KRS 313.035: Scope of administrative regulations -- Specialties -- Limitation of liability --

Power to prescribe -- Exceptions from requirements of chapter.

(1) The board shall promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS

Chapter 13A relating to dentists. The administrative regulations shall include the

classification of and licensure of dentists, by examination or credentials, the

licensure of specialists, student limited licenses, faculty limited licenses,

reciprocity, retirement of a license , reinstatement of a license, charity licenses, and

sedation and anesthesia permits.

(2) Renewal programs shall be organized to include continuing education approved by

the board.

(3) For the purposes of licensure of specialists, the board shall only recog nize fields of

specialty duly recognized and approved by the National Commission on

Recognition of Dental Specialties and Certifying Boards. Individuals licensed as

specialists shall not practice outside of that specialty except:

(a) Upon documented referral by a general dentist to perform a procedure within

the specialist's scope of training; or

(b) As provided for in charitable dentistry as defined by administrative regulation,

during a declared disaster by order of the Governor, or when the special needs

of the patient require they be followed past the age of eighteen (18) by a

pediatric dentist.

(4) A person licensed under this chapter, who in good faith renders emergency care at

the scene of an emergency, shall not be liable for any civil damages as a r esult of

any acts or omissions by such person in rendering the emergency care.

(5) Any dentist who serves on any committee, board, commission, or other entity

which is duly constituted by any licensed hospital, dental society or association

affiliated with the American Dental Association, dental care foundation affiliated

with such dental society or association or governmental or quasi -governmental

agency for the purpose of reviewing and evaluating the dental acts of other dentists,

or dental auxiliary pers onnel, shall not be required to respond in damages for any

action taken by him or her in good faith as a member of such committee, board,

commission, or other entity.

(6) Licensed dentists may prescribe any drug necessary within the scope of their

practice.

(7) Dentists may sign death certificates the same as physicians, when necessary in the

line of their profession.

(8) This chapter shall not apply to a legally licensed doctor of medicine unless he or

she practices dentistry as a specialty.

(9) This chapter shall not apply to a practitioner of dentistry duly licensed in the United

States while making a clinical demonstration before a dental society, convention,

association of dentists, or a dental school.