. 2435, Eff. 10/31/03; AMD, 2019 MAR p. 2366, Eff. 12/28/19.

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