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D E N T A r, r< A us CO N D K N S I'. P. 87
Article \ I. The dentist shall keep a note-book, and register
therein the name, age, residence, occupation, disease, and treatment
of every patient treated. The note-book shall be preserved for ten
years.
Article \ II. Xo dentist is allowed to make a false advertise-
ment by exaggerating his art, or announce that he has a secret
method of treatment.
•Article \'III. Dentists may establish a Dentists' Association.
Regulations for the Dentists' Association shall be detenuined by
the -Minister of State for Home Affairs.
Article IX. The Dentists' Association may answer inquiries
of the government authorities, or give advice to them concerning
dental and sanitary affairs.
Article X. The license of any dentist who comes under the
first or third clause of Article II shall be revoked. When a dentist
is punished with imprisonment, or is fined, or commits a wicked
act in connection with his profession, his license shall be revoked,
or his practice shall be suspended for a period of certain length.
The same applies if such event had taken place before he obtained
his license. A dentist, whose license has been revoked according to
the present article, may regain it when the cause stated in the third
clause of Article II ceases, or the fact that he is truly repentant is
beyond suspicion. The revocation stated in the present Article shall
be executed by the Minister of State for Home Affairs ; in the case,
however, stated in the second clause, or in the later half of the third
clause, such step shall be taken through the deliberation of the
Central Board of Health.
Article XI. Any person who practises dentistry without a
license, or while his practice is in suspension, or who violates Arti-
cles \ .. VL, and \TI.. shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding
three hundred yen ($149.40).
Article XII. The present law- shall take effect on and after
the first day of October, of the 39th year of Meiji (1906).
Article XIII. The license for dental practice issued before the
present law takes effect, shall be valid, even after the present law-
takes effect.
Imperial Ordinance Xo. 245 of 1906, concerning those persons
entitled to license according to the third clause of Article I. of the
law governing dentists : Only those persons are entitled to license
for dental practice according to the third clause of Article I. of the
Law Concerning Dentists, who has not only obtained a diploma
from a foreign dental school, or license for dental practice in a
foreign country, but who are adjudged by the Minister of Home
Affairs as properly qualified. (Translation.)