1. A. A dentist may utilize a dental laboratory technician and a dental laboratory to perform or provide dental laboratory technology. Except as provided in subsection C of Section 328.36 of this title, a dentist who utilizes the services of a dental laboratory technician or dental laboratory shall furnish a laboratory prescription for each patient for whom a work product is prescribed.
2. B. Laboratory prescriptions issued by a dentist shall be in duplicate on consecutively numbered forms approved by the Board of Dentistry and shall be completed in full and signed by the prescribing dentist. The owner of a dental laboratory shall retain each original laboratory prescription received from a prescribing dentist and produce the document for inspection and copying by a member of the Board or by an agent or employee of the Board, for a period of three (3) years from the date of the laboratory prescription. The prescribing dentist shall retain the duplicate copy of each laboratory prescription and produce the document for inspection and copying by a member of the Board or by an agent or employee of the Board, for a period of three (3) years from the date of the laboratory prescription.
3. C. The number of the laboratory prescription shall appear on all dental models and correspond to all dental restorations, appliances or other devices being constructed, reproduced or repaired. Any dental model, restoration, appliance or other device in the possession of a dental laboratory technician or dental laboratory without a laboratory prescription and corresponding number on the model, restoration, appliance or device shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of the State Dental Act. After completion, the prescribed work product shall be returned by the dental laboratory technician or dental laboratory to the prescribing dentist or the dental office of the dentist with the name or number of the laboratory prescription accompanying the invoice.

Laws 1970, SB 632, c. 173, § 20, emerg. eff. July 1, 1970; Amended by Laws 1996, HB 1880, c. 2, § 5, eff. November 1, 1996; Renumbered from 59 O.S. § 328.20 by Laws 1999, SB 296, c. 280, § 4, eff. November 1, 1999; Amended by Laws 1999, SB 296, c. 280, § 11, eff. November 1, 1999.