Michigan dental board
Michigan Board of Dentistry (Dept. of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs / LARA) is the official dental board source Dentovio links for Michigan. Use the board link for final licensure decisions, and use Dentovio's independent page to jump to Michigan CE requirements, renewal notes, and foreign-trained dentist pathway references. CE snapshot: Dentists: 60 hours / 3 years; hygienists: 36 hours / 3 years.
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Michigan Board of Dentistry (Dept. of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs / LARA)
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Registered Dental Assistants (RDA): 36 hours / 3 years, same structure as hygienists — 2 hrs pain/symptom management, 1 hr ethics & jurisprudence (incl. delegation to allied personnel), 1 hr infection control, one-time 1-hr human trafficking; ~12 of 36 in credential-specific courses; implicit bias training (1 hr per license-year, additional to the 36); must maintain BLS/CPR. Up to 18 of 36 hrs may be asynchronous/online.
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CODA post-degree/advanced clinical pathway accepted — a foreign (non-CODA) dentist does NOT have to repeat a full DDS. Michigan (Admin. Rule 650 / R 338.11xxx, 'Graduates of foreign dental schools') requires a graduate of a non-CODA foreign dental school to complete EITHER (a) a minimum of 2 years / 2,850 clock hours of clinical training at a CODA-accredited U.S. or Canadian dental program (an 'advanced standing' program, offered e.g. at Univ. of Detroit Mercy and Univ. of Michigan), OR (b) a minimum 2-year master's degree or certificate program in a CODA-accredited specialty branch of dentistry. This is a 2-year advanced-standing/postdoctoral requirement rather than a full 4-year DDS repeat.
References
- https://www.michigan.gov/lara/bureau-list/bpl/health/hp-lic-health-prof/dentistry
- https://www.michigandental.org/ce-courses/ce-requirements/
- https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/lara/about/Skilled-Immigrants/2019-career-pathway-DENTIST.pdf
- https://www.michigan.gov/lara/-/media/Project/Websites/lara/bpl/Dentistry/Licensing-Info-and-Forms/Info/Dentistry-Licensing-Guide.pdf
- https://www.ada.org/~/media/Project/ADA%20Organization/ADA/ADA-org/Files/Education/Licensure%20by%20State/Michigan_Licensure
- https://dent.umich.edu/education/internationally-trained-dentist-program-itdp