37-4-103. Exemptions. (1) A dental laboratory or dental technician is not practicing dentistry under this chapter when engaged in the construction, making, alteration, or repairing of bridges, crowns, dentures, or other prosthetic appliances, surgical appliances, or orthodontic appliances if the casts, models, or impressions on which the work is constructed have been made by a regularly licensed and practicing dentist and the crowns, bridges, dentures, prosthetic appliances, surgical appliances, or orthodontic appliances are returned to the dentist on whose order the work was constructed.
     (2) Section 37-4-101(2) and part 5 of this chapter do not apply to a legally qualified physician or surgeon or to a dental surgeon of the United States army, navy, public health service, or veterans' bureau or to a legal practitioner of another state making a clinical demonstration before a dental society, convention, or association of dentists or to a licensed dental hygienist performing an act authorized under 37-4-401 or 37-4-405.
     (3) Nothing in this chapter prevents a bona fide faculty member of a school, college, or department of a university recognized and approved by the board from performing dental procedures necessary to his teaching functions. Nothing in this chapter prevents students from performing dental procedures under the supervision of a bona fide instructor of a school, college, or department of a university recognized and approved by the board provided such dental procedures are a part of the assigned teaching curriculum.
     (4) This chapter does not prohibit or require a license with respect to the practice of denturitry under the conditions and limitations defined by Title 37, chapter 29. None of the regulations contained in this chapter apply to a person engaged in the lawful practice of denturitry.

     History: En. Sec. 10, Ch. 48, L. 1935; re-en. Sec. 3115.10, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 38, L. 1941; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 34, L. 1961; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 352, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 83, Ch. 350, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 66-910(2), (4); amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 337, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 24, I.M. No. 97, approved Nov. 6, 1984.