Minnesota dental board
Minnesota Board of Dentistry is the official dental board source Dentovio links for Minnesota. Use the board link for final licensure decisions, and use Dentovio's independent page to jump to Minnesota CE requirements, renewal notes, and foreign-trained dentist pathway references. CE snapshot: Dentists: 50 hours / 2 years; hygienists: 25 hours / 2 years.
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Licensed Dental Assistants: 25 hours / 2 years (min 15 fundamental, max 10 elective) — same as hygienists. Dental therapists follow the 50-hr dentist track.
Assistant CE pageForeign-trained dentist pathway
Foreign-training EQUIVALENCY pathway — a full CODA advanced-standing DDS/DMD is NOT strictly required. Minn. Stat. §150A.06 Subd. 1 provides that a graduate of a dental college in another country 'must not be disqualified from examination solely because of the applicant's foreign training if the board determines that the training is equivalent to or higher than' a CODA-accredited dental college. Such an applicant may then sit the licensure exams (national board + clinical) and obtain a general dentist license. Foreign grads may also complete a U.S. CODA advanced-standing program (e.g., Univ. of Minnesota PASS) or a CODA specialty program. NOTE: The separate clinical-exam WAIVER for a completed CODA GPR/AEGD (Subd. 3(b) and PGY-1 waiver under Subd. 3b) is expressly limited to graduates of a CODA-accredited dental SCHOOL, so that residency clinical-waiver does not by itself cover a non-CODA foreign grad.
References
- https://mn.gov/boards/dentistry/
- https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/3100.5100/
- https://mn.gov/boards/dentistry/new-applicant/
- https://mn.gov/boards/dentistry/new-applicant/limited-general/index.jsp
- https://www.ada.org/~/media/Project/ADA%20Organization/ADA/ADA-org/Files/Education/Licensure%20by%20State/Minnesota_Licensure