{"id":"AR-036","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Arkansas","state":"AR","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Secretary of Health, Arkansas Department of Health","authority":"Ark. Code Ann. 20-7-109 to -110","instrument":"ADH Directive to Dentists to suspend non-emergent dental care (March 23, 2020)","title":"Directive limiting dental practice to emergency care","dateIssued":"2020-03-23","effective":"2020-03-23","end":"2020-05-18 (dental resumption directive, Ex. AR-058)","startDate":"2020-03-23","endDate":"2020-05-18","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["HC"],"addressees":["dentists and dental practices"],"clause":"The Secretary of Health, as of March 23, 2020, directs and mandates that all dental practitioners follow the recommendation of the Arkansas State Board of Dental Examiners and the American Dental Association that only urgent and emergent dental care take place, and that non-emergent dental care be suspended until further notice.","enforcement":"Ark. Code Ann. 20-7-101 misdemeanor","functions":["CH chairside care","PR elective and aerosol-generating procedures","EM emergency-only period","FD scheduling"],"notes":"Memorandum to \u0027Arkansas Dentists\u0027 from Secretary of Health Nate Smith; lists urgent treatments (pulpal pain, pericoronitis, abscess, fracture, trauma); adopts the State Board of Dental Examiners\u0027 recommendation as a mandate.","sourceUrl":"https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/pdf/Directive_for_Dentists_03192020.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200420000000/https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/pdf/Directive_for_Dentists_03192020.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":512648,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AR","url":"/library/AR-036","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AR-036","citation":"Secretary of Health, Arkansas Department of Health, ADH Directive to Dentists to suspend non-emergent dental care (March 23, 2020) (Mar. 23, 2020) (Ex. AR-036)","stateName":"Arkansas","related":["AR-058","AR-037","AR-035","AR-038","AR-042","AR-043","AR-045","AR-040","AR-044","AR-041","AR-046","AR-054"]}