# Florida Laws and Rules Exam Source Registry > Every statute, rule, and publication cited across Dentovio's Florida Dental Laws and Rules Exam pages (FDLR and FHLR), one row per source, each verified against the live primary text. URL: https://dentovio.com/guide/florida-dental-laws-rules-exam/source-registry Markdown: https://dentovio.com/guide/florida-dental-laws-rules-exam/source-registry/index.html.md Last verified: 2026-07-26 This registry backs the Florida Dental Laws and Rules Exam guide cluster. A-series rows are Chapter 466, Florida Statutes; B-series rows are Chapter 456 and related statutes; C-series rows are Division 64B5, Florida Administrative Code; D-series rows are board, department, and vendor publications. Florida source IDs are never interchangeable with Dentovio's California registries. | ID | Authority level | Topic coverage | Link | Verified | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A1 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Legislative purpose: minimum requirements for safe practice without undue clinical interference by nonlicensees; dental services may not be delegated to unauthorized individuals; chapter liberally construed | | 2026-07-26 | | A2 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Chapter exemptions: physicians; a qualified anesthetist giving an anesthetic under a dentist's direct supervision; military/VA dentists; out-of-state clinicians at board-approved meetings; students and instructors, with the full-time-instructor teaching-permit mechanism | | 2026-07-26 | | A3 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Chapter definitions: dentistry, dental hygiene, dental assistant; direct, indirect, and general supervision; remediable vs. irremediable tasks (administering anesthesia other than topical is irremediable by definition); health access setting; digital scanning | | 2026-07-26 | | A4 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Board composition: 11 members (7 clinical dentists, 2 hygienists, 2 laypersons), 4-year terms capped at 10 total years; Council on Dental Hygiene (must meet at least 3 times a year) and Council on Dental Assisting; rulemaking authority incl. a duplicate-document fee capped at $10 | | 2026-07-26 | | A5 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Expert witness certificate for out-of-state/Canadian dentists: $50 fee, approval within 10 business days, valid 2 years; authorizes expert testimony only, not practice, and is treated as a license for discipline | | 2026-07-26 | | A6 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Dentist licensure examinations: application fee capped at $100; requires "a written examination on the laws and rules of the state regulating the practice of dentistry" plus the ADEX/ADLEX clinical exam; out-of-state ADLEX scores accepted if taken after 10/1/2011, with extra conditions when scores are over 365 days old (incl. 5 years' full-time practice defined as at least 1,200 hours/year); remediation after three clinical failures | | 2026-07-26 | | A7 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Regional licensure exams hosted by Florida dental schools for final-year students, for out-of-state licensure only; mandatory 12-point boldface disclosure that the exam does not meet Florida licensure requirements | | 2026-07-26 | | A8 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Health access dental license for out-of-state dentists practicing only in health access settings: no Florida clinical exam, but requires background screening, 5 years' active clinical practice, and passing the Florida laws-and-rules examination described in s. 466.006(4)(a) | | 2026-07-26 | | A9 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Biennial renewal of the health access dental license: employer documentation of continuous health-access employment, active-licensee CE compliance statement, renewal fee equal to the s. 466.013 fee | | 2026-07-26 | | A10 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Mandatory revocation triggers: termination from the qualifying health access setting, a s. 466.027/466.028 violation, or failing the Florida dental licensure examination; practicing outside health access settings on this license is unlicensed practice | | 2026-07-26 | | A11 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Hygienist licensure examinations: application fee capped at $100 and exam fee at $225; applicant must be 18+, an accredited-program graduate (or dental-school graduate meeting extra requirements), pass the NBDHE, "a written examination on the laws and rules of this state regulating the practice of dental hygiene," and the ADEX Dental Hygiene clinical exam; remediation after three clinical failures | | 2026-07-26 | | A12 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Department certification of foreign dental schools: technical advisory group review; provisional certification up to 3 years; registration fee up to $1,000 plus survey costs up to $40,000; renewal every 7 years at up to $500 | | 2026-07-26 | | A13 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Reexamination rights: dentists retake only the failed part/procedure (whole exam if more than one failed); hygienists retake only the failed portion if reapplying within 12 months, but failing the prophylaxis requires retaking the entire exam | | 2026-07-26 | | A14 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Board certification for licensure of applicants satisfying s. 466.006, s. 466.0067, or s. 466.007; certification may be refused for s. 466.026 or s. 466.028 violations | | 2026-07-26 | | A15 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Biennial license renewal with a board-set fee not to exceed $300 | | 2026-07-26 | | A16 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Dentist CE: not less than 30 hours biennially, including a minimum of 2 hours on the safe and effective prescribing of controlled substances; up to 3 hours may be a qualifying practice-management course; credit-hour conversion rates; documentation retention | | 2026-07-26 | | A17 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Hygienist CE: at least 24 but not more than 36 hours biennially in board-prescribed or -approved programs; compliance mandatory for renewal; hardship excusal authority | | 2026-07-26 | | A18 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Inactive status: board rules for application, renewal, and reactivation; none of the inactive-status fees may exceed the biennial active renewal fee | | 2026-07-26 | | A19 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | License display in plain sight at every practice location; every dentist must give patients name, contact number, after-hours emergency contact, and license information; a business entity advertising dental services must designate a dentist of record with the board | | 2026-07-26 | | A20 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Dentist