CDA accomplished and advanced major priorities in 2025 with the help of CDA members and dental professionals.
When the office manager and doctor lead as aligned partners, the team stays motivated and the practice grows with purpose.
CDA analysts provide guidance for dentists who would like to have more patients on their schedules.
The CDA Journal is simplifying how dental professionals and the broader audience find, read and understand emerging research.
Dentists in California will have to comply with new and amended employment laws and a new privacy protection law in 2026. CDA’s analysts summarize the laws and offer resources to assist compliance.
Patient dissatisfaction, complicated insurance regulations and strict requirements make surcharging a potentially risky strategy for dental practices.
“By leading with empathy and building spaces for vulnerability, we strengthen our entire profession.”
FDA’s action is not an outright ban on fluoridated prescription products, and state and national oral health organizations continue to recommend them as safe and effective.
CDA is urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to consider exemptions to the new $100,000 fee for H-1B petitions from nonprofit and public health care employers, including dental schools and federally qualified health centers.
Each month, CDA highlights a student from one of California’s seven dental schools. Get to know Brendon Lowder of the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry’s class of 2026.
CDA’s resource library, along with phone and email guidance from specialized analysts, provides valuable support for each step of adding an associate.
CDA’s employment practices analyst answers member dentists’ questions about the laws on holiday pay.
