Dental technicians are prohibited:\n(1) To intervene directly with the dental patient for the purpose of doing some work which by law corresponds to a physician or dentist.\n(2) To keep in their dental laboratory a dentist chair, clinic instruments or medicines. The instruments, equipment, medicines or drugs found in a dental laboratory in violation of the provisions herein shall be seized pursuant to section 2 of Act No. 39 of July 4, 1960. If the legality of the seizure is upheld or if it is not challenged within the term prescribed by said section, the articles shall be transferred to the School of Odontology of the Medical Science Campus of the University of Puerto Rico or to the Department of Health of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to be used in either of these governmental entities or to be destroyed if useless or inadequate.\n(3) To use after their names the acronyms or abbreviations M.D., D.M.D., D.D.S., or any other abbreviation which is not duly authorized by the Board of Examiners of Dental Technologists.\nHistory —June 24, 1971, No. 97, p. 326, § 8; Dec. 3, 1990, No. 19, p. 1483, § 8.
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