(a) “Assessment” means the review and documentation of the oral condition and the recognition and documentation of deviations from the healthy condition, without a diagnosis to determine the cause or nature of disease or its treatment;
(b) “Auxiliary personnel” means all dental assistants, dental technicians, dental x-ray technicians and other persons employed by dentists or firms and businesses providing dental services to dentists;
(c) “Board” means the Board of Dental Examiners;
(d) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of the Department of Health;
(e) “Dental assistant” means a person who may perform basic supportive procedures as authorized by this subchapter under direct supervision of a licensed dentist;
(f) “Dental hygienist” means any person licensed and engaged in the general practice of dental hygiene and all related or associated duties including educational, clinical and therapeutic dental hygiene procedures;
(g) “Dentist” means an individual who holds a license to practice dentistry in the Virgin Islands;
(h) “Dentistry” or “practice of dentistry” means the evaluation, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, correction, change, relief, prescription of remedy, nonsurgical or surgical operation and adjunctive treatment or related procedures for any disease, disorder, pain, deformity, deficiency, injury, defect, lesion or physical condition involving either or both of the functional and aesthetic aspects of the teeth, gingiva, jaws and adjacent hard and soft tissue of the oral cavity and maxillofacial area or the adjacent and associated structures and the impact of the disease, disorder, or condition of the human body, including prescription or administration of any drug, medicine, biologic, apparatus, brace, anesthetic or other therapeutic or diagnostic substance or technique by an individual or the individual’s agent or employee, so long as a dentist is performing any such act, operation, or service within the scope of his or her education, training and experience gratuitously or for any fee, reward, emolument or any other form of compensation whether direct or indirect in accordance with applicable law;
(i) “Dental hygiene” or “practice of supervised dental hygiene” means that portion of dentistry that includes the rendering of educational, preventive and therapeutic dental services in general, but specifically, scaling, root planeing, curettage and any related intraoral or extraoral procedure required in the performance of such services;
(j) “Direct supervision” means the supervision of those tasks or procedures that do not require the presence of the dentist in the room where performed but require the dentist’s presence on the premises and availability for prompt consultation, treatment and evaluation.
(k) “Indirect supervision” means the supervision of those tasks or procedures that do not require the presence of the dentist in the office or on the premises at the time such tasks or procedures are being performed, but do require that the tasks be performed with the prior knowledge and consent of the dentist;
(l) “License” means the grant of authority by the Board to any person to engage in the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene, which is a privilege personal to the licensee and may be revoked, suspended, or subjected to disciplinary conditions by the Board for violation of any of the provisions of this subchapter is null and void upon the failure of the licensee to file an application for renewal and to pay the fee as required;
(m) “Practitioner” means a person engaged in the practice of dentistry or any field related to dentistry;
(n) “Premises” for purposes of subsections (j) and (k) only, means within the same building, dental office, or treatment facility and within close enough proximity to respond in a timely manner to an emergency or the need for assistance; and