Section 6611. Special provisions

1.  Except  upon  the  written  dental
  laboratory prescription of a licensed dentist and except by the  use  of
  impressions  or  casts  made by a licensed dentist, no dental laboratory
  shall furnish, supply, construct, reproduce, place,  adjust,  or  repair
  any  dental  prosthesis,  device,  or  appliance.  A  dental  laboratory
  prescription shall be made out in duplicate. It shall contain such  data
  as  may  be prescribed by the commissioner's regulations. One copy shall
  be retained by the practitioner of dentistry for a period of  one  year.
  The  other  copy  shall  be  issued  to  the person, firm or corporation
  engaged in filling dental laboratory prescriptions, who or  which  shall
  each  retain  and file in their respective offices or places of business
  their respective copies for a period of one year.
    2. The department is empowered to inspect and to have  access  to  all
  places,  including  the  office  or offices of a licensed dentist, where
  copies of dental laboratory prescriptions issued by him are retained  as
  required  by  this  section,  and  to all places where dental laboratory
  prescriptions are filled or  to  any  workroom  or  workrooms  in  which
  prosthetic  restorations,  prosthetic  dentures, bridges, orthodontic or
  other appliances or structures to be used  as  substitutes  for  natural
  teeth or tissue or for the correction of malocclusion or deformities are
  made, repaired or altered, with power to subpoena and examine records of
  dental  laboratory  prescriptions. A person who fails to grant access to
  such places or who fails to maintain prescriptions as required  by  this
  section shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
    3. The department may arrange for the conduct of clinical examinations
  in  the  clinic  of  any school of dentistry or dental hygiene within or
  outside the state for dental or dental hygiene candidates.
    4. A not-for-profit dental or medical expense indemnity corporation or
  hospital service  corporation  organized  under  the  insurance  law  or
  pursuant  to  special legislation may enter into contracts with dentists
  or partnerships of dentists to provide dental care  on  its  behalf  for
  persons insured under its contracts or policies.
    5.  Legally incorporated dental corporations existing and in operation
  prior to January  first,  nineteen  hundred  sixteen,  may  continue  to
  operate  through licensed dentists while conforming to the provisions of
  this title. Any such corporation which shall be dissolved  or  cease  to
  exist  or  operate  for  any reason whatsoever shall not be permitted to
  resume operations. No such corporation shall change its name or sell its
  franchise or transfer its corporate rights directly  or  indirectly,  by
  transfer  of  capital  stock  control  or otherwise, to any person or to
  another corporation without permission  from  the  department,  and  any
  corporation  so  changing  its  name or so transferring its franchise or
  corporate rights  without  such  permission  shall  be  deemed  to  have
  forfeited  its rights to exist and may be dissolved by an action brought
  by the attorney general.
    6. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of any general,  special
  or  local  law,  any  licensed  dentist  who voluntarily and without the
  expectation of monetary compensation  renders  first  aid  or  emergency
  treatment  at  the scene of an accident or other emergency, outside of a
  hospital or any other place having proper and necessary  medical  equip-
  ment, to a person who is unconscious, ill or injured shall not be liable
  for  damages  for injuries alleged to have been sustained by such person
  or for damages for the death of such person alleged to have occurred  by
  reason  of  an  act  or  omission  in the rendering of such first aid or
  emergency treatment unless it is established that such injuries were  or
  such  death  was caused by gross negligence on the part of such dentist.
  Nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed or construed  to  relieve  a
  licensed dentist from liability for damages for injuries or death caused

  by  an  act  or  omission  on  the  part  of  a  dentist while rendering
  professional services in the normal and ordinary course of practice.
    7.  Any  dentist or dental hygienist, who in the performance of dental
  services, x-rays the mouth or  teeth  of  a  patient  shall  during  the
  performance  of  such  x-rays  shield the torso and thyroid area of such
  patient including but not limited to the gonads and  other  reproductive
  organs  with  a  lead  apron thyroid collar, or other similar protective
  garment or device. Notwithstanding the provisions of  this  subdivision,
  if  in  the  dentist's professional judgment the use of a thyroid collar
  would be inappropriate under the circumstances, because of the nature of
  the patient, the type of  x-ray  being  taken,  or  other  factors,  the
  dentist or dental hygienist need not shield the thyroid area.
    8.  An  unlicensed person may provide supportive services to a dentist
  incidental to and concurrent with such dentist personally  performing  a
  service  or procedure. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to
  allow an unlicensed person to provide any service which constitutes  the
  practice of dentistry or dental hygiene as defined in this article.
    9.  There  shall be no monetary liability on the part of, and no cause
  of action for damages shall  arise  against,  any  person,  partnership,
  corporation,   firm,   society,  or  other  entity  on  account  of  the
  communication of information in the possession of such person or entity,
  or on  account  of  any  recommendation  or  evaluation,  regarding  the
  qualifications,  fitness,  or  professional  conduct  or  practices of a
  dentist, to any governmental agency, dental or specialists  society,  or
  hospital  as  defined  in article twenty-eight of the public health law.
  The foregoing shall  not  apply  to  information  which  is  untrue  and
  communicated with malicious intent.
    10.  Beginning  January  first,  two thousand nine, each dentist shall
  become certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from an approved
  provider and thereafter maintain current certification, which  shall  be
  included  in  the mandatory hours of continuing education acceptable for
  dentists to the extent provided in the  commissioner's  regulations.  In
  the  event the dentist cannot physically perform CPR, the commissioner's
  regulations shall allow the dentist to  make  arrangements  for  another
  individual in the office to administer CPR.