Florida Dental Laws & Rules Exam (Dentists)

Up to 67 multiple-choice items — including up to 5 unscored field-test items — in 90 minutes, computer-based at Prometric test centers. The exam is closed book: no statute or rule text is provided or permitted.

75% or higher. Results are pass/fail only — a provisional result on screen at completion, with the official result posted in 2-3 business days. No numeric score breakdown is published.

$135 per attempt — the initial sitting and each retake cost the same full fee. Registration credits expire 2 years from payment, and no attempt limit is published in the rules or the Candidate Guide.

Every pathway to a Florida dental license requires it: licensure by examination, the MOBILE endorsement pathway for licensed out-of-state dentists (s. 456.0145, F.S., and rule 64B5-2.0141, F.A.C.), and the health access dental license (s. 466.0067, F.S.). Florida has no general reciprocity, so relocating dentists sit this exam too.

Three bodies of law: Chapter 456, Florida Statutes (general health-professions regulation), Chapter 466, Florida Statutes (the Dental Practice Act), and Division 64B5 of the Florida Administrative Code (the Board of Dentistry's rules). Chapter 64B27 appeared only in the legacy 2019 booklet and is not in the live scope.

No. The 18-month completion window in the 2026 ADEX Candidate Guide covers the clinical examination parts. The Laws and Rules exams are standalone; the only clock on them is that registration credits expire 2 years from payment.

Florida does not publish a pass rate for this exam, and any specific figure you see elsewhere is unsourced. What is knowable is the structure: closed book, a 75% mark, 90 minutes, and dense delegation and supervision rules — a format that punishes guessing at rule text from memory of another state's law.

That phrase usually mixes two different requirements. This page covers the written Florida Laws and Rules exam (FDLR): closed book, up to 67 items in 90 minutes, with a 75% passing mark under rule 64B5-2.013, F.A.C. The clinical ADEX examination is a separate requirement with its own rules and its own preparation. Florida publishes no difficulty statistics for the FDLR, so judge it by that published format, not by percentages you see elsewhere.

Rule 64B5-2.013, F.A.C., was amended with a current version effective June 1, 2026. The written Laws and Rules examination requirement and the 75% passing mark were unchanged by that amendment — but any prep citing the pre-amendment rule text is citing a superseded version.