Illinois dental CE requirements
Continuing education for license renewal in Illinois, by role. Confirm current rules with the board before you rely on them.
Dental assistant
No state CE requirement (Illinois dental assistants are not separately licensed with CE obligations)
Role pageRenewal cycle & mandatory topics
Triennial (3-year) renewal period; CE not required for the first renewal cycle after original license issuance. Correspondence/self-study cap: no more than 50% of required hours may be correspondence (on-demand webinar/journal); live webinars count as in-person. Mandatory each cycle: 1 hr sexual harassment prevention; 1 hr implicit bias awareness (effective 2024). BLS/CPR current certification required; counts for max 4 hrs/period. Opioid: 3 hrs safe-opioid-prescribing for Illinois Controlled Substances registrants; separately, DEA registrants owe the federal MATE Act 8-hr training. Mandated-reporter training every 6 years for those working with children. Dentists holding sedation Permit A/B need 9 of the 48 hours in sedation techniques. Verify current per-cycle mandates against IDFPR, as state add-on courses change.
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Dentist requirement — Illinois
48 hours / 3 years (triennial licensing period)
48 hours to go
0 of 48 toward this cycle (best-effort parse — confirm exact rules with the board).
Cycle & mandatory topics
Triennial (3-year) renewal period; CE not required for the first renewal cycle after original license issuance. Correspondence/self-study cap: no more than 50% of required hours may be correspondence (on-demand webinar/journal); live webinars count as in-person. Mandatory each cycle: 1 hr sexual harassment prevention; 1 hr implicit bias awareness (effective 2024). BLS/CPR current certification required; counts for max 4 hrs/period. Opioid: 3 hrs safe-opioid-prescribing for Illinois Controlled Substances registrants; separately, DEA registrants owe the federal MATE Act 8-hr training. Mandated-reporter training every 6 years for those working with children. Dentists holding sedation Permit A/B need 9 of the 48 hours in sedation techniques. Verify current per-cycle mandates against IDFPR, as state add-on courses change.