How Dentovio Builds and Verifies Its Florida Laws and Rules Content

Every material claim on Dentovio's Florida Dental Laws and Rules Exam pages — covering both the FDLR (dentist) and the FHLR (hygienist) — traces to a live primary source, and this page states exactly how that works.

The sources we treat as controlling

Florida Statutes at Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us) — the published text of Chapter 466 (the Dental Practice Act) and Chapter 456 (general health-professions law). We cite section text, not summaries of it.
The Florida Administrative Code at flrules.org — the current compiled text of Division 64B5, the Board of Dentistry's rules, read from each rule's own page (for example 64B5-2.013 and 64B5-2.0135, the examination rules).
The exam vendor's live publications — the ADEX/CDCA Florida Laws and Rules page and the 2026 ADEX Candidate Guide, which control exam mechanics: item counts, time, fees, delivery, and scope.
The Florida Board of Dentistry's licensing pages (floridasdentistry.gov) for application and pathway mechanics.

Where an official document is a frozen snapshot — the Board's Laws and Rules Booklet is a July 2023 compilation, and the 2019 candidate booklet is retired — we use it only to confirm scope, never as a citation for current law. The full source list, with one row per statute, rule, and publication, is on the Florida source registry page.

Original items only

Every practice question Dentovio publishes for these exams is original exam-style material written from the statutes and rules themselves. We do not use, reconstruct, or accept recalled exam content — and Florida law backs that policy with a criminal statute: under s. 456.018, F.S., theft or reproduction of a department-administered examination, in part or in whole and by any means, is a third-degree felony. Prep built on "real questions" is prep built on a felony.

Review state — stated honestly

This Florida content was drafted with AI assistance, and every rule on it was verified against the primary sources named above. It is pending credentialed review: no reviewer has signed off on the Florida tree yet, no reviewer name appears on any Florida page, and none will until a qualified professional has reviewed the exact content state. We show a "Last verified" date on every page, and it means the date the content was checked against primary sources — never a claim of professional review. When credentialed review completes, the pages will say so by name; until then, they say this instead.

Freshness discipline

Florida's dental rules move. The examination rules 64B5-2.013 and 64B5-2.0135 were amended effective June 1, 2026; the MOBILE endorsement rule 64B5-2.0141 was adopted in December 2024 and amended twice in 2025; the discipline guideline rules in chapter 64B5-13 were amended in 2024 and again effective January 1, 2026. We monitor the rule-history lines on flrules.org and the vendor's published exam mechanics, and we publish dated correction notes at /what-changed when a change affects candidates. Two dates appear in our workflow with different meanings: last checked advances whenever content is compared against sources; last verified advances only after substantive verification of the content itself.

The no-pass-rate policy

Florida publishes no pass rate for the FDLR or the FHLR. Dentovio therefore states none, estimates none, and treats any specific figure found elsewhere as unsourced. We describe difficulty only from the published structure: closed book, a 75% mark, 90 minutes, and delegation and supervision rules dense enough to punish guessing. For the same reason we make no outcome claims about our own materials.

Public vs. paid boundaries

Public pages in this cluster carry the exam facts, the traps, the glossary, and the study framework, each with its citations. The paid FDLR and FHLR study systems add the structured module walkthroughs, question banks, scenario drills, and timed practice — built from the same registry of primary sources and held to the same review gates.