ORS 679.700: Definitions for ORS 679.700 to 679.720.

As used in ORS 679.700 to 679.720: (1) “Certified dental laboratory technician” means a dental laboratory technician who is certified by the National Board for Certification in Dental Laboratory Technology, or its successor organization, as approved by the Health Licensing Office by rule. (2) “Dental laboratory” means a facility where one or more dental laboratory technicians make, provide, repair or alter dental prosthetic appliances and other artificial materials and devices that are returned to a dentist and inserted into the human oral cavity, or that come into contact with the human oral cavity’s adjacent structures and tissues, of a dental patient. (3) “Dental laboratory technician” means a person who, pursuant to a dentist’s prescribed work order, makes, provides, repairs or alters dental prosthetic appliances and other artificial materials and devices that are returned to the dentist and inserted into the human oral cavity, or that come into contact with the human oral cavity’s adjacent structures and tissues, of the dentist’s patient. (4) “Dentist” means a dentist licensed under ORS chapter 679. (5) “Material content disclosure” means a notice provided to a dentist by a dental laboratory that includes: (a) The name, physical address and registration number of the dental laboratory; (b) The city, state and country of origin where the technological work under the work order was performed in whole or in part; (c) The city, state and country of the dental laboratory or dental laboratories that manufactured or repaired, directly or indirectly, the dental prosthetic appliances or other artificial materials and devices ordered under the work order; and (d) So that the dentist may include the information in the patient’s record, the manufacturer and brand name or the United States Food and Drug Administration registration number of all patient contact materials used in a dental prosthetic appliance or other artificial material or device that is inserted into the human oral cavity, or that comes into contact with the human oral cavity’s adjacent structures and tissues, of the dentist’s patient. (6) “Responsible person” means the person who: (a) Controls a majority interest in a dental laboratory; or (b) Is primarily responsible for the supervision of the day-to-day operations of the dental laboratory. (7) “Work order” means a written instrument prescribed by a dentist that directs a dental laboratory to, for an individual patient, make, provide, repair or alter one or more dental prosthetic appliances or other artificial materials or devices that will be returned to the dentist and inserted into the human oral cavity, or that will come into contact with the human oral cavity’s adjacent structures and tissues, of the dentist’s patient. [2025 c.199 §1]