Dental practice licensing in Georgia is part of the general regulation of medical practice: a dentist is a holder of a medical specialty, and the right to independent practice is confirmed by the same instrument — a state certificate — rather than a separate license. The pillars of this page are Articles 4, 5, 7, 21 and 28 of the Law on Medical Practice. Foreign dental-board licensing models do not operate in the Georgian system — a dentist's path is defined by the Georgian law.
The specialty system and its elements
Under Article 4 of the Law the Ministry determines the list of medical specialties; the list of adjacent medical specialties; and the list of those medical specialties in which a subject of independent medical practice with a given disease is barred from working. Dental specialties are part of precisely this system: a dentist's qualification is established through the list of specialties, and the boundary of the right is measured by the specialty indicated in the certificate. The third list — the enumeration of contraindications — has practical weight: health-status restrictions are verified both in choosing the specialty and throughout the practice itself.