2025 Courses and Events

Course #: 3190
Date: 11/30/2025
Time: 8:30am - 10:30am
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Margaret Surowka, JD

Topic: Ethics
Tuition: $100.00
Credits: 2
AGD Number: 564 – New York Ethics and Juri
Recommended For:
Dentists, Hygienists, Students, Educator

Description:

This program utilizes real-life examples, OPD discipline cases, and opinions rendered by the New York State Dental Association’s Ethics Council through- out the program as “real-life” applications and relevance to the everyday practice of dentistry.

Included are the Laws of New York Applicable to Dentistry and the Dental Practice Act; Miscellaneous Laws and Regulations; and the Ethics of and the Professional Responsibility for Practicing Dentistry in New York.

Learn:
The Dental Practice Act:

• scope of practice for dentists
• scope of practice for hygienists
• scope of practice of certified and non-certified dental assistants
• supervision of all auxiliaries
• Dental Anesthesia Certificate
• special provisions of §6611
• nitrous oxide equipment

Miscellaneous Laws and Regulations:

• access to patient records, HIV, and confidentiality
• federal Controlled Substances Law
• X-ray requirements
• child abuse, communicable diseases, patient deaths
• amalgam and other recycling regulations
• employee notices

What dental offices need to do to follow state law, and the rules of professional/ethical responsibility.