Revised Code of Washington
2023 Archive

Chapter 18.32 RCW
DENTISTRY
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18.32.002Findings—Purpose.
18.32.005Regulation of health care professions—Criteria.
18.32.010Words defined.
18.32.020Practice of dentistry defined.
18.32.030Exemptions from chapter.
18.32.0351Commission established—Membership.
18.32.0353Commission—Removal of member—Order of removal—Vacancy.
18.32.0355Commission—Qualifications of members.
18.32.0357Commission—Duties and powers—Attorney general to advise, represent.
18.32.0358Commission successor to other boards.
18.32.0361Compensation of commission members.
18.32.0363Examinations—Contracts for administration—Multistate.
18.32.0365Rules.
18.32.039Application of uniform disciplinary act.
18.32.040Requirements for licensure.
18.32.050Compensation and reimbursement for administering examination.
18.32.091License required.
18.32.100Applications.
18.32.110Application fee.
18.32.160Licenses—Who shall sign.
18.32.170Duplicate licenses—Fee.
18.32.180License renewal.
18.32.185Inactive license status.
18.32.190Licenses display—Notification of address.
18.32.195Licensure without examination—Dental school faculty and residents.
18.32.215Licensure without examination—Licensed in another state.
18.32.220Certificate available for dentists going out-of-state.
18.32.222Commission report—Foreign-trained dentists—Licensure.
18.32.226Community-based sealant programs in schools.
18.32.390Penalty—General.
18.32.530"Unprofessional conduct."
18.32.533Unprofessional conduct—Abrogation of copayment provisions.
18.32.534Dentist health program—Content—License surcharge.
18.32.640Rules—Administration of sedation and general anesthesia.
18.32.655Commission—Supervision of records—Rules.
18.32.665Advertising—False—Credit terms.
18.32.675Practice or solicitation by corporations prohibited—Penalty.
18.32.677Interference with licensee's independent clinical judgment.
18.32.683Patient abandonment.
18.32.685Prescriptions—Filled by druggists.
18.32.695Identification of new dental prostheses.
18.32.705Identification of previously fabricated prostheses.
18.32.715Identification of dental prostheses—Violation.
18.32.725Sanitary regulations.
18.32.735Unlawful practice—Hygienists—Penalty.
18.32.745Unlawful practice—Employing unlicensed dentist—Penalty.
18.32.755Advertising—Names used—Penalty.
18.32.765Pilot project—Commission—Authority over budget.
18.32.775Disciplinary proceedings—Cost and fee recovery.
18.32.785Pain management rules—Criteria for new rules.
18.32.800Opioid drug prescribing rules—Adoption.
18.32.810Opioid drugs—Right to refuse.
NOTES:
Anesthesia, administration for nondental purposes: RCW 18.71.030.
Dental hygienists: Chapter 18.29 RCW.
Dentists, actions against, limitation of: RCW 4.16.350.
Health professions account—Fees credited—Requirements for biennial budget request—Unappropriated funds: RCW 43.70.320.
Lien of doctors: Chapter 60.44 RCW.
Rebating by practitioners of healing professions prohibited: Chapter 19.68 RCW.