Whose responsibility is it to follow dental laws in my state? Yours, fully and without exception. No training program, mine included, can possibly know the rules of every state and province. The regulations on how you present treatment, advertise, finance cases, and run consultations differ from place to place, and they change. So when you take general principles and apply them, you are the one who has to check that what you are doing meshes with your own jurisdiction. If something in a teaching does not fit your state's laws, that is on you to catch and adjust before you act [...]