California has passed a new law (AB 171) regulating the way credit cards and other loan products are handled in dental offices, according to a report on Rimoftheworld.net.
The law is designed to protect elderly, low-income, or limited-English-speaking dental patients from signing up for credit without understanding what they are doing, the report said.
Dental offices can't arrange credit while patients are under anesthesia, the report said. They must give information in the patient's primary language, and costs must be refunded if dental services aren't provided within 15 days.
