Administration
Known as the Dental Practice Act
The act spans §§ 1600–1621 (30 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 1 Cal. 3d 160 - Pinsker v. Pacific Coast Society of Orthodontists (1969)
Most recently applied in Jeffrey Sulitzer v. Joseph Tippins (March 2022)
Added by Stats. 1937, Ch. 415.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
This chapter constitutes the chapter on dentistry of the Business and Professions Code. It may be known and cited as the Dental Practice Act.
Whenever a reference is made to the Dental Practice Act by the provisions of any statute, it shall be construed as referring to the provisions of this chapter.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.