2012 Code of Alabama
Title 34 - PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES.
Chapter 9 - DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS.
Section 34-9-89 - Treatment of patients under 12 years of age.


AL Code § 34-9-89 (2012) What's This?
Section 34-9-89Treatment of patients under 12 years of age.

When oral conscious sedation is used on any patient under 12 years of age, the following provisions shall apply:

(1) The drugs, dosages, and techniques used should carry a margin of safety which is unlikely to render the patient noninteractive and nonarousable.

(2) Appropriately sized emergency equipment must be available.

(Act 2005-298, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 563, §10; Act 2011-571, p. 1165, §1.)

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