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Colorado dental assistant online dental CE

Dental assistants in Colorado: No standalone CE-hours requirement for Dental Assistants; Expanded Duty Dental Assistants (EDDAs) must maintain current CPR/BLS certification and complete CE tied to their permits (no fixed board-published hour total confirmed). Online/live-course signal from Dentovio's sourced CE notes: LIVE/SELF-STUDY CAP: at least 50% of required CE hours must be LIVE and interactive. Confirm the current dental assistant live, webinar, correspondence, home-study, self-study, provider, and audit rules with the Colorado dental board before enrolling.

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Dental assistant CE snapshot

No standalone CE-hours requirement for Dental Assistants; Expanded Duty Dental Assistants (EDDAs) must maintain current CPR/BLS certification and complete CE tied to their permits (no fixed board-published hour total confirmed)

Last verified 2026-07-08. Research confidence: high.

Online and live-course signal

LIVE/SELF-STUDY CAP: at least 50% of required CE hours must be LIVE and interactive.

Before choosing a course

  1. Verify whether live webinar hours count differently from self-paced online CE.
  2. Check caps for correspondence, home-study, self-study, or asynchronous formats.
  3. Confirm provider approval for your role before enrolling.
  4. Keep completion certificates and audit records in the board-required format.

Source language to review

  • LIVE/SELF-STUDY CAP: at least 50% of required CE hours must be LIVE and interactive.

Full renewal-cycle note

2-year license period. Dentists/Dental Therapists and Dental Hygienists both need 30 CE hours per 2-year cycle. First-renewal proration: licensed <12 months = no CE; 12-24 months = 15 hours. At least 16 of 30 hours (or 8 of 15) must be clinical/science-based. LIVE/SELF-STUDY CAP: at least 50% of required CE hours must be LIVE and interactive. OPIOID/CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE: dentists must complete at least 1 hour each cycle on best practices for opioid/benzodiazepine prescribing, substance-use-disorder recognition/referral, and PDMP use. CPR/BLS: current BLS certification required for all licensees (capped at 2 CE hours). No explicit standalone infection-control or law/ethics hour mandate found.

References

Last verified 2026-07-08 (research confidence: high). Educational summary only, not compliance advice. Confirm current live, online, correspondence, webinar, home-study, self-study, provider, and audit rules with the Colorado board before enrolling.