CODE OF VIRGINIA

PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY (§ 54.1-2711)

Any person shall be deemed to be practicing dentistry who (i) uses the words
dentist, or dental surgeon, the letters D.D.S., D.M.D., or any letters or title
in connection with his name, which in any way represents him as engaged in the
practice of dentistry; (ii) holds himself out, advertises or permits to be
advertised that he can or will perform dental operations of any kind; (iii)
diagnoses, treats, or professes to diagnose or treat any of the diseases or
lesions of the oral cavity, its contents or contiguous structures, or (iv)
extracts teeth, corrects malpositions of the teeth or jaws, takes impressions
for the fabrication of appliances or dental prosthesis, supplies or repairs
artificial teeth as substitutes for natural teeth, or places in the mouth and
adjusts such substitutes.No dentist shall be supervised within the scope of the
practice of dentistry by any person who is not a licensed dentist.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 54-146; 1972, c. 805; 1988, c. 765.