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Advocacy and Legislative Update
the ADA was unconstitutional. As a result, states
with similar language started to revise their
specialty advertising laws. Some states were inclined
to take radical approaches, going as far as
scrapping the whole specialty advertising rules
altogether, effectively allowing practitioners to
name their fields of practice as they wished. This
development was worrisome because practitioners
would be able to call themselves specialists
in a field with limited education or training;
for example, even a weekend continuing education
course could be seen as specialty training.
This would have meant further confusion in the
general public and a significant dilution in the
value of specialty training. Similarly, the Dental
Quality Assurance Commission of Washington
received a petition for rulemaking in 2017
requesting that they recognize the American
Board of Dental Specialties member boards and
areas of specialty or remove all the specialty
language.
For five years, the WSSO, WSDA, and AAO legal
counsel worked together diligently to respond
to the concerns raised originally by the Texas
lawsuit and to define a language that would
protect the right to be called a dental specialist.
The language that was ultimately adopted by the
dental board of Washington on April 30, 2021, is
supported by the ADA, AAO, and other professional
specialty societies:
In order to protect the public from
inherently misleading claims of
specialty expertise by dentists who
are not adequately trained and
experienced, a licensed dentist can
call themselves specialist...only if
they complete a CODA [Commission
on Dental Accreditation] approved
postdoctoral education program
of at least two years in length...or
have completed an ADA recognized
specialty program...or if they are a
graduate of any other post-graduate
accredited dental program of at least
2 years of length approved by the US
Department of Education.
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