This guide covers dental practice regulation from licensure and scope through records, billing, malpractice, board discipline, and practice transitions. It begins with the regulatory map — the board, the radiation program, the workplace safety agency, health privacy regulators, program integrity authorities, and drug enforcement — and explains why a dental office is six compliance programs sharing a waiting room. It treats scope of practice and delegation as the largest source of routine discipline, sets out the corporate practice doctrine and how dental service organizations are structured around it, and identifies where those structures fail. It works through informed consent under both the professional and patient-centered standards, the clinical areas that generate disproportionate claims, and the records that decide them. It covers billing and coding exposure including the documentation-driven patterns behind most dental fraud cases, prescribing, infection control and sterilization failures, radiation, accessibility, and employment. Separate parts address pediatric dentistry, board complaint response, practice sale and closure, advertising, and emerging questions in teledentistry and workforce expansion.