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Adding an associate to your practice? 4 steps CDA analysts recommend

CDA’s resource library, along with phone and email guidance from specialized analysts, provides valuable support for each step of adding an associate.

November 4, 2025 |Dental Benefit Plans, Employment Practices, Leadership and Practice Ownership, Practice Management

Holiday pay in California: The law and best practices for dentists

CDA’s employment practices analyst answers member dentists’ questions about the laws on holiday pay.

November 3, 2025 |Laws & Regulations, Office Policies & Manuals

Edgardo de la Vega, DDS, recognized for service in the Philippines with 2025 CDA Foundation Humanitarian Award

“His contribution in dentistry is unparalleled, [and] his extraordinary humanitarian services and volunteerism have set a high standard for others to follow.”

October 29, 2025 |CDA Foundation

To my CDA family: Dr. Max Martinez discusses CDA’s dental plan reform efforts in video address

With 11 impactful bills signed into law in recent years and more initiatives underway, we have remarkable momentum.

October 27, 2025 |Advocacy, Dental Plan Reform

How 11 CDA-sponsored dental plan reform laws benefit dentists and patients

Dental plan reform continues to lead CDA’s advocacy agenda with another successful CDA-sponsored bill that will benefit California dentists and their patients.

October 21, 2025 |Dental Benefit Plans, Dental Plan Reform, Legislation

Forward motion: New dental research merges science, tech and patient care

What do TMD and mental health, probiotics and oral thrush, and artificial intelligence and clinical decision-making have in common? These…

October 20, 2025 |Online Learning, Patient Care

More advocacy wins: New CDA-sponsored law protects against private equity interference

The new law bars the specific ways private equity groups and hedge funds are influencing dentists’ and physicians’ professional judgement.

October 8, 2025 |Legislation, Patient Management

Webb Family Grant recipient Kelsey Sloane, DDS, cares for the underserved in her rural hometown

Article edited on 10/17/25 to update biographical information. Kelsey Sloane, DDS, has received the CDA Foundation’s Webb Family Grant for…

October 8, 2025 |CDA Foundation, Early Career Dentists, Public Health

Governor signs CDA-sponsored bill protecting dentists from virtual credit cards

Read why “Getting SB 386 signed into law is a huge victory for California dentists, who have contended too long with the predatory use of VCCs.”

October 3, 2025 |Dental Plan Reform, Legislation

UCLA student shares tips for adjusting to dental school, overcoming imposter syndrome

Each month, CDA highlights a student from one of California’s seven dental schools. Get to know Zeel Patel of UCLA’s class of 2028.

October 3, 2025 |Students

CDA urges use of RHTP funds to support mobile dental clinics, implement Medicare dental coverage more effectively

CDA continues to advocate at the federal and state levels for investments to improve the profession of dentistry and bolster oral health care in California.

October 2, 2025 |Access to Care, Public Health

Court decides CDA’s appeal in lawsuit against Delta Dental of California

The California Court of Appeal has decided CDA’s appeal of the Superior Court ruling in CDA’s lawsuit against Delta Dental of California.

October 1, 2025 |Delta Dental, Dental Plan Reform
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