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N.Y. Education Law § 6610: Exempt persons

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  1. Education Law
  2. Title 8. The Professions
  3. Article 133. Dentistry, Dental Hygiene, and Registered Dental Assisting

§ 6610. Exempt persons. Nothing in this article shall be construed

to affect or prevent:

1. An unlicensed person from performing solely mechanical work upon

inert matter in a dental office or on a dental laboratory prescription

of a dentist holding a license or limited permit;

2. A student from engaging in clinical practice as part of a

registered program operated by a school of dentistry under supervision

of a dentist holding a license or limited permit for instructing in

dentistry in a school of dentistry:

3. A student from engaging in any procedure authorized under section

sixty-six hundred six of this article in clinical practice as part of a

registered program in dental hygiene under supervision of a dentist

holding a license or a limited permit for instructing in dentistry in a

school of dental hygiene;

4. An employee of a federal agency from using the title of and

practicing as a dentist or dental hygienist insofar as such activities

are required by his salaried position;

5. A dentist or a dental hygienist licensed in some other state or

country from making a teaching clinical demonstration before a regularly

organized dental or medical society or group, or from meeting licensed

dentists in this state for consultation, provided such activities are

limited to such demonstration or consultation.

6. A dentist licensed in another state or country who is employed on a

full-time basis by a registered dental school as a faculty member with

the rank of assistant professor or higher from conducting research and

clinical demonstrations as a part of such employment, under the

supervision of a licensed dentist and on the premises of the school. No

fee may be charged for the practice of dentistry authorized by this

subdivision.

7. A dentist licensed in another state or country who is visiting an

approved dental school or any other entity operating a residency program

that has been accredited by a national accrediting body approved by the

department to receive dental instruction for a period not to exceed

ninety days from engaging in clinical practice, provided such practice

is limited to such instruction and is under the direct supervision of a

licensed dentist.

8. Any student matriculated in an accredited dental school located

outside New York state from engaging in appropriately supervised

clinical practice as part of the school's dental program in a teaching

hospital which has a teaching affiliation agreement with the student's

dental school.

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