Mississippi Code Title 83. Insurance § 83-51-1. Definitions

(a) “Health insurance policy” means any individual, group, blanket or franchise insurance policy, insurance agreement or group hospital service contract which provides benefits for dental care expenses incurred as a result of an accident or sickness;

(b) “Employee benefit plan” means any plan, fund or program heretofore or hereafter established or maintained by an employer or by an employee organization, or by both, to the extent that such plan, fund or program was established or is maintained for the purpose of providing for its participants or their beneficiaries, through the purchase of insurance or otherwise, dental care benefits in the event of accident or sickness;

(c) “Dental care services” means those general and usual services furnished to any person for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing or healing human dental illness or injury as defined in Sections 73-9-1 through 73-9-65, Mississippi Code of 1972.

(d) “Dentist” means any person who furnishes dental care services and who is licensed as a dentist by the State of Mississippi.