Dentist CE snapshot
50 hours / 2 years
Last verified 2026-07-08. Research confidence: high.
Role-specific online CE
Minnesota dentist online dental CE
Dentists in Minnesota: 50 hours / 2 years. Online/live-course signal from Dentovio's sourced CE notes: Dentovio did not isolate a specific online, live, correspondence, home-study, webinar, or self-study cap in the sourced renewal notes. Review the official board source before choosing course formats. Confirm the current dentist live, webinar, correspondence, home-study, self-study, provider, and audit rules with the Minnesota dental board before enrolling.
Online and live-course signal
Dentovio