{"id":919,"date":"2020-06-12T15:13:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/?page_id=919"},"modified":"2023-11-21T12:10:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T17:10:33","slug":"dentistry-and-the-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/practice-resources\/legal-services\/dentistry-and-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Dentistry and the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1698696973333{margin-top: -40px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;background-color: #009ba7 !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;white-text&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>Dentistry and the law<\/h1>\n<p><nav  aria-label=\"breadcrumb\"><ol class=\"breadcrumb\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BreadcrumbList\"><li class=\"breadcrumb-item active\" aria-current=\"page\" itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Home<\/span><meta itemprop=\"position\" content=\"1\"><\/li><\/ol><\/nav>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Welcome to the MDA dentistry and the law archive of legal questions and answers. This section contains a wide range of useful legal information on many facets of dental practice. The questions and answers in this section have all been compiled from the MDA <em>Journal\u2019s <\/em>\u201cDentistry and the Law\u201d column, which appears every month.<\/p>\n<p>How to use this archive: Legal information is organized by the categories listed below. Click on a category, such as \u201cBilling issues,\u201d and you\u2019ll see a number of Q&amp;A articles under that category. In addition, each article contains topic tags. Clicking on a topic tag will filter all articles associated with that tag, making it easy to find related articles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE: The columns that appear on these pages are the opinion of the author and do not constitute legal advice from the Michigan Dental Association.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also check out the MDA\u2019s <a href=\"\/Legal-Questions-eBook\"><em>Most-Asked Legal Questions<\/em><\/a> ebook, for guidance on a variety of legal issues, and <a href=\"https:\/\/store.michigandental.org\/product-category\/practice-resources\/legal-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Dentist&#8217;s Guide to Michigan Law<\/em><\/a>, which contains all of the applicable laws,\u00a0 reference codes, and legal citations affecting dentists. which are arranged in 57 subject headings.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"children\">\n<li><a href=\"\/practice-management\/legal-services\/dentistry-and-the-law\/antitrust-issues\/\">Antitrust issues<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/practice-management\/legal-services\/dentistry-and-the-law\/billing-issues\/\">Billing issues<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/practice-management\/legal-services\/dentistry-and-the-law\/dealing-with-dental-insurers\/\">Dealing with dental insurers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/practice-management\/legal-services\/dentistry-and-the-law\/dental-records\/\">Dental records<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/practice-management\/legal-services\/dentistry-and-the-law\/employee-issues\/\">Employee issues<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/practice-management\/legal-services\/dentistry-and-the-law\/insurance\/\">Insurance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/practice-management\/legal-services\/dentistry-and-the-law\/licensure-and-regulation\/\">Licensure and regulation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/practice-management\/legal-services\/dentistry-and-the-law\/managed-care\/\">Managed care<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/practice-management\/legal-services\/dentistry-and-the-law\/practice-operations\/\">Practice operations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/practice-management\/legal-services\/dentistry-and-the-law\/treatment-issues\/\">Treatment issues<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1698696973333{margin-top: -40px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;background-color: #009ba7 !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;white-text&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text] Dentistry and the law [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Welcome to the MDA dentistry and the law archive of legal questions and answers. This section contains a wide range of useful legal information on many facets of dental practice. The questions and answers in this section have all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":241,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","protect_children":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-919","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-11-17 08:53:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/919\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}