Eight modules, plus a free bonus module · ten quizzes · about five and a half hours · Rs. 2,499, normally Rs. 3,999

The Dental Chair and the Law

The law, the records and the process around your dental practice

The Dental Council of India and the Dentists Act, 1948 went on 19 March 2026, and much of what dentists are told about the law of practice was out of date before that. Who regulates you now, what you may post, what a consent for an implant or an extraction has to show when there is no dental consent regulation at all, how long to keep a radiograph, what the X-ray room and the waste need on paper, what a patient can bring against you, and whose patient it is when you sign off an aligner plan. This course sets each of those against the Act, the Code of Ethics still in force, the rules and the reported cases, says plainly where the law is silent or unsettled, and leaves you a document to keep in the clinic after every module. It teaches the law, the records and the process. It teaches no clinical dentistry.

Written by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, a medical practitioner qualified in law, in consultation with a High Court advocate. She is not a dentist. This course teaches the law, the records and the process; it teaches no clinical dentistry.

8written modules

10scored quizzes

45applied questions

8printable documents

5.7hours in total

12months of access

Founding price

Rs. 2,499then Rs. 3,999

For the first 200 enrolments. One payment, twelve months of access.

Why there are two prices

Why the two figures, plainly. Rs. 3,999 is the standing price of this course, and the system that takes your payment is set to charge it from the 201st enrolment. Rs. 2,499 is the founding price for the first 200 places. It is an early place, not a discount. The course does not change between the two prices, other than the dated updates every course in the Academy receives, and a later rise never applies to a course you have already paid for.

The founding price is limited to the first 200 enrolments. The standing price after that is Rs. 3,999. One payment, no subscription and no renewal. Twelve months of access to all eight modules, all ten quizzes and the certificate. A later price rise never applies to a course you have already paid for, and nothing further is ever charged for it.

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What you will be able to do when you have finished

Not what you will have heard about. What you will be able to do, on a Tuesday, with the thing in your hand.

Say who regulates you now that the National Dental Commission has replaced the Dental Council of India, which code of ethics still binds you and why, where a complaint against you goes, and what you, a hygienist and your chairside staff may and may not do.
Check a post, a reel, a before and after photograph or an offer before it goes out, against the code's rules on advertising and the consumer law on misleading claims.
Take a consent for an implant, an extraction, orthodontic treatment or sedation that shows what was explained and what was agreed, with the estimate, and know whose consent you need for a child.
Keep a record and radiographs of the kind a consumer commission expects, know how long to keep them, and answer a request for copies within the time the code sets.
Say what to ask about your X-ray or CBCT unit, your waste and your premises before an inspector or a complaint asks it for you.
Name the forums a patient can go to after a numb lip, a failed crown or a lost implant, and secure your record without altering it in the first seventy two hours.
Say whose patient it is when you approve an aligner plan on a screen or work as an associate in a chain, and what to check before you sign.
Say who may see your patients' photographs, scans and records, what changes when the data protection rules take full effect in May 2027, and where your responsibility stops when a laboratory makes the crown.

How much of your time this takes

About five and a half hours in total, and none of it has to be done in one sitting. The course remembers where you are, on whichever device you open it on, one device at a time.

Eight written lessons, 26,130 words	about 145 minutes
Eight printable documents, 4,782 words	about 24 minutes
Ten quizzes, 45 questions, with the authority explained on every answer	about 75 minutes
The scenarios to think through, and the authorities to check if you want to	about 60 minutes
The free bonus module, on running your practice as a business	about 36 minutes
Everything, 50,130 words	about 5 hours 40 minutes

Written in fifteen minute pieces, to be read on a phone between patients. Each module leaves you a document you print and keep in the clinic.

How the course runsStart to certificate

Eight written modules. About nineteen minutes each, read in any order, at your own pace, on a phone or a laptop. Every legal proposition carries the case, section or regulation it rests on, so you can check it. Each module also leaves you a document you can use: a scope and staffing sheet, a dental advertising checklist, an implant consent set with extraction, orthodontic, sedation and child consent skeletons, a records retention note, an AERB and premises checklist, a first seventy two hours note for a complaint, an aligner prescription responsibility note, and a photograph consent with a laboratory work order standard.

A scored quiz at the end of each module. Five applied questions, not definitions: a situation, and what you would do. Four out of five to pass. Retake it as often as you like, and the authority is explained on every answer, right and wrong. Your best score is the one kept.

A final quiz across all eight modules. It opens once you have passed all eight module quizzes. Sixteen questions, two drawn from each module, twelve out of sixteen to pass. Your sixteen are not the same as anybody else’s. Retake it as often as you need.

A certificate of completion, issued once the eight module quizzes and the final quiz are all passed. It is signed by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, MBBS, DCH, LLB, LLM, and carries a number anyone you show it to can check on this site. It is a certificate of completion: not a diploma, not a certification, not recognised by the National Dental Commission, any State Dental Council, any university or any Bar body, and it carries no continuing education credit.

The modules

01Who regulates you now, and what you may doYou will be able to say who regulates you now that the Dental Council of India has gone, which code of ethics binds you and why that is a reading, where a complaint goes and where an appeal lies, what your staff may and may not do at the chair, which titles you may use, and where facial aesthetics stands; and you will have a written sheet that records it for your practice.Open first

02What you may post: smiles, before and after, offers and influencersYou will be able to say what the dental code permits you to publish and what it forbids, why a before and after reel is a problem even with the patient's agreement, which words turn an advertisement into a promise you may have to prove, where offers, camps and influencer fees cross the line, and where education becomes advertising; and you will have a checklist to run before anything goes out.19 min

03Consent that holds: implants, extractions, orthodontics and sedationYou will be able to say where a dentist's duty to take consent comes from when no dental regulation sets it, take and record a consent that shows what the patient understood, give a written estimate of the kind the Code expects, handle sedation and a child in the chair lawfully, and use a consent set built for implants, extractions, orthodontics and sedation.19 min

04Records, radiographs and how long to keep themYou will be able to say what your dental record includes and where each part of it lives, how long the code requires you to keep it and how long it is wise to keep it, how to answer a request for records within 72 hours, and why radiographs so often decide dental complaints; and you will have a written retention note that shows it.19 min

05The X-ray, the waste and the premisesYou will be able to list the questions you must answer before you switch on an X-ray or CBCT unit, handle sharps, extracted teeth, amalgam and fixer in line with the waste rules and the professional guidance, say where your clinic stands under Maharashtra's premises law and when that changes, and know what the shops law requires of you; and you will have a checklist that records it.19 min

06When it goes wrong: consumer complaints, Council complaints and the policeYou will be able to say which forums an unhappy patient can take you to and what each one asks, what the reported dental consumer cases turned on, how a complaint now reaches your State Dental Council and where an appeal lies, what the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita does and does not say about dentists, and what to do and not do in the first seventy-two hours; and you will have a sheet that sits in the clinic before it is needed.19 min

07Aligners, chains and remote treatment plansYou will be able to say what governs remote dental work when no teledentistry rule exists, what you take on when you approve a plan you did not make, which payment arrangements the dental code bars and which are unsettled, what to do when a company's or a chain's advertising uses your name, and which records you must keep yourself; and you will have a responsibility note to complete before you approve your next plan.19 min

08Patient data, photographs and the dental laboratoryYou will be able to say who may see and use your patients' records, photographs and scans, what the data law asks of your clinic now and from 13 May 2027, how to take a separate permission for each use of a photograph, and where your responsibility for a laboratory's work begins and ends; and you will have a photograph consent and a laboratory work order standard to use.19 min

BRunning your practice as a business Bonus, freeYou will be able to read an associate or chain agreement for the questions that matter, check on what basis your indemnity policy covers you and what happens when you stop, weigh a partnership against an LLP with your eyes open, choose a practice name the code allows and decide who owns it, and close or sell a practice without leaving patients or their records behind; and you will have a one-page practice structure and exit sheet.Free bonus · 18 min

About the bonus module

The bonus module is included and costs nothing extra. Most dental disputes that are not about a patient are about the practice itself: an associate agreement nobody read, a percentage arrangement that may be fee splitting, a professional indemnity policy that stops the day you stop paying, a clinic name somebody else registered first, and patient records nobody planned for when a practice closes or is sold. The module sets out what to look for in each and leaves you a one-page checklist. It sits outside the eight: it is not in the final quiz and it is not needed for the certificate. It has its own scored quiz if you want one.

The small printEducation, not advice on your matter. Not clinical teaching. No outcome promised.

This is education, not advice on your matter. Nothing in the course is advice about any particular patient, complaint, notice or case, and reading it does not create a relationship of adviser and client.

It is not clinical teaching. No module tells you how to examine, diagnose or treat any patient. Every clinical decision mentioned in it belongs to you and your clinic, and the author is not a dentist. Where official guidance on a clinical subject is quoted, the source is named and it is quoted for context only.

Nothing is promised as an outcome. No course prevents a complaint, and none of this guarantees how any forum will decide anything.

Where a matter needs a lawyer, we say so. Representation before any forum, and any formal legal opinion, is arranged separately with a High Court advocate and is charged separately.

The material is licensed to you alone. It may not be recorded, copied, shared, resold or circulated. Pages carry the name and email of the person they were issued to.