Consumer Protection Act (CPA) is applicable on all hospitals who are charging from the patients. Lot of allegations are coming to the courts nowadays alleging negligence on the part of the doctors. Further, the investigating agency may require any documents pertaining to treatment of the patients. In such a scenario, it is important to keep the dental records updated. Dental records become the important document. Medico legal aspects of dental records have been discussed in the present paper.

Keywords Dental records, update.