Pennsylvania dental board
Pennsylvania State Board of Dentistry is the official dental board source Dentovio links for Pennsylvania. Use the board link for final licensure decisions, and use Dentovio's independent page to jump to Pennsylvania CE requirements, renewal notes, and foreign-trained dentist pathway references. CE snapshot: Dentists: 30 hours / 2 years (biennial); hygienists: 20 hours / 2 years (Public Health Dental Hygiene Practitioner also 20 hrs, of which 5 must be public-health related).
CE source
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20 hours / 2 years (Public Health Dental Hygiene Practitioner also 20 hrs, of which 5 must be public-health related)
Hygienist CE pageAssistant CE
Expanded Function Dental Assistants (EFDAs): 10 hours / 2 years (of which 3 hours must be in coronal polishing, with limited exemptions). Non-EFDA dental assistants are not separately licensed and have no state CE requirement.
Assistant CE pageForeign-trained dentist pathway
Advanced-standing CODA DMD/DDS only. A candidate educated outside the U.S. at a nonaccredited (non-CODA) school must submit credentials to a CODA-accredited (or provisionally accredited) dental school and obtain additional preclinical and clinical training leading to the award of a D.M.D. or D.D.S. degree by that school (49 Pa. Code 33.102(a)(2)). A CODA GPR/AEGD residency alone does NOT satisfy the education requirement.
References
- https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dos/department-and-offices/bpoa/boards-commissions/dentistry
- https://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pacode?file=/secure/pacode/data/049/chapter33/subchapFtoc.html&d=reduce
- https://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pacode?file=%2Fsecure%2Fpacode%2Fdata%2F049%2Fchapter33%2Fs33.402.html&d=reduce
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/pennsylvania/49-Pa-Code-SS-33-402
- https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/dos/department-and-offices/bpoa/dental/Dental-Renewal-Guide.pdf
- https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dos/department-and-offices/bpoa/boards-commissions/dentistry/dentist-licensure-snapshot
- https://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pacode?file=/secure/pacode/data/049/chapter33/subchapBtoc.html&d=reduce
- https://www.ada.org/~/media/Project/ADA%20Organization/ADA/ADA-org/Files/Education/Licensure%20by%20State/Pennsylvania_Licensure