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Vermont dental license renewal

For dental license renewal in Vermont, use the official board for filing forms, fees, deadlines, and final instructions. Dentovio summarizes the renewal CE signals: dentists need 30 hours / 2 years; dental hygienists need 18 hours / 2 years; dental assistants: No state CE requirement (dental assistants register but board rules do not impose a specific CE hour count; if DANB-certified, DANB renewal separately requires 12+ CE/year). Renewal-cycle notes: Biennial renewal via VT Office of Professional Regulation. Dentist: 30 hrs every 2 yrs; all may be completed by home/self-study (self-study courses must conclude with an examination to be accepted). A course in emergency office procedures is required as a condition of every biennial renewal for BOTH dentists and hygienists (only one emergency-procedures course may count toward the hour total). Hygienist: 18 hrs every 2 yrs, of which 15 must be in clinical or didactic dental/dental-hygiene subject areas. No CE reporting is required at the first renewal after initial licensure. CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: dentists who prescribe/dispense controlled substances must complete 2 hrs on controlled substances every 2 yrs — this derives from VT's separate opioid/OPR prescriber rule, NOT from the Board of Dental Examiners CE rule (Ch. 080), so treat as MEDIUM confidence and verify on the OPR page. No dedicated infection-control or law/ethics hour mandate found in the board CE rule.