Any dentist or dental therapist who treats a patient shall inform the patient about the availability of reasonable alternate modes of treatment and about the benefits and risks of these treatments prior to treating the patient. The reasonable dentist standard is the standard for informing a patient under this section. The reasonable dentist standard requires disclosure only of information that a reasonable dentist would know and disclose under the circumstances. The dentist or dental therapist shall obtain the patient’s informed consent to all services, treatments, or procedures in the treatment plan.

History

History: CR 15-057: cr. Register February 2016 No 722, eff. 3-1-16; EmR2410: emerg. am., eff. 7-26-24; CR 24-094: am. Register July 2025 No. 835, eff. 8-1-25; CR 25-052: am. Register December 2025 No. 840, eff. 1-1-26.