Dental Practice Guidelines: United States and Canada (A working link list of clinical practice guidelines, standards of practice, and position statements, organized by specialty and by clinical topics-August 2026).
Nova Scotia Regulator of Dentistry and Dental Assisting Links are the provincial regulator guidelines.
A note: The US and Canada regulate organized dentistry differently. In the US, the ADA and the twelve specialty sponsoring organizations publish most clinical guidance nationally. In Canada, the CDA issues position statements rather than formal CPGs, and the binding clinical documents (sedation, opioids, infection control, recordkeeping) lie with the provincial regulators. RCDC describes nine recognized specialties plus Dental Sciences.CDA- 10 specialties.