Dental Practice & Licensing

California soon may have a new Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene education program to address the state’s shortage of registered dental hygienists.

“I realize now that instead of responding to coercion on the phone, I should have just hung up or told them I would speak to my attorney before proceeding.”

The dental board alerted licensees about the new fingerprinting process, RDA application requirements and the RDA exam and licensure application.

CDA encourages dentists to review continuing education course requirements to avoid licensure impacts resulting from C.E. audits conducted by the Dental Board of California.

“Do we need another term to describe temporomandibular joint disorders?” asks Sujay A. J. Mehta, DMD, MPH, in his introduction…

Members in attendance asked about and received clarification on licensure of temporary employees, timing of infection control and X-ray courses, permits needed for nitrous oxide, whether assistants should be paid to take additional coursework and other issues.

CDA provides guidance for dentist-employers who must ensure their unlicensed dental assistants complete the dental board-approved eight hour infection control course per the new timeline.

Beginning Jan. 1, 2025, unlicensed dental assistants in California must complete the required eight-hour infection control course prior to exposure to blood and saliva.

Dental licensure and scope changes address key issues for California dentists such as workforce expansion, anesthesia permit qualifications for dentists and infection control standards for dental assistants.

The California Legislature approved a bill to implement provisions CDA sought to address dental licensure, office staffing and other issues.

Dental practice owners are under no obligation to extend credit to patients, and they can require payment at the time…

California-licensed dentists who do not have a fingerprint on record in the dental board’s section of the Department of Consumer…