DENTISTRY 1381

1937, ch. 306, sec. 15.

16. Any person shall be deemed to be practicing dentistry, within
the meaning of this Article, (a) who is a manager, proprietor, or con-
ductor of, or an operator in, any place in which any dental service or any
dental operation is performed within the mouth of any person; or (b)
who for a fee, salary, or other remuneration or reward, paid or to be paid
to himself or to another, or gratuitously or otherwise, performs any such
service or operation; or (e) who diagnoses or treats, or attempts to diagnose
or treat, any disease, lesion, malocclusion, or malposition of a tooth, gum
or jaw, in any person, mechanically, medicinally, by use of X-ray, or
otherwise; or (d) who attempts to perform in the mouth of any per-
son any operation incident to the repair or replacement of a tooth or
teeth; or (e) who publicly or privately applies to himself the title
"Dentist" or "Dental Surgeon" or uses'the letters D.D.S. or D.M.D.,
or any other titles or letters in connection with his name which, in any
way, represent him as being competent or ready to perform any dental
service or any dental operation in any human mouth. This sub-section
shall have no application to any person who is the holder of a dental degree
who does not, either directly or indirectly, practice, or attempt to practice,
dentistry as hereinbefore set forth in this Section 16.

1937, ch. 306, sec. 16.

17. Nothing in this Article shall apply to a bona fide student of den-
tistry in the clinic rooms of a reputable dental college; to a legally quali-
fied physician or surgeon unless he practices dentistry as a specialty; 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, territory or foreign country
making a clinical demonstration before a dental society, dental convention,
association of dentists, or dental college, or in performing professional
duties in connection with a specific case on which he may have been called
to the State of Maryland. Nothing in this Article shall apply to public
school clinics, to state institutions, to eleemosynary institutions, or to
business corporations which may maintain clinics for pupils, inmates or
employees only which shall employ only legally qualified dentists. No
such public school clinic, State institution, eleemosynary institution, or
business corporation shall advertise in any manner or by any method, either
directly or indirectly, anything relative to the practice of dentistry. Such
institutions are prohibited not only from advertising in violation of this
Article, but are prohibited from advertising in any manner anything rela-
tive to the practice of dentistry. Nothing in this Article shall prohibit
the Dental Division of the State Department of Health, or the Director
of the Public School Clinics of the City Health Department from broad-
casting educational programs over the radio.

1937, ch. 306, sec. 17.

18. All persons now authorized to practice dentistry in this State,
and those who may be hereafter registered under the provisions of this
Article, shall be exempt from service as jurors in any of the Courts of
this State during the continuance of the practice of their profession.