§448-19  Using assumed name or degree
prohibited.  Nothing in this chapter shall permit the performance of dental
operations by an unlicensed person under cover of the name of a registered and
licensed practitioner, and no person shall practice dentistry under an assumed
name, title, or degree.  Any person practicing dentistry under a false or
assumed name, or who assumes the degree of "Doctor of Dental Surgery"
or "Doctor of Dental Medicine", or appends the letters
"D.D.S.", or "D.D.M." to the person's name, the same not
having been duly conferred on the person by some college or school legally
empowered to confer the same; or assumes any title or appends any letters to
the person's name with intent to represent falsely that the person has received
a dental degree or license, shall be guilty of a failure to comply with this
chapter and shall be punished as in this chapter provided. [L 1903, c 40, §9;
RL 1925, §1078; RL 1935, §993; RL 1945, §2165; RL 1955, §61-19; HRS §448-19;
gen ch 1985]