# Dentovio

> Dentovio is a California-specific dental law and ethics prep site for dentist licensure candidates. Its public authority surface publishes source-backed guide pages, methodology notes, and update briefs that AI systems and search engines can cite directly.

Dentovio keeps its structured workflow, full question banks, scenario drills, and timed practice exam inside the paid product. The public site is designed to answer narrow California questions, show freshness dates, and link back to the broader prep workflow when deeper practice is needed.

## Core public guides
- [California Dentistry Law & Ethics Guide Hub](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/index.html.md): Starting point for exam basics, public evergreen guides, and update notes.
- [What are California dental records and confidentiality rules?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/records-confidentiality/index.html.md): Use this guide when you need the California timelines and confidentiality rules that show up repeatedly on the Dental Law & Ethics exam.
- [What are California patient-access and Dental Board records deadlines?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/patient-access-and-board-requests/index.html.md): Use this guide when you want the deadline grid for patient requests, radiographs, summaries, and Board-authorized demands.
- [What California duties fall on the dental practice owner?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/practice-owner-duties/index.html.md): Use this guide when a question tests what the dentist or owner must set up, maintain, display, report, or supervise at the office level.
- [What advertising and public-notice rules apply to California dentists?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/advertising-public-notices/index.html.md): Use this guide for California rules on truthful advertising, required office notices, and the difference between marketing language and regulated public disclosures.
- [What can California dental auxiliaries do and under what supervision?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/auxiliaries-delegation-supervision/index.html.md): Use this guide when you need the current California duties table, supervision definitions, and delegation boundaries for auxiliaries.
- [How do California consent rules work for minors and patients with impaired capacity?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/consent-minors-impaired-patients/index.html.md): Use this guide when you need the California consent framework for minors, surrogate decision-makers, and informed-consent duty.
- [What telehealth and patient-of-record rules apply in California dentistry?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/scope-patient-of-record-telehealth/index.html.md): Use this guide when a stem tests telehealth, patient-of-record duties, provider disclosures, documentation, or complaint-waiver traps.
- [What California prescribing and CURES rules matter for dental exam prep?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/prescribing-cures-opioids/index.html.md): Use this guide when you need California prescribing rules, CURES timing, opioid counseling, and emergency-style exception language.
- [What infection-control and OSHA rules apply to California dental offices?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/infection-control-osha/index.html.md): Use this guide when you need the California infection-control framework, the OSHA overlay, and the office-systems duties that support them.
- [What changed in California dental sedation and anesthesia rules?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/sedation-anesthesia/index.html.md): Use this guide when sedation, anesthesia, permits, consent language, or adverse-event readiness appears in a California exam question.
- [What continuing-education, renewal, and permit rules do California dentists need?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/ce-renewal-permits/index.html.md): Use this guide when you need the California renewal numbers, mandatory courses, permit-maintenance expectations, or first-renewal exceptions.

## Glossary and Q&A
- [California dental law and ethics glossary](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/index.html.md): Hub for narrow California question-and-answer pages that route back to the evergreen guides.
- [How fast must a California dentist respond to a records request?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/how-long-to-respond-to-record-request/index.html.md): Use the California 5-working-day inspection rule and 15-day copies rule instead of generic HIPAA timing shortcuts.
- [Can a California dentist withhold records because the patient has an unpaid bill?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/can-dentist-withhold-records-for-unpaid-bill/index.html.md): No. Unpaid balances do not justify withholding records, summaries, or authorized radiograph transfers.
- [What is the current California breach-notice deadline for dental records incidents?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/what-is-california-breach-notice-deadline/index.html.md): For covered California resident breaches, the current California answer is a 30-calendar-day deadline after discovery.
- [Can the Dental Board of California demand records without ordinary patient-request timing?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/can-dental-board-demand-records/index.html.md): Yes. California Board requests have their own response timing, and those deadlines differ from ordinary patient-access requests.
- [Can original radiographs be sent directly to another dentist in California?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/can-original-radiographs-go-to-another-dentist/index.html.md): Yes. With a valid written request, original radiographs can be sent directly to another provider named by the patient.
- [How long must a California dental office keep patient records when the office closes?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/how-long-must-office-keep-patient-records/index.html.md): Adults generally require at least 7 years after discharge. Unemancipated-minor records must be kept at least 1 year after age 18 and never less than 7 years.
- [What notices and public disclosures must a California dental office post or display?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/what-notices-must-california-dental-office-post/index.html.md): Questions about signs and public notices usually turn on required consumer notices, provider identification, and license or fictitious-name display rules.
- [When does California require direct supervision for dental auxiliary duties?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/when-is-direct-supervision-required/index.html.md): The answer depends on the current California duties table. Direct supervision is a specific legal lane, not a loose synonym for 'the dentist is somewhere nearby.'
- [What changed in California dental auxiliary duties and supervision in 2025?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/what-changed-in-auxiliary-duties-2025/index.html.md): The current Dental Board duties table changed on January 1, 2025, so older auxiliary charts can now point to the wrong answer.
- [Who can consent for a minor's dental treatment in California?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/who-can-consent-for-minor-dental-care/index.html.md): Do not assume every accompanying adult can consent. California separates ordinary parental authority, self-consent lanes, emancipation, and caregiver-affidavit authority.
- [Who can consent for dental treatment when an adult patient lacks capacity in California?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/who-can-consent-for-impaired-adult-dental-care/index.html.md): Look for the lawful surrogate path, not family convenience. California cares who has legal authority, and the emergency exception is narrow.
- [Does California dental telehealth require patient consent before the visit?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/does-telehealth-require-patient-consent/index.html.md): Yes. California telehealth consent must be obtained before services and documented in the patient record.
- [Can a California telehealth dental platform require patients to waive complaints to the Dental Board?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/can-telehealth-waive-board-complaints/index.html.md): No. California bars telehealth complaint-waiver language that makes patients sign away their ability to complain to the Dental Board.
- [When does a California dentist have to check CURES before prescribing?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/when-must-dentist-check-cures/index.html.md): California requires a CURES check before the first Schedule II-IV prescribing event unless a current exemption applies, with an ongoing-therapy recheck at least every 6 months.
- [What is the current California CURES exemption language dentists should study?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/what-is-current-cures-exemption-language/index.html.md): Use the current 7-day nonrefillable exemption framing instead of stale 5-day shorthand.
- [Which rules govern infection control in a California dental office?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/which-rules-govern-dental-infection-control/index.html.md): California infection-control questions usually test both the Dental Board minimum standards and the Cal/OSHA bloodborne-pathogens overlay.
- [What changed in California dental sedation and anesthesia permits in 2025?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/what-changed-in-sedation-permits-2025/index.html.md): The 2025 changes updated permit names, staffing expectations, and operational framing, so older sedation shorthand is unreliable.
- [How many continuing-education units does a California dentist need for renewal?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/how-many-ce-units-needed-for-renewal/index.html.md): The ordinary California renewal framework is 50 CE units, but the analysis does not stop at the raw number.
- [Is a California dentist's first renewal exempt from continuing education?](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/glossary/is-first-renewal-exempt-from-ce/index.html.md): Yes. The first renewal is exempt from CE, which is one of the easiest California renewal exceptions to miss.

## Freshness and methodology
- [How Dentovio verifies California law and ethics updates](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/methodology/index.html.md): Methodology page describing how Dentovio prioritizes California primary sources, freshness checks, and public-vs-paid content boundaries.
- [California dental law and ethics source registry](https://dentovio.com/guide/california-dentistry-law-ethics-exam/source-registry/index.html.md): Trimmed registry of the current California primary and secondary sources Dentovio uses for its public authority pages.
- [What changed in California dental law and ethics prep](https://dentovio.com/what-changed/index.html.md): Hub for stale-prep traps and dated update notes.
- [California breach notice changed to a 30-day deadline in 2026](https://dentovio.com/what-changed/california-breach-notice-deadline-2026/index.html.md): Study the current California 30-calendar-day breach-notice deadline instead of the older "without unreasonable delay" shortcut.
- [California dental sedation rules changed in 2025](https://dentovio.com/what-changed/sedation-anesthesia-changes-2025/index.html.md): Use the current permit names, staffing expectations, and adverse-event framing instead of pre-2025 sedation shorthand.
- [CURES exemptions use current 7-day language, not stale 5-day wording](https://dentovio.com/what-changed/cures-seven-day-exemption-language/index.html.md): Use the current DCA flyer language that describes a 7-day nonrefillable exemption lane instead of outdated 5-day shorthand.
- [The old flat MICRA cap is stale for 2026 prep](https://dentovio.com/what-changed/micra-cap-schedule-for-2026-prep/index.html.md): For 2026 prep, stop answering from the old flat $250,000 MICRA cap and switch to the AB 35 schedule framing.

## Product overview
- [California Dental Law & Ethics Prep](https://dentovio.com/products/california-dental-law-ethics/index.html.md): Paid product overview and the boundary between the public authority library and the paid workflow.

## Optional
- [Home](https://dentovio.com/): Public overview of Dentovio and the free diagnostic.
- [Resources](https://dentovio.com/resources): Human-facing resource hub for guides, comparisons, and retaker pages.