prescribing and anesthesia authority; board sedation rulemaking; CPR/ACLS certification with recertification every 2 years for anyone administering anesthesia; hygienist local anesthesia under **direct supervision, non-sedated patient, 18 or older**, after a course with **30 hours didactic + 30 hours clinical** and a certificate (fee capped at $35); adverse-incident reporting within 48 hours plus a complete written report within 30 days | | 2026-07-26 | | A21 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Every patient has a dentist of record who stays primarily responsible for all treatment; treatment presumed rendered by the dentist of record unless the record notes otherwise; records must justify the course of treatment; owner-dentist record duties in a multidentist practice; records kept **4 years from the date of the patient's last appointment** | | 2026-07-26 | | A22 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Dentist advertising: prohibited false/misleading content categories, incl. fee information "without a disclaimer that such is a minimum fee only"; mandatory in-person-exam disclaimer on telehealth ads for impressions, prostheses, appliances, and malocclusion correction; D.D.S. and D.M.D. are synonymous | | 2026-07-26 | | A23 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Written work-order prescription required for all dental laboratory work, dated and signed with the dentist's license number; dentist keeps a copy and the laboratory the original for **4 years each**; laboratory material disclosure and point-of-origin duties; laboratory noncompliance is a second-degree misdemeanor | | 2026-07-26 | | A24 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Peer review: committee members' duty to report violators, complainant/witness immunities, and confidentiality — peer review records are not discoverable or admissible in disciplinary proceedings | | 2026-07-26 | | A25 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Hygienist scope: only hygienists may be delegated calculus removal, root planing, and curettage; permitted settings incl. work on a patient of record under a dentist's prescription "valid for 2 years unless a shorter length of time is designated"; unsupervised education, fluoride, and charting authority; local anesthesia per ss. 466.017 and 466.024 | | 2026-07-26 | | A26 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Dental charting: visual-observation recording without X-rays or diagnostic equipment; unsupervised settings list; signed written disclosure form required first; **medical clearance required before using a periodontal probe**; charting creates neither a patient of record nor a medical record | | 2026-07-26 | | A27 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Delegation: irremediable tasks not delegable; statutory list of remediable tasks; health-access-setting tasks a hygienist may perform without dentist presence or authorization, with prior medical clearance and a dentist exam within **13 months** for scaling; written patient disclaimer; **$100,000/$300,000** malpractice coverage for unsupervised hygienists; curettage and root planing delegable only to hygienists; prescribing and diagnosis never delegable; dentist primarily responsible for all delegated procedures | | 2026-07-26 | | A28 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Dental intern permits at approved hospitals/institutions; temporary certificates for accredited-school graduates practicing in state and county government facilities under general supervision; nonprofit corporation permits issued for 1 year, renewable | | 2026-07-26 | | A29 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Third-degree felonies: unlicensed practice of dentistry or dental hygiene, using a suspended/revoked license, knowingly employing a person beyond their lawful scope, false evidence for licensure, diploma/license selling; first-degree misdemeanors: unlicensed use of "dentist"/"D.D.S."/"D.M.D." or "dental hygienist"/"R.D.H.", presenting another's license, concealing violations, dental assisting outside a licensed dentist's office | | 2026-07-26 | | A30 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Sexual misconduct in the practice of dentistry defined as using the dentist-patient relationship to induce or engage the patient in sexual activity outside the scope of practice; prohibited | | 2026-07-26 | | A31 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Deemed consent during lawful investigations: handwriting samples, and — on probable cause of moral turpitude, impairment, or controlled-substance/criminal violations — waiver of confidentiality of the dentist's own medical reports | | 2026-07-26 | | A32 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Department must establish a practitioner profile for dentists designated as controlled substance prescribing practitioners under s. 456.44 | | 2026-07-26 | | A33 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Dental-specific discipline grounds (1)(a)–(oo), incl. failing to keep records justifying treatment, unauthorized services, self-prescribing scheduled drugs, incompetence/negligence with the "dental malpractice" presumption (3+ paid claims in 5 years or any single indemnity over $25,000), presigning blank prescription/lab forms, hormone prescribing for muscle building, and anesthesia rule violations; minimum 6-month suspension for a (1)(z) delegation conviction | | 2026-07-26 | | A34 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Before initial orthodontic diagnosis/appliance use, the dentist must perform an in-person examination or obtain records of one within the previous 12 months, plus review the most recent diagnostic radiographs or equivalent bone imaging | | 2026-07-26 | | A35 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Specialty holding-out limits: ADA-recognized specialty education/diplomate status or bona fide board-recognized credentialing required; otherwise a practice-emphasis announcement must carry the capitalized "IS NOT RECOGNIZED AS A SPECIALTY AREA…" disclaimer | | 2026-07-26 | | A36 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Nondentist proprietorship ban: only a dentist (or professional corporation/LLC of dentists) may employ a dentist or hygienist in a dental office, control dental equipment in use, or direct/control/interfere with clinical judgment; violation is a third-degree felony and offending contracts are void | | 2026-07-26 | | A37 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | "Dental laboratory" defined (excludes an in-office technician working exclusively for that dentist); laboratory employees may consult onsite with a dentist during a procedure | | 2026-07-26 | | A38 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Biennial laboratory registration with a fee not to exceed $300; $40 delinquency fee after 3 months; 18 hours of biennial CE for an owner or at least one employee; exemptions for labs inside a dental practice and out-of-state labs | | 2026-07-26 | | A39 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Laboratory registration certificates issued on completed registration and rule compliance — no examination required | | 2026-07-26 | | A40 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Laboratory owner must notify the department within 30 days of any change of ownership or address | | 2026-07-26 | | A41 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Dental laboratories may not solicit or advertise to the general public to construct, reproduce, or repair prosthetic dentures, bridges, plates, or other appliances | | 2026-07-26 | | A42 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Laboratory information requirements and periodic inspection at least once each biennial registration period (sanitary conditions, equipment, supplies, facilities); department specifies equipment not allowed in a registered laboratory | | 2026-07-26 | | A43 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Department may suspend or revoke a laboratory registration certificate and impose an administrative fine for chapter or rule noncompliance | | 2026-07-26 | | A44 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Department rulemaking authority over dental laboratories, in consultation with the Board and industry representatives | | 2026-07-26 | | A45 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Operating an unregistered dental laboratory is a second-degree misdemeanor | | 2026-07-26 | | A46 | Statute (Dental Practice Act) | Licensees and applicants who are hepatitis B carriers must notify the board; board sets reporting procedures and protective practice requirements; carrier-status reports are confidential | | 2026-07-26 | | B1 | Statute (health professions general) | General licensing provisions: application mechanics (incomplete applications expire after 1 year), initial license fees, and the biennial **2-hour prevention-of-medical-errors CE course** (root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, patient safety) counted within the profession's total hours | | 2026-07-26 | | B2 | Statute (health professions general) | MOBILE Act licensure by endorsement: active unencumbered out-of-state license with similar scope, national exam/certification, 2 of the preceding 4 years in active practice, no discipline in 5 years; license issued within 7 days of complete documentation; boards may still require a state jurisprudential examination | | 2026-07-26 | | B3 | Statute (health professions general) | Department examination duties: development, security, and scoring; laws-and-rules competency certification authority (subsection (6), with electronic administration default); exam records kept at least 2 years; score challenges limited to candidates within 10 percent below the passing score | | 2026-07-26 | | B4 | Statute (health professions general) | Theft or reproduction of any department-administered examination, in whole or in part and by any means, is a **third-degree felony** — the statutory basis for this product's zero-recall rule | | 2026-07-26 | | B5 | Statute (health professions general) | Military licensure provisions: good standing kept during active duty and 6 months after discharge; fee waivers for veterans and spouses; military/veteran and military-spouse licensure pathways with 7-day expedited issuance | | 2026-07-26 | | B6 | Statute (health professions general) | Fee-setting framework: costs borne solely by licensees, renewal fees no more than 10% above the actual cost to regulate; CE-provider approval and renewal fees each capped at $250; duplicate license and record-certification fees capped at $25 | | 2026-07-26 | | B7 | Statute (health professions general) | 2-hour board-approved domestic violence CE course required "as part of every third biennial relicensure"; noncompliance is a disciplinary ground | | 2026-07-26 | | B8 | Statute (health professions general) | Department/board authority to handle and counsel hepatitis B- or HIV-infected practitioners; rebuttable presumption a reported blood-borne infection was contracted in the course of employment | | 2026-07-26 | | B9 | Statute (health professions general) | HIV/AIDS CE: board-approved course completed "no later than upon first renewal" — transmission modes, infection control, clinical management, Florida testing/confidentiality law | | 2026-07-26 | | B10 | Statute (health professions general) | Licensee solely responsible for keeping a current mailing address and place of practice on file; service by regular mail to the last known address of record is sufficient official notice | | 2026-07-26 | | B11 | Statute (health professions general) | Records ownership and release: "records owner" defined — dental hygienists are expressly excluded from records ownership; copies must be furnished "in a timely manner, without delays for legal review" and not conditioned on payment of a fee for services; written-authorization disclosure rule with enumerated exceptions; copying charged at no more than actual cost or the board-set amount; termination/relocation notice duties | | 2026-07-26 | | B12 | Statute (health professions general) | Free/discounted-service advertisements must carry the capitalized statement that the patient has a right to refuse to pay, cancel payment, or be reimbursed for any other service performed as a result of and within **72 hours** of responding to the advertisement | | 2026-07-26 | | B13 | Statute (health professions general) | Sexual misconduct defined for all health professions and prohibited; mandatory exam/licensure disqualification for prior sexual-misconduct license actions; licensees must report allegations of sexual misconduct to the department regardless of practice setting | | 2026-07-26 | | B14 | Statute (health professions general) | Health care fraud disqualification: enumerated fraud/drug felonies bar licensure unless sentence and probation ended more than 15 years (1st/2nd degree), 10 years (3rd degree), or 5 years (s. 893.13(6)(a)) before application; Medicaid terminations and OIG exclusion-list status also disqualify; relinquishment in anticipation of fraud charges is permanent revocation | | 2026-07-26 | | B15 | Statute (health professions general) | Unlicensed practice enforcement: cease-and-desist notices; citations of $500–$5,000 per incident; third-degree felony (minimum $1,000 fine and 1-year mandatory incarceration), second-degree felony when serious bodily injury results; $5 per-licensee unlicensed-activity fee | | 2026-07-26 | | B16 | Statute (health professions general) | Knowingly giving false information to obtain a license, or obtaining a license by knowing misrepresentation, is a third-degree felony | | 2026-07-26 | | B17 | Statute (health professions general) | All-professions discipline grounds (1)(a)–(tt) — the second discipline list that applies to dentists and hygienists alongside s. 466.028 — incl. scope violations, improper delegation, failure to report convictions within 30 days, wrong-site/wrong-patient procedures, retained foreign bodies, and s. 456.44 noncompliance; penalties incl. fines up to $10,000 per count (mandatory $10,000 for fraud) and permanent revocation | | 2026-07-26 | | B18 | Statute (health professions general) | Disciplinary procedure: legally sufficient complaints, 20-day written response, probable cause panels, notice-of-noncompliance option for minor violations (15-day correction window), ALJ hearings, confidentiality until 10 days after probable cause; administrative complaints generally must be filed within **6 years** of the incident (up to 12 years where fraud or concealment prevented discovery) | | 2026-07-26 | | B19 | Statute (health professions general) | Impaired practitioner programs: consultant-operated; impairment referred instead of disciplined when the practitioner acknowledges the impairment, completes a participant contract, and authorizes records; self-referral confidentiality; termination is reported to the department as a complaint | | 2026-07-26 | | B20 | Statute (health professions general) | Controlled substance prescribing: "acute pain" definition with exclusions; registrant standards for chronic nonmalignant pain; the acute-pain **3-day supply limit** for Schedule II opioids, extendable to **up to 7 days** only with medical necessity, the words "ACUTE PAIN EXCEPTION" on the prescription, and documented justification; "NONACUTE PAIN" notation otherwise; concurrent emergency-opioid-antagonist duty; nonopioid-alternatives counseling and pamphlet | | 2026-07-26 | | B21 | Statute (health professions general) | Telehealth: definition (excludes e-mail and fax); in-state standard of care applies; no Schedule II prescribing via telehealth except psychiatric disorders, hospital inpatients, hospice, and nursing-home residents; out-of-state provider registration with no in-person Florida practice; services deemed rendered where the patient is located | | 2026-07-26 | | B22 | Statute (health professions general) | Repeated medical malpractice under Art. X, s. 26 of the Florida Constitution: three or more found incidents bar licensure — the statute's "medical doctor" definition reaches chapter 458/459 physicians, not dentists; registered for contrast/awareness only | | 2026-07-26 | | B23 | Statute (PDMP) | The prescription drug monitoring program (E-FORCSE): dispensers report by the close of the next business day; reporting exemptions (acts of administration, Department of Corrections dispensing, patients under 16); prescribers/dispensers **must consult the system before prescribing or dispensing a controlled substance for a patient age 16 or older**, except nonopioid Schedule V drugs and hospice patients, or when the system is nonoperational or inaccessible — then no more than a 3-day supply with documentation; database purged of data older than 4 years; willful failure to report is a first-degree misdemeanor | | 2026-07-26 | | C1 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Public comment at board meetings: 3-minute limit per interested party, written notice of intent to be heard | | 2026-07-26 | | C2 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | What counts as an unexcused absence of a board member and the grounds for excusal | | 2026-07-26 | | C3 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | The dentist examination rule (amended eff. 6-1-2026): Written Examination covers "the laws and rules of the State of Florida regulating the practice of dentistry and dental hygiene" with a final grade of **75% or better** to pass; ADEX clinical parts must be completed within **18 months** (a clinical-series window — it does not attach to the laws-and-rules exam) at 75% per part | | 2026-07-26 | | C4 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | The dental hygiene examination rule (amended eff. 6-1-2026): the Laws and Rules Examination covers Ch. 466 F.S., Ch. 456 F.S., and Division 64B5 F.A.C., with **no more than 3% on Chapter 456**, pass mark **75% or greater**; ADEX clinical 18-month window and remedial-course requirements after clinical failures | | 2026-07-26 | | C5 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Licensure pathway for accredited-school dentist and hygienist candidates: eligibility upon completed application, passing ADEX clinical scores, national board scores, and "successful completion of the written examination on the laws and rules of Florida" | | 2026-07-26 | | C6 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | MOBILE Act licensure by endorsement: application form, s. 456.0145(2) compliance, and successful completion of an examination on the laws and rules of Florida regulating dentistry and dental hygiene | | 2026-07-26 | | C7 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Health access dental license application form (DH-MQA 1154) | | 2026-07-26 | | C8 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Hygiene licensure for graduates of unaccredited dental schools: credentials review (4 academic years of post-secondary dental education, ECE evaluation), alternative-evidence path, and the remedial-course gate before reexamination | | 2026-07-26 | | C9 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Dentist licensure for non-accredited-school graduates: credentials review, then either a full accredited program with D.D.S./D.M.D. or a 2-consecutive-academic-year accredited supplemental general dentistry program before the ADLEX and laws-and-rules exam | | 2026-07-26 | | C10 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Out-of-jurisdiction ADLEX scores over 365 days old: mandatory full-time-practice documentation month-for-month, and the hardship-excusal categories (newborn care, family serious health condition, own serious health condition) | | 2026-07-26 | | C11 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | After every third clinical-exam failure, reexamination requires a 1-year residency (GPR/AEGD/pedodontic) or a minimum of one academic year of undergraduate clinical dental coursework | | 2026-07-26 | | C12 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Advertising rule: every ad must identify the responsible Florida-licensed dentist; in-person and telephone solicitation prohibited; referral-service ads need four required statements; a former owner's name usable at most 2 years after a practice sale; "sleep dentistry" advertising requires a general anesthesia permit | | 2026-07-26 | | C13 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Fee advertising: minimum-fee disclaimer required; an advertised fee must state its effective period or be honored at least **90 days** after the final ad; services must be described by exact ADA code or nomenclature; free/discount ads must comply with s. 456.062 and state availability dates | | 2026-07-26 | | C14 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Approval of internship/residency programs — CODA-accredited programs deemed board-approved; content of a non-accredited program's application | | 2026-07-26 | | C15 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Intern/resident permits: application proof, CPR certification, and the employer's duty to report termination within 30 days; permit experience does not count toward the supplemental-education pathway | | 2026-07-26 | | C16 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Temporary certificates for unlicensed accredited-school graduates in state/county government facilities: biennial renewal with CE statement; canceled on termination, a s. 466.027/.028 finding, or failing the Florida dental licensure examination | | 2026-07-26 | | C17 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Teaching permits for full-time dental instructors: eligibility tracks, the requirement to pass **the Florida Dental Laws & Rules Examination**, and practice limited to the accredited program's teaching facilities | | 2026-07-26 | | C18 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Nonprofit corporation permits: certified charter for a s. 466.025(3) purpose, 501(c)(3) proof, and indigent-care admission criteria | | 2026-07-26 | | C19 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Limited license for retired/retiring practitioners licensed at least 10 years: practice only for public or 501(c)(3) agencies serving the indigent or critical-need populations; fees waived on a notarized no-compensation statement | | 2026-07-26 | | C20 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Required contents of a dentist's prescription for dental hygiene services on a patient of record: patient, dentist, and hygienist identification plus "the specific services authorized and the frequency of the services authorized"; kept in the patient's record | | 2026-07-26 | | C21 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Dental assistants may position and expose radiographs only if certified as dental radiographers or graduates of a board-approved program; certification requires at least **3 months** of on-the-job training under direct supervision plus a board-approved course completed within 12 months; certificate conspicuously displayed | | 2026-07-26 | | C22 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Renewal exemption for a licensee who is a military spouse absent from Florida at least 6 consecutive months because of the spouse's armed-forces duties | | 2026-07-26 | | C23 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Election, biennial renewal, and reactivation mechanics for inactive status, with the applicable 64B5-15 fees | | 2026-07-26 | | C24 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Retired status and reactivation: back renewal fees for all retired biennia, CE proof for each retired biennium, financial-responsibility proof for dentists, and a board appearance after more than 5 years retired | | 2026-07-26 | | C25 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | The CE rule: **30 hours (dentists) / 24 hours (hygienists)** per biennium; 2-hour medical-errors course each biennium; CPR certification in person or blended (online-only not accepted) that **does not count toward the hours**; 2-hour domestic violence course every **third** biennium; 2-hour HIV/AIDS course by first renewal; 2-hour controlled-substance course each biennium for dentists; credit-award methods and caps | | 2026-07-26 | | C26 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | CE excusals: no CE required in the biennium of initial licensure, or while a full-time postgraduate student or full-time faculty member at an accredited school — but statutory courses (medical errors, domestic violence, HIV/AIDS) are not excused | | 2026-07-26 | | C27 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Creditable CE subject areas (basic science, clinical, patient safety, legal responsibilities); no credit for practice-development/marketing/financial courses except the statutory 3-hour practice-management allowance; no credit for identical courses in the same biennium | | 2026-07-26 | | C28 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | CE-provider application via CE Broker with instructor-qualification documentation; study clubs of at least five licensees may apply | | 2026-07-26 | | C29 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Approved-provider standards: half-hour/hour of credit per 25/50 minutes of instruction, no credit under 25 minutes; certification contents; a provider-licensee may give staff at most 12 hours of non-CPR credit per biennium | | 2026-07-26 | | C30 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Individual-study credit for conference presentations, editorial-reviewed publications, and accredited-school lectures (lecture credit capped at 15 hours per biennium) | | 2026-07-26 | | C31 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Board approval standards for pro bono CE programs: nonprofit structure, uncompensated care to the indigent, daily volunteer registration, 4-year documentation retention, and hygienist-supervision conditions | | 2026-07-26 | | C32 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Probable cause panel: three members, at least two Florida-licensed dentists; quorum of two with unanimous vote required when only two sit; hygienist-member requirement when a hygienist or radiographer case is considered | | 2026-07-26 | | C33 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Violations designated minor for notice-of-noncompliance treatment, e.g. practicing under 2 months without an active license, specified advertising-form defects, released-late records, address-change failures, presigned lab work orders — initial violations only | | 2026-07-26 | | C34 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Citation offenses and fixed fines, e.g. practicing 2–6 months on a lapsed license ($1,000 dentist / $250 hygienist), failure to timely release records within 30 days ($1,000), presigned lab forms ($500), address-change failure ($250) | | 2026-07-26 | | C35 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Disciplinary guidelines: minimum-to-maximum penalty ranges per statutory violation, incl. telehealth-registrant columns; a mandatory $10,000-per-count fine for fraud or false representation | | 2026-07-26 | | C36 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Duties after revocation/suspension: immediate license surrender, no compensation for services during the period, and — for sanctions of a year or more — patient notification by mail within 1 month and removal of listings and signage | | 2026-07-26 | | C37 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Anesthesia definitions: general anesthesia, deep sedation, moderate sedation, **pediatric moderate sedation** (pediatric = under 18 or special needs), minimal sedation, nitrous-oxide inhalation analgesia, titration of oral medication, the office team approach, and the Certified Registered Dental Hygienist (CRDH) | | 2026-07-26 | | C38 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Sedation prohibitions: no GA/deep/moderate/pediatric-moderate sedation without the matching permit; **propofol, methohexital, thiopental, etomidate, ketamine, dexmedetomidine, and volatile gases require a general anesthesia permit**; no titration of oral medication to moderate sedation without a permit; one induced patient at a time; CRDH limits around sedated patients | | 2026-07-26 | | C39 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Anesthesia permit applications: proof of training plus documented clinical administration to 20 patients within the prior 2 years; an on-site facility inspection before issuance; application and permit fees per 64B5-15 | | 2026-07-26 | | C40 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Permit qualifications: GA permit requires a 2-year CODA anesthesiology residency or OMFS credentials; moderate and pediatric moderate permits require a minimum of **60 didactic hours (incl. 4 hours airway management)** and personal administration for at least 20 patients; ACLS required (PALS for pediatric permits, and for any sedation of patients 7 or under since 3-1-2022); nitrous-oxide training pathway; a 3-person team minimum | | 2026-07-26 | | C41 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Itinerant/mobile anesthesia by a physician anesthesiologist in a dental office: sedation level not limited to the treating dentist's permit; anesthesiologist responsible for the anesthesia; one induced patient at a time; inspected-office conditions | | 2026-07-26 | | C42 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | A general-anesthesia permit holder providing sedation services for another permitted dentist's patient: permitted office settings and shared adverse-incident reporting responsibility | | 2026-07-26 | | C43 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | A non-permitted dentist may treat a patient sedated by a permitted dentist only if the permitted dentist sedates in their own inspected office, stays from onset through discharge with no other induced patient, and the treating dentist has 4 hours of airway-management CE repeated every 4 years | | 2026-07-26 | | C44 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | A dentist may supervise a qualified anesthetist (CRNA) under direct supervision only if the dentist holds a permit for the level of sedation being administered and maintains the office equipment for that level | | 2026-07-26 | | C45 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Every active sedation-permit holder must complete a board-approved **4-hour Medical Emergencies course with a hands-on airway-management component** each biennium (countable within the 30 CE hours) | | 2026-07-26 | | C46 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Adverse occurrences: written notice to the Board by registered mail within **48 hours** and a complete written report within **30 days**, with itemized report contents; parallel CRDH reporting for local-anesthesia incidents plus a contemporaneous supervising-dentist report; noncompliance is a disciplinary ground | | 2026-07-26 | | C47 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Facility inspections by dentist consultants before permit issuance, including a demonstrated sedation on a patient and simulated responses to listed emergencies (airway obstruction, bronchospasm, MI, and others) | | 2026-07-26 | | C48 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Facility standards for general anesthesia/deep sedation at every authorized location: operatory and recovery-room design, required equipment and drugs, emergency protocols, records, and continuous monitoring by a 3-person team | | 2026-07-26 | | C49 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | The parallel facility, equipment, drug, records, and monitoring standards for moderate sedation permit holders | | 2026-07-26 | | C50 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | The parallel facility, equipment, drug, records, and monitoring standards for pediatric moderate sedation permit holders | | 2026-07-26 | | C51 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Application fees: dentist $100, dental hygienist $50, health access dental license $100 | | 2026-07-26 | | C52 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Biennial licensure/renewal fees: dental (and health access) $300, dental hygiene $75; initial fees equal renewal fees, halved for licensure granted in the second year of a biennium | | 2026-07-26 | | C53 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Inactive-license renewal fees: $300 dental, $75 dental hygiene | | 2026-07-26 | | C54 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Reactivation fees for an inactive license: $300 dental, $75 dental hygiene | | 2026-07-26 | | C55 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Delinquency fees: dental $50 (postmarked by March 31 of even years) or $150 after; dental hygiene $25 or $75 on the same split | | 2026-07-26 | | C56 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Mid-cycle change-of-status processing fee: $300 dental, $75 dental hygiene | | 2026-07-26 | | C57 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Fee for changing to retired status other than at renewal: $300 dental, $75 dental hygiene | | 2026-07-26 | | C58 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Retired status fee: $50 | | 2026-07-26 | | C59 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Dental radiographer certification fee: $35 | | 2026-07-26 | | C60 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Duplication fee of $25 per license, certification, or permit | | 2026-07-26 | | C61 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Nonrefundable $100 application fee for each anesthesia permit type (general anesthesia, moderate sedation, pediatric moderate sedation) | | 2026-07-26 | | C62 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Initial permit fee of $200 for each anesthesia permit type, refundable only if denied without inspection | | 2026-07-26 | | C63 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Biennial renewal fee of $200 for each anesthesia permit type, nonrefundable | | 2026-07-26 | | C64 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Continuing education provider fees: $200 initial approval and $200 biennial renewal | | 2026-07-26 | | C65 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | $100 registration fee at registration and each biennial renewal for dentists who dispense medicinal drugs for remuneration | | 2026-07-26 | | C66 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | The supervision-level rule: remediable tasks defined (laser use is not remediable except as an assessment device); **direct, indirect, and general supervision** defined in rule; a general-supervision authorization is valid for a **maximum of 24 months**, after which no further general-supervision treatment without another clinical exam by a Florida-licensed dentist; assistant-delegable tasks are hygienist-delegable at the same level unless stated otherwise | | 2026-07-26 | | C67 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Formal training (accredited-curriculum or board-approved expanded-duty course with a 75% examination pass) vs. on-the-job training by a dentist who assumes full responsibility; course-approval standards incl. a 1:10 instructor-student cap | | 2026-07-26 | | C68 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | The dental-assistant task lists: tasks under direct supervision after formal training (e.g. temporary restorations, monitoring nitrous-oxide administration, preliminary charting) and after on-the-job training, plus the assistant task lists at indirect and general supervision | | 2026-07-26 | | C69 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Restorative functions for dental assistants — **direct supervision only**: placing, packing, and contouring restorations and fitting/contouring stainless-steel crowns after a dentist prepares the tooth, but an assistant "shall not permanently cement stainless steel crowns"; a 4-supervisee simultaneous cap; 105-clock-hour mandatory course with 2,400 hours' prior experience and 75% exams | | 2026-07-26 | | C70 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | The hygienist task lists by supervision level: gingival curettage under direct supervision by licensure; CRDH local anesthesia under direct supervision (patient 18+, not sedated, intraoral block and soft-tissue infiltration); indirect-supervision tasks; prophylaxis, radiographs, and root planing under general supervision; and the without-supervision task lists | | 2026-07-26 | | C71 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Restorative functions for dental hygienists — **direct supervision only**: placing, packing, and contouring restorations and fitting/contouring stainless-steel crowns, but a hygienist "shall not permanently cement stainless steel crowns"; 4-supervisee simultaneous cap; 85-clock-hour mandatory course with chart-annotation and dentist-verification duties | | 2026-07-26 | | C72 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Required contents of the dental charting form and patient acknowledgment (incl. the not-a-substitute and dentist-only-diagnosis statements, and written medical clearance before periodontal probing); anonymized forms allowed for epidemiological surveys | | 2026-07-26 | | C73 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Emergency remediable tasks without pre-examination when the dentist of record cannot be present and the patient "will be seen by a dentist within 3 days" — six comfort tasks (recementing loose bands, temporary crowns, dressings, etc.) by CPR-certified, trained assistants and hygienists | | 2026-07-26 | | C74 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Supervising licensee must ensure formal-training certificates are conspicuously displayed where the tasks are performed and keep copies on file | | 2026-07-26 | | C75 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Grandfather clause: hygienists and assistants trained before April 30, 1980, may continue previously authorized tasks without the chapter's formal training | | 2026-07-26 | | C76 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Records on death, relocation, or termination of practice: a deceased dentist's estate must place records with another Florida dentist within 90 days; records kept available **4 years**; published/website notice to patients once a week for 4 consecutive weeks | | 2026-07-26 | | C77 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Written notice to the department of the licensee's current mailing address and place of practice (the primary physical practice location) | | 2026-07-26 | | C78 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | The records rule: minimum dental-record content; corrections must be dated, initialed, and explained, with deletions by strike-through that "remain legible" — never removed; retention for **at least four (4) years from the date the patient was last examined or treated**; appointment books kept 4 years; electronic records need a backup updated at least every 72 hours; dentist-of-record identification defaults | | 2026-07-26 | | C79 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Split-fee referral arrangements prohibited; same-practice referrals and productivity-based fee arrangements distinguished | | 2026-07-26 | | C80 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Every dentist must provide reasonable **24-hour emergency services** for patients under continuing care, personally, through another dentist, or by reciprocal agreement | | 2026-07-26 | | C81 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Board acute-pain prescribing standards implementing s. 456.44(4): evaluation, treatment plan, informed consent, periodic review, consultation, and records that must document justification for deviating from the 3-day Schedule II opioid supply limit and any PDMP outage encountered | | 2026-07-26 | | C82 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Dentists must offer patients permanent, legible marking of removable prosthetic devices with the patient's name at fabrication (and at relining/rebasing), unless not practicable or clinically safe | | 2026-07-26 | | C83 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Required contents of laboratory-procedure prescription and lab-to-lab authorization forms; dentist copies kept 4 years and lab originals 4 years | | 2026-07-26 | | C84 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Record copies on request: not conditioned on an unpaid or disputed fee; copying fee capped at the county court clerk's per-page charge and X-rays at actual duplication cost; "timely" release means **less than 30 days** absent circumstances beyond the licensee's control | | 2026-07-26 | | C85 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | What is *not* unlicensed practice: over-the-counter removable mouth-protection devices, and nondentist shade verification for fixed prostheses under twelve enumerated conditions (visual contact only, dentist's prior shade selection, work-order accompaniment) | | 2026-07-26 | | C86 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | A dental hygienist is not precluded from owning the dental instruments used in providing dental hygiene services | | 2026-07-26 | | C87 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Financial responsibility as a licensure/renewal prerequisite: malpractice coverage of at least **$100,000 per claim / $300,000 annual aggregate** or an equivalent irrevocable letter of credit; exemption categories; coverage must extend to supervised hygienists, and unsupervised hygienists under s. 466.0235 carry their own | | 2026-07-26 | | C88 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Use of Sargenti cement (N2, RC2B, RC2W or similar paraformaldehyde compounds) as an endodontic filling material does not meet the minimum standard of performance for competent dental practice | | 2026-07-26 | | C89 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | The proprietorship rule implementing s. 466.0285: no nondentist employment or control of a dentist's clinical judgment; the defined scope of permissible "Practice Management Services" and the seven things a practice-management agreement may never do (control clinical personnel, limit scope or payment methods, condition fees on referrals, etc.) | | 2026-07-26 | | C90 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Removing amalgam fillings to cure or prevent systemic illness is deemed alternative/complementary care requiring the s. 456.41 disclosures, documented in the record | | 2026-07-26 | | C91 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Every dental office location must have an automatic external defibrillator (since February 28, 2006); practicing without an on-site AED "shall be considered to be practicing below the minimum standard of care" | | 2026-07-26 | | C92 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Purpose clause: failure to follow the 64B5-25.003 sterilization/disinfection procedures violates s. 466.028(1)(u) (sanitary conditions) and constitutes below-minimum-standards negligence under s. 466.028(1)(x) | | 2026-07-26 | | C93 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Definitions: sterilization vs. disinfection; "infected with the Hepatitis B virus" means sero-positive for both the surface antigen and the e-antigen; incorporation of the 2008 CDC guidelines and OSHA bloodborne-pathogen standards | | 2026-07-26 | | C94 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Required sterilization/disinfection procedures: approved sterilization methods; instruments (incl. handpieces) sterilized after each use; biological monitoring of autoclave/chemical-vapor sterilizers every **40 hours of use or 30 days** (120 hours for dry heat/ethylene oxide); glove, mask, eyewear, and disposables rules | | 2026-07-26 | | C95 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | HBV-infected licensees: written notice to the Board within **14 days** of learning of infection; a board-approved course of at least **6 clock hours completed within 6 months**; at least annual random compliance monitoring; break-in-barrier notification — patient immediately, telephone within 24 hours, written within 72 hours | | 2026-07-26 | | C96 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Biohazardous waste handled per Chapter 64E-16; extracted teeth decontaminated before educational use or return to the patient, otherwise discarded as biohazardous waste or sharps | | 2026-07-26 | | C97 | Rule (Board of Dentistry) | Impressions, appliances, and contaminated models shipped to dental laboratories must be sealed in an impervious container labeled "treat as infectious material" | | 2026-07-26 | | C98 | Rule (Dental Laboratories) | Laboratory inspections at least once per biennial registration period, with or without notice; sanitation policy, 4-year prescription retention on premises, receiving-area procedures, and prohibited equipment (dental chairs, X-ray machines, anesthetics/sedatives) — **64B27 is not in the current exam scope; awareness only** | | 2026-07-26 | | C99 | Rule (Dental Laboratories) | Laboratory biennial registration: form plus a $200 biennial fee; ownership/address changes (incl. closure) reported within 30 days — awareness only | | 2026-07-26 | | C100 | Rule (Dental Laboratories) | Laboratory CE: 18 hours biennially for the owner/operator or a designated employee, incl. 2 hours medical-errors coursework and a 1–3 hour laws-and-rules course; CDT certification satisfies the requirement — awareness only | | 2026-07-26 | | C101 | Rule (Dental Laboratories) | Department disciplinary guidelines for registered laboratories: per-violation penalty ranges, cost recovery, and a $10,000-per-count fraud penalty — awareness only | | 2026-07-26 | | C102 | Rule (Dental Laboratories) | Notice of noncompliance as the first response to a minor laboratory violation (late address change, late renewal), with a 15-day correction window — awareness only | | 2026-07-26 | | C103 | Rule (Dental Laboratories) | Laboratory citation offenses and fixed fines ($100–$500, e.g. $200 for operating on a delinquent registration), corrected within 60 days — awareness only | | 2026-07-26 | | C104 | Rule (Dental Laboratories) | Mediation designated for specified first-time laboratory disputes (insufficient-funds payments, equipment/information disputes) — awareness only | | 2026-07-26 | | D1 | Board/vendor publication | The live vendor scope-and-mechanics page for both exams: item counts (up to 67 FDLR / up to 64 FHLR incl. up to 5 unscored field-test items), 90 minutes, 75% pass mark, fees ($135 dentist / $105 hygienist), and the three-source content scope (Ch. 456 F.S., Ch. 466 F.S., Div. 64B5 F.A.C.) | | 2026-07-26 | | D2 | Board/vendor publication | The 2026 candidate guide: registration and Prometric computer-based delivery, closed-book conduct rules, 2–3-business-day pass/fail results, 2-year registration-credit expiry, and the listing of the Laws & Rules exams as standalone exams outside the clinical series | | 2026-07-26 | | D3 | Board/vendor publication | The Board's compiled Laws and Rules Booklet — a **frozen rev. 07/2023 snapshot** used in this tree only to confirm historical scope; never a citation target for current statute or rule text | | 2026-07-26 | | D4 | Board/vendor publication | Division of Medical Quality Assurance annual report tables on initial dentist and dental hygienist licenses issued, incl. MOBILE Act endorsements — market-sizing context only, never an exam-content source | | 2026-07-26 | | D5 | Board/vendor publication | The Board's dentist licensing page: application pathways, examination requirements, and links to current forms | | 2026-07-26 | | D6 | Board/vendor publication | The Board's dental hygienist licensing page: application pathways, examination requirements, and links to current forms | | 2026-07-26 | | D7 | Board/vendor publication | The Department of Health's E-FORCSE program page: PDMP registration, access, and operational guidance supporting the s. 893.055 duties | | 2026-07-26 | | D8 | Board/vendor publication | Online Sunshine landing page for the full current Chapter 466 — used for chapter-level navigation; individual sections are cited by their own A-series rows | | 2026-07-26 | ## Disclosures - Dentovio is an independent publisher. 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