(a) Attempting to obtain, obtaining, or renewing a license under this chapter by bribery, fraudulent
misrepresentations, or through an error of the department or the board.
(b) Having a license to practice dentistry or dental hygiene revoked, suspended, or otherwise acted
against, including the denial of licensure, by the licensing authority of another state, territory, or country.
(c) Being convicted or found guilty of or entering a plea of nolo contendere to, regardless of
adjudication, a crime in any jurisdiction which relates to the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene. A
plea of nolo contendere shall create a rebuttable presumption of guilt to the underlying criminal charges.
(d) Advertising goods or services in a manner which is fraudulent, false, deceptive, or misleading in
form or content contrary to s. 466.019 or rules of the board adopted pursuant thereto.
(e) Advertising, practicing, or attempting to practice under a name other than one’s own.
(f) Failing to report to the department any person who the licensee knows, or has reason to believe, is
clearly in violation of this chapter or of the rules of the department or the board. However, a person who
the licensee knows, or has reason to believe, is clearly unable to practice her or his profession with
reasonable skill and safety to patients by reason of illness or use of alcohol, drugs, narcotics, chemicals,
or any other type of material, or as a result of a mental or physical condition, may be reported to a
consultant operating an impaired practitioner program as described in s. 456.076 rather than to the
department.
(g) Aiding, assisting, procuring, or advising any unlicensed person to practice dentistry or dental
hygiene contrary to this chapter or to a rule of the department or the board.
(h) Being employed by any corporation, organization, group, or person other than a dentist or a
professional corporation or limited liability company composed of dentists to practice dentistry.
(i) Failing to perform any statutory or legal obligation placed upon a licensee.
(j) Making or filing a report which the licensee knows to be false, failing to file a report or record
required by state or federal law, knowingly impeding or obstructing such filing or inducing another person
to do so. Such reports or records shall include only those which are signed in the capacity as a licensee.
(k) Committing any act which would constitute sexual battery, as defined in chapter 794, upon a patient
or intentionally touching the sexual organ of a patient.
(l) Making deceptive, untrue, or fraudulent representations in or related to the practice of dentistry.
(m) Failing to keep written dental records and medical history records justifying the course of treatment
of the patient including, but not limited to, patient histories, examination results, test results, and X rays,
if taken.
(n) Failing to make available to a patient or client, or to her or his legal representative or to the
department if authorized in writing by the patient, copies of documents in the possession or under control
of the licensee which relate to the patient or client.
(o) Performing professional services which have not been duly authorized by the patient or client, or her
or his legal representative, except as provided in ss. 766.103 and 768.13.
(p) Prescribing, procuring, dispensing, administering, mixing, or otherwise preparing a legend drug,
including any controlled substance, other than in the course of the professional practice of the dentist.
For the purposes of this paragraph, it shall be legally presumed that prescribing, procuring, dispensing,
administering, mixing, or otherwise preparing legend drugs, including all controlled substances, in
excessive or inappropriate quantities is not in the best interest of the patient and is not in the course of
the professional practice of the dentist, without regard to her or his intent.
(q) Prescribing, procuring, dispensing, or administering any medicinal drug appearing on any schedule
set forth in chapter 893, by a dentist to herself or himself, except those prescribed, dispensed, or
administered to the dentist by another practitioner authorized to prescribe them.
(r) Prescribing, procuring, ordering, dispensing, administering, supplying, selling, or giving any drug
which is a Schedule II amphetamine or a Schedule II sympathomimetic amine drug or a compound
thereof, pursuant to chapter 893, to or for any person except for the clinical investigation of the effects of
such drugs or compounds when an investigative protocol therefor is submitted to, and reviewed and
approved by, the board before such investigation is begun.
(s) Being unable to practice her or his profession with reasonable skill and safety to patients by reason
of illness or use of alcohol, drugs, narcotics, chemicals, or any other type of material or as a result of any
mental or physical condition. In enforcing this paragraph, the department shall have, upon a finding of
the State Surgeon General or her or his designee that probable cause exists to believe that the licensee is