Tex. Occupations Code § 259.005
This is the official text of Tex. Occupations Code § 259.005, part of Texas’s Occupations Code — governs professional and occupational licensing.
Not legal advice. This page reproduces the official text of a government statute for reference only. Laws change, and how a statute applies depends on your specific facts. For advice about your situation, consult a licensed attorney in your state.
§ 259.005. AUTHORIZED ADVERTISING RESTRICTIONS.
Official statutory text
Board rules adopted under Section 254.002 to regulate advertising may include restrictions that prohibit communications to the public that:
(1) are false, misleading, or deceptive;
(2) state an opinion regarding the quality of dental services;
(3) appeal to an individual's anxiety in an excessive or unfair way;
(4) intimidate or exert undue pressure or undue influence over a prospective patient;
(5) create unjustified expectations concerning the potential result of a dental treatment;
(6) refer to benefits or other attributes of dental procedures or products that involve significant risks without including realistic assessments of the safety and efficacy of those procedures or products;
(7) contain statistical data, representations, or other information that is not susceptible to reasonable verification by the public;
(8) refer to a fee for dental services without disclosing that additional fees may be involved in individual cases, if the possibility of additional fees may be reasonably predicted;
(9) offer a discount for dental services without disclosing the total fee to which the discount will apply; or
(10) fail to make truthful disclosure of the source and authorship of any message published under a dentist's byline.
(1) are false, misleading, or deceptive;
(2) state an opinion regarding the quality of dental services;
(3) appeal to an individual's anxiety in an excessive or unfair way;
(4) intimidate or exert undue pressure or undue influence over a prospective patient;
(5) create unjustified expectations concerning the potential result of a dental treatment;
(6) refer to benefits or other attributes of dental procedures or products that involve significant risks without including realistic assessments of the safety and efficacy of those procedures or products;
(7) contain statistical data, representations, or other information that is not susceptible to reasonable verification by the public;
(8) refer to a fee for dental services without disclosing that additional fees may be involved in individual cases, if the possibility of additional fees may be reasonably predicted;
(9) offer a discount for dental services without disclosing the total fee to which the discount will apply; or
(10) fail to make truthful disclosure of the source and authorship of any message published under a dentist's byline.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
Need a lawyer in Texas?
Find a Texas lawyer
About this page: Statute text is reproduced from official government publishers via the
Open US Law dataset
(Vaquill AI, snapshot v2026.08, CC BY 4.0). Primary legislative text like this is public domain under the government-edicts doctrine
(Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). We link every section back to its official source so you can verify it independently.