Florida dental board
Florida Board of Dentistry (Florida Department of Health) is the official dental board source Dentovio links for Florida. Use the board link for final licensure decisions, and use Dentovio's independent page to jump to Florida CE requirements, renewal notes, and foreign-trained dentist pathway references. CE snapshot: Dentists: 30 hours / 2 years (biennium); hygienists: 24 hours / 2 years (biennium).
CE source
Dentovio uses this board or renewal source for the Florida CE summary.
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No CE requirement — Florida does not license or register dental assistants generally, and no CE is required (radiography/expanded-function certificates are training-based, not CE-hour based)
Assistant CE pageForeign-trained dentist pathway
Advanced-standing / supplemental CODA program required — NOT a residency pathway. Under s. 466.006, Fla. Stat., a graduate of a non-CODA (foreign) dental school must complete at least 2 consecutive academic years of full-time study in a CODA-accredited supplemental general dentistry program that provides didactic and clinical education at the DDS/DMD level. The statute expressly excludes advanced education programs in a dental specialty, and experience gained under a teaching/residency permit does NOT count toward this requirement — so a GPR/AEGD or specialty residency is NOT an accepted substitute.
References
- https://floridasdentistry.gov/dentist/
- https://floridasdentistry.gov/dentist-renewal/
- https://floridasdentistry.gov/dental-hygienist-renewal/
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/florida/Fla-Admin-Code-Ann-R-64B5-12-013
- https://florida.public.law/statutes/fla._stat._466.014
- https://www.flsenate.gov/laws/statutes/2023/466.006
- https://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0400-0499%2F0466%2F0466.html
- https://floridasdentistry.gov/Applications/dentistry-licensure-app.pdf