Sec. 5b of the Illinois Dental Practice Act requires a licensed dentist who employs or engages the services of a person firm or corporation to construct or repair prosthetic appliance, to furnish a written work order on form approved by Illinois Department of Regulation and Education, which shall contain: (1) Name and address of person, firm or corporation to which work is directed. (2) Patient’s name or identification number, and if number is used, patients name must be written upon duplicate copy retained by dentist. (3) Date on which work order was written. (4) Description of work to be done, including diagrams if necessary. (5) Specification of type of and quality of materials to be used. (6) Signature of Dentist and number of their License.
Dentist and Laboratory must retain their respective copies of work order for three (3) years for inspection at any reasonable time by the Department of Registration and Education or its duly authorized agents.
Failure of dentist to comply in any given case is a misdemeanor, and license may be revoked or suspended. Failure of laboratory to comply is a misdemeanor.
Sec. 5b of Illinois Dental Practice Act provides: “If a person, firm or corporation receiving a written order from a licensed dentist engages another person, firm or corporation (herein referred to as “sub-contractor”) to perform some of the services relative to such work order, he or it shall furnish a written sub-work order with respect thereto on forms prescribed by the Department of Registration and Education which shall contain (a) The name and address of the sub-contractor. (b) A number identifying the sub-work order with the original work order, which number endorsed on the work order received from the licensed dentist. (c) The date on which the sub-work order was written. (d) Description of work to be done by sub-contractor including diagrams if necessary. (e) A Specification of type of and quality of materials to be used. (f) The signature of the person, firm or corporation issuing the sub-work. The sub-contractor shall retain the sub-work order and the issuer thereof shall retain a duplicate copy, attached to the work order retained by the licensed dentist, for inspection by the Department of Registration and Education or its duly authorized agents for a period of 3 years in both cases. Failure of laboratories to comply is a misdemeanor.
