PCDS 2026 CE Course Events

Federal and state laws significantly impact dental practices by ensuring accurate billing practices, ethical marketing efforts, and compliant business structures. Failure to abide by these laws can result in fines, disciplinary actions, civil lawsuits, and even criminal sanctions. This course will use real world case studies to offer dentists and their staff tools to protect their practice, patients, and professional licesnes from legal and financial risks associated with applicable fraud, waste, and abuse laws.

A moderated discussion with two Pennsylvania Barred Attorneys focusing on common legal and regulatory issues that face dental offices. The speakers will use their experience of representing dental and other healthcare practices to educate participants on the legal challenges that dental practices face on a regular basis. The course will address a broad variety of topics, such as patient privacy, federal and state employment laws, ethical challenges and payor reimbursement issues. The discussion will also focus on best practices that can be implemented at any dental practice to mitigate the common legal risks discussed during the course.

This course will serve as an introduction into key ethical principles and standards of conduct that govern the practice of dentistry. The course will be structured around the American Dental Association Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct, and discuss in detail the topics of patient autonomy, nommaleficence, beneficence, fairness and truthfulness. The course will also discuss the interactions between the ADA Code of Ethics with laws that apply to the practice of dentistry. The course is designed to offer dentists and their staff common ethical quandaries that they may face, and tools to help resolve these problematic situations.

Presented in cooperation with Catapult Education. Decades of studies have shown that using traditional diagnostics in dentistry is like flipping a coin. We need to determine the patient's risk factors for caries and periodontal disease.

Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting for Dental Professionals will fulfill the Act 31 CE requirements for dentists, hygienists and EFDAs renewing a dental license in March 2027. Attendees may register to attend just the Act 31 course or register for the full day CE that includes the lectures on Act 124 and Adverse Drug Interactions.