State Medical & Dental Scope of Practice State State Medical Law Citation State Medical Scope of Practice State Dental Law C
State Medical & Dental Scope of Practice State State State Medical Scope of Practice State State Dental Scope of Practice Comments Medical Dental Law Law Does the Statute allow a DDS to diagnose and Citation Citation treat a patient with OSA? AL Section "Practice of medicine or osteopathy" defined. Section Practice of Dentistry. (1) Performs, or attempts or professes to No. §34-24-50 §34-9-6 perform, any dental operation or dental service of any kind, The "practice of medicine or osteopathy" means: gratuitously or for a salary, fee, money or other remuneration The Alabama Statute allows a dentist to ONLY “diagnose, paid, or to be paid, directly or indirectly, to himself or herself, prescribe for, professes to prescribe for, treats or professes to treat (1) To diagnose, treat, correct, advise, or prescribe or to any person in his or her behalf, or to any agency which is disease, pain, deformity, deficiency, injury, or physical condition of for any human disease, ailment, injury, infirmity, a proprietor of a place where dental operations or dental the human teeth or jaws, or adjacent structure, or who extracts or deformity, pain, or other condition, physical or services are performed. attempts to extract human teeth, or remove tumors, abnormal mental, real or imaginary, by any means or growths, or other lesions from the human gums, jaws, and instrumentality; (2) Directly or indirectly, by any means or method, makes adjacent structures, or who operates for cleft lip or palate, or both; impression of the human tooth, teeth, jaws or adjacent tissue, or who treats surgically or mechanically fractures of the human (2) To maintain an office or place of business for the or performs any phase of any operation incident to the jaw; or who administers local or general anesthetics in the purpose of doing acts described in subdivision (1), replacement of a tooth or any part thereof.
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