65-1427. Specialists; standards and qualifications; certificate fee; limiting practice; misdemeanor; suspension or revocation of license.
65-1427
65-1427. Specialists; standards and qualifications; certificate fee;limiting practice; misdemeanor; suspension or revocation of license.(a) No dentist shall announce or hold out to the public that such dentist is aspecialist, or is specially qualified in any particular branch ofdentistry, or as giving special attention to any branch of dentistry, orlimiting such dentist's practice to any branch of dentistry, unless suchdentist has compliedwith additional requirements established by the board, and has beenissued a certificate of qualification authorizing such dentist to do so.
(b) The board is hereby empowered to establish higher standards andadditional requirements for any dentist who desires to announce or holdout to the public that such dentist is specially qualified in any particularbranch of dentistry. The board is hereby empowered to give suchexamination as it may deem necessary to determine the qualifications ofapplicants and may secure such assistance as the board may deemadvisable in determining the qualifications of applicants.
(c) Upon application to the board of any licensed dentist in this state,the board may issue a certificate of qualification to such dentistauthorizing the applicant to hold out, or to announce, to thepublic that such dentist is specially qualified in, or limits such dentist'spractice to, orgives special attention to any one of the recognized branches ofdentistry. The application to the board shall be upon such form andcontain such information as the board may require and shall beaccompanied by a certificate fee toassist in defraying the expenses in connection with the issuance of suchcertificates of qualificationfixed by the board pursuant to K.S.A. 65-1447.
(d) Any dentist holding a certificate of qualification under this sectionof the act may announce the limitation of such dentist'spractice by using such termsand in such manner as the board may approve, together with the name ofsuch branch of dentistry for which such dentist is authorized to hold outto the public that such dentist has special qualifications. Any dentistwho shall hold out, or announce in any manner, by the use of any terms signifying orindicating to the public that such dentist's practice is limited, or isspecially qualified in anyparticular branch of dentistry, or that such dentist gives special attention to anyparticular branch of dentistry, or shall use equivalent words or phrasesto announce the same, without having obtained a certificate of qualificationtherefor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and thelicense of such dentist to practice dentistry shall be subject to suspension orrevocation. Any announcement in the manner indicated in this section shallbe prima facie evidence that such dentist is practicing in one branch ofdentistry.
History: L. 1943, ch. 221, § 10; L. 1953, ch. 289, § 1; L. 1980,ch. 189, § 1; July 1.