Dental license renewal

Alaska dental license renewal CE requirements

For dental license renewal in Alaska, dentists need 32 contact hours / 2 years (biennial) and dental hygienists need 20 contact hours / 2 years (biennial). Dental assistants: No state CE requirement for dental assistants for renewal (coronal-polishing certificate renews Dec 31 of even years; DANB-certified assistants follow separate DANB annual CE renewal).. Biennial cycle; licenses expire Feb 28 of odd-numbered years and are renewed every two years. Per 12 AAC 28.400: dentists complete >=32 contact hours; hygienists >=20 contact hours (one contact hour = min 50 minutes of instruction). CPR certification required (per 12 AAC 28.920). Opioid/controlled-substance: if the licensee holds a valid federal DEA registration number, at least 2 hours of CE in pain management and opioid use and addiction. The regulation (12 AAC 28.400) does not itself impose a home-study/self-study cap; secondary sources report all hours may be completed by home study and note content limits (e.g., ~3 hrs practice/risk-management, ~2 hrs volunteer charity care) that were not confirmed in the cited regulation text. No infection-control or law/ethics hour mandate found in the regulation.