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tending to deceive or mislead the public. Advertising professional superi-
ority of the performance of professional services in a superior manner.
Advertising definite fixed prices when the nature of the professional service
to be rendered and the materials required must be variable. Advertising
to practice dentistry without causing pain, or the advertising of the use of
any drug, nostrum, patent or proprietary medicine of any unknown for-
mulae, or to advertise any system of anesthetics which is unnamed or not
in reality used. No corporation shall display any signs or advertise in
any manner except in the names of the duly licensed dentists practicing
dentistry in connection with said corporation, and all corporations, indi-
viduals or groups of dentists are hereby expressly prohibited from using
in the practice of dentistry any parlor or parlor name or display any sign
or advertisement of any parlor, trade or assumed name under which the
business may be conducted. The employment or making use of advertis-
ing solicitors or of free public press agents, is hereby prohibited.

1933, ch. 564, sec. 9.

9. Every person shall be deemed to be practicing dentistry within the
meaning of the penalties of this Article, (a) who is a manager, proprietor,
operator or conductor of a place performing dental operations, or who for
a fee, salary or other reward paid or to be paid either to himself or to an-
other person, or gratuitously performs or advertises to perform dental
operations of any kind, diagnoses or treats diseases, lesions, malocchesion
or mal-position of the human teeth or jaw mechanically or medically, or by
use of x-ray, or who attempts to correct mal-positions, thereof, or who
attempts to perform any operation incident to replacement of teeth, or
who uses the word "Dentist, " "Dental Surgeon, " the letters "D. D. S. ",
"D. M. D. ", or other letters or titles in connection with his name which
in any way represents him as being engaged in the practice of dentistry,
(b) On and after the passage of this Act it shall be unlawful for any
person or persons to practice or offer to practice dentistry or dental surgery
under any name except his proper name, which shall be the name used
in his license granted to him as a dentist, as provided for in this Article;
and unlawful to use the name of any company, association, corporation,
trade name, or business name in connection with the practice of dentistry as
defined in this law. (c) Nothing in this Article shall apply to a bona fide
student of dentistry in the clinic rooms of a reputable dental college; to a
legally qualified physician or surgeon unless he practices dentistry as a
specialist; to schools, to state, charitable institutions or corporations which
may maintain clinics for employees only which shall be directed by a
legally qualified dentist, to a dental surgeon of the United States Army,
Navy, Public Health Service, or Veterans' Bureau, in the discharge of
his official duties; nor to a lawful practitioner of dentistry of another
State or Territory, making a clinical demonstration before a dental
society convention, association of dentists, or dental colleges, or perform-
ing his duties in connection with a specific case on which he may have
been called to the State of Maryland.