7-13-301 to a felony or misdemeanor that relates adversely to

7-13-301 to a felony or misdemeanor that relates adversely to the practice of dental hygiene or the ability to practice dental hygiene;

(ii) Unprofessional conduct, as defined in rules and regulations of the board;

(iii) Advertising or soliciting patients, in any form of communication, in a manner that is false or misleading in any material respect;

(iv) Renting or loaning to another person the hygienist's license or diploma to be used as a license or diploma for the other person;  (v) Being unfit or incompetent to practice dental hygiene for any reason, including but not limited to:

(A) Inability to practice dental hygiene with reasonable skill and safety because of physical or mental disability or the use of alcohol, prescription drugs, nonprescription drugs or other psychoactive substance; or

(B) Performance of unsafe dental hygiene practice or failure to conform to the standards of acceptable professional dental hygiene practice, whether or not actual injury results.

(vi) Professional discipline by a professional licensing board in any jurisdiction;

(vii) Fraud, deceit or misrepresentation in providing any information or record to the board; or

(viii) For willful violation of any provision of this act or rules and regulations of the board.

(b) All proceedings by the board pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall be as set forth in W.S. 33-15-112(b) for the revocation or suspension of a dentist's license.

(c) Upon receipt from the department of family services of a certified copy of an order from a court to withhold, suspend or otherwise restrict a license issued by the board, the board shall notify the party named in the court order of the withholding, suspension or restriction of the license in accordance with the terms of the court order. No appeal under the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act shall be allowed for a license withheld, suspended or restricted under this subsection.

33-15-122. Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 210, § 3.

33-15-123. Duties of other dental auxiliary.

Duties of all other dental auxiliary personnel not mentioned in this act shall be set and governed by the rules and regulations of the board.

33-15-124. Violations. Any person who practices dentistry without being properly qualified and licensed, or who violates any provisions of this act is subject to a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or imprisonment not more than two (2) years in the penitentiary, or both. Each separate violation of this act constitutes a separate offense.

33-15-125. Repealed by Laws 1981, ch. 172, § 3.

33-15-126. Regulation of proceedings relating to revocation or suspension of licenses.

All proceedings before the board relating to the revocation or suspension of licenses shall be conducted according to the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act, except appeals under the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act shall not be allowed for revocations, suspensions or other restrictions imposed on licenses pursuant to W.S. 33-15-112(c) or 33-15-121(c).

33-15-127. Action for injunction.

The board in its own name may bring an action for an injunction, and courts of this state may enjoin any person from violation of this act. Such proceedings shall be prosecuted by the attorney general's office or by private counsel.

33-15-128. Definitions.

(a) As used in this act:

(i) "Board" means the Wyoming board of dental examiners established by this act;

(ii) "Dentistry" means the healing art practiced by a dentist which is concerned with the examination, diagnosis, treatment, planning and care of conditions within the human oral cavity and its adjacent tissues and structures;

(iii) "Dentist" means a person who performs any intraoral and extraoral procedure required in the practice of dentistry and to whom is reserved:

(A) The responsibility for final diagnosis of conditions within the human mouth and its adjacent tissues and structures;  (B) The responsibility of the final treatment plan of any dental patient;

(C) The responsibility for prescribing drugs which are administered to patients in the practice of dentistry;

(D) The responsibility for overall quality of patient care which is rendered or performed in the practice of dentistry regardless of whether the care is rendered personally by the dentist or by a dental auxiliary; and

(E) Other specific services within the scope of the practice of dentistry.

(iv) "Dental" means pertaining to dentistry;

(v) "Dental hygienist" means a person who is supervised by a dentist and is licensed to render the educational, preventive and therapeutic dental services defined in this act, as well as any extraoral procedure required in the practice of a dental hygienist's duties;

(vi) "Dental assistant" means a person who is supervised by a dentist and renders assistance to a dentist, dental hygienist, dental technician or another dental assistant as described in this act;

(vii) "Dental laboratory" means an enterprise engaged in making, repairing, providing or altering oral prosthetic appliances and other artificial materials and devices which are returned to the dentist and inserted into the human mouth or which come into contact with its adjacent structures and tissues;

(viii) "Dental laboratory technician" means a person who, at the direction of a licensed dentist, makes, provides, repairs or alters oral prosthetic appliances and other artificial devices which are inserted into the human mouth or which come into contact with the human mouth and its adjacent tissues and structures. A dental technician is a dental prosthetic auxiliary working under the supervision of a licensed dentist;

(ix) "Dental auxiliary" means any person who works under the supervision of a dentist and who provides dental care services to a patient;  (x) "Supervision" of a dental auxiliary means the act of directing or overseeing duties performed by a dental auxiliary, as defined by rules and regulations of the board;

(xi) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 210, § 3.

(xii) "Proprietor" includes any person who:

(A) Employs dentists, dental hygienists or dental auxiliaries in the operation of a dental office, except as defined in this act; or

(B) Places in the possession of a dentist, dental hygienist or dental auxiliary or other agent such dental material or equipment as may be necessary for the management of a dental office on the basis of a lease or any other agreement for compensation for the use of such material, equipment or offices; or

(C) Retains the ownership or control of dental equipment or material or office and makes the same available in any manner for the use by dentists, dental hygienists, dental auxiliaries or any other agents, excepting that nothing in this subparagraph shall apply to bona fide sales of dental equipment or material secured by a chattel mortgage or retain-title agreement or the loan of articulators.

(xiii) "Expanded duties" means those patient's services which are beyond those regularly practiced by dental hygienists or dental technicians or other dental auxiliary functions and which require additional education which shall be approved by the board of dental examiners of Wyoming and are to be performed under the direct supervision of a licensed dentist;

(xiv) "Specialty" means a special area of dental practice for ethical specialty announcement and limitation of practice which are dental public health, endodontics, oral pathology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics, prosthodontics, oral and maxillofacial radiology and any other specialty area recognized by the board of dental examiners of Wyoming;

(xv) "Radiograph" means the film used with an x-ray machine and includes the product of a film exposed by an x-ray machine;  (xvi) "X-ray machine" means an assemblage of components for the controlled production of x-rays. It includes at a minimum an x-ray high voltage generator, an x-ray control, a tube housing assembly, a beam limiting device and the necessary supporting structures;

(xvii) "This act" means W.S. 33-15-101 through