Eight modules, plus a free bonus module · ten quizzes · about four hours · Rs. 4,999
Dentists and Facial Aesthetics: where the law draws the line
The law around facial aesthetic work by dentists in India, where the line is still contested
Some dentists now offer lip fillers, toxin for a gummy smile and work on the wider face, and the law has not kept pace: the Dentists Act was repealed on 19 March 2026, the medical and dental regulators read the line differently, and courts have been asked to decide it. This course sets out who can act on a complaint about that work, how your degree's text and syllabus read, what is arguable and what they do not reach, what a recognised qualification changes and what a weekend course does not, the registrations, products and records the work needs, what a consent and a photograph have to show, what you may say in public, and what happens when something goes wrong. Where the law is contested, it says so. It teaches the law, the records and the process. It teaches no clinical technique, it does not tell any dentist to start or stop any procedure, and finishing it is not a qualification, licence or authority to do any procedure.
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 technique.
8written modules
10scored quizzes
45applied questions
9working sheets
3.8hours in total
12months of access
Module one freePrintable handout with every moduleCertificate of completion, see a sample
Rs. 4,999
One payment, no subscription and no renewal. Twelve months of access to all eight modules, every quiz, the final quiz and the certificate. A change of price never applies to a course you have already paid for.
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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.
Name who can act on a complaint about a dentist's facial aesthetic work, what each body asks and what it can do, and why the repeal of the Dentists Act changes where a complaint goes, and why, on the course's reading, the old Code of Ethics still applies.
Read the definition of dentistry against seven zones of the face, and say for each how the text reads, what is arguable and what it does not reach. The course does not say which view a court will take.
Tell a recognised qualification from a private course or fellowship, and say what you may and may not write after your name.
Work through the registrations and authorisations a dental clinic should check before offering aesthetic work, with Maharashtra as the worked example.
Say whether each product is a drug, a device or a cosmetic, and what that means for buying, storing, recording and describing it.
Take a consent that tells the patient who is treating them and why, and handle the patient's photographs under the dental rules on confidentiality and publicity.
Test a title, a post or a claim against the dental Code, the Ethics and Dental Registration Board's advisory of October 2026 and the consumer law on misleading advertisements.
Name the routes a patient can take after a complication, and say where a dentist stands in each of them.
How much of your time this takes
About three 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, 17,494 words
about 97 minutes
Eight working sheets, 2,114 words
about 10 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 30 minutes
The free bonus module, on the joint face clinic, with a worked case drill
about 16 minutes
Everything, 33,310 words
about 3 hours 45 minutes
Written in short pieces, to be read on a phone between patients. Each module leaves you a sheet to fill in for your own practice.
How the course runsStart to certificate
1
Eight written modules. About twenty 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 chart of who can act against you, a zone map of your services, a route sheet, a set-up checklist, a product register, a consent and photographs check, a public-facing check, a when-it-goes-wrong file, and a joint clinic check.
2
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.
3
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.
4
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 can act against youYou will be able to name the main bodies that can act on a complaint about a dentist's facial aesthetic work, say what each one looks at and what it can do, explain why the repeal of the Dentists Act on 19 March 2026 changes where a complaint goes but not the rules you are judged by, and fill in a one-page chart of those bodies for your own practice.Open first
02What your degree lets you doYou will be able to read the new definition of dentistry against seven zones of the face, say for each zone what the text supports, what is arguable and what it does not reach, explain what your own degree's syllabus adds and what it does not, and mark your own services on a zone map kept as your own record.20 min
03The routes: degrees, courses, fellowships and working with doctorsYou will be able to compare the routes a dentist can take into facial aesthetic work, say what each one does and does not change in law, tell a recognised qualification from a private course or fellowship, say what you may and may not write after your name, and work out when the right route is to refer the patient to a doctor.20 min
04Setting up: registrations and facilitiesYou will be able to describe the main registrations and authorisations this module covers for a dental clinic offering aesthetic work, work through the Maharashtra example and the questions to ask in any other State, say what the regulators' own guidance expects of a room where procedures beyond the chair are done, and fill in a set-up checklist for your own premises.20 min
05The products: toxin, fillers, boosters and the paper trailYou will be able to say whether each product in your aesthetic work is a drug, a device or a cosmetic, explain what that means for where you buy it, how you store and record it and what you may say about it, recognise the products the law treats as unlicensed whoever uses them, and keep a product register that would answer an inspector's first questions.20 min
06Consent and photographs: what is different for a dentistYou will be able to say what makes a patient's consent real, explain the disclosure a dentist doing facial aesthetic work should make about who is treating her and why, say what a signed form can and cannot do, apply the dental rules on confidentiality and publicity to patient photographs, and describe the data protection position of a dental clinic, including what is not yet settled.20 min
07Telling the public: titles, posts and claimsYou will be able to say what a dentist may and may not say about herself and her facial aesthetic work, test a title or abbreviation against the dental Code, apply the social media advisory of October 2026 to your own posts, recognise a misleading advertisement and an endorsement under consumer law, and say where the law is not yet settled.20 min
08When it goes wrong: complaints, commissions and the criminal lawYou will be able to name the routes a patient can take after a facial aesthetic complication, say what each route asks of the dentist, explain why the scope question from Module 2 follows the dentist into each of them, describe the criminal law's threshold and where a dentist stands under section 106 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and list what to keep and what not to do in the first days.20 min
BBonus: the joint face clinic, working with a doctor Bonus, freeYou will be able to say what a doctor's presence or supervision does and does not change for a dentist's own act, recognise the fee and referral arrangements the codes treat as unethical, test a joint clinic's titles and advertising against both sets of rules, and say what the patient needs to be told about who does what.Free bonus · 14 min
About the bonus module
The bonus module is included and costs nothing extra. Many dentists who do facial aesthetic work do it alongside a dermatologist or a plastic surgeon. The module sets out what a doctor's presence or supervision does and does not change for your own act, the fee and referral arrangements the codes treat as unethical, how a joint clinic's titles and advertising are tested against both sets of rules, and what the patient needs to be told about who does what. It ends with a worked case drill on one fictional clinic. 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.
