Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 69 > Part 1 - General Provisions

• Asynchronous technology: means store-and-forward technology that allows a licensed dental professional to transmit a patient's health information to a dentist for viewing at a later time. See Utah Code 58-69-102
• Board: means the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Licensing Board created in Section 58-69-201. See Utah Code 58-69-102
• Dental assistant: means an unlicensed individual who engages in, directly or indirectly, supervised acts and duties as defined by division rule made in collaboration with the board. See Utah Code 58-69-102
• General supervision: means that the supervising dentist is available for consultation regarding work the supervising dentist has authorized, without regard as to whether the supervising dentist is located on the same premises as the person being supervised. See Utah Code 58-69-102
• Indirect supervision: means that the supervising dentist is present within the facility in which the person being supervised is providing services and is available to provide immediate face-to-face communication with the person being supervised. See Utah Code 58-69-102
• Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Practice of dentistry: means the following, regarding humans:

  (a)

  to offer, undertake, or represent that a person will undertake by any means or method, including teledentistry, to: (i)  examine, evaluate, diagnose, treat, operate, or prescribe therapy for any disease, pain, injury, deficiency, deformity, or any other condition of the human teeth, alveolar process, gums, jaws, or adjacent hard and soft tissues and structures in the maxillofacial region; (ii)  take an appropriate history and physical consistent with the level of professional service to be provided and the available resources in the facility in which the service is to be provided; (iii)  take impressions or registrations; (iv)  supply artificial teeth as substitutes for natural teeth; (v)  remove deposits, accumulations, calculus, and concretions from the surfaces of teeth; and (vi)  correct or attempt to correct malposition of teeth;

  (b)	to administer anesthetics necessary or proper in the practice of dentistry only as allowed by an anesthesia permit obtained from the division;

  (c)	to administer and prescribe drugs related to and appropriate in the practice of dentistry;

  (d)	to supervise the practice of a dental hygienist or dental assistant as established by division rule made in collaboration with the board; or

  (e)

  to represent oneself by any title, degree, or in any other way that one is a dentist. See Utah Code 58-69-102 Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Supervising dentist: means a licensed dentist who has agreed to provide supervision of a dental hygienist or unlicensed individual in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. See Utah Code 58-69-102 Teledentistry: means the practice of dentistry using synchronous or asynchronous technology. See Utah Code 58-69-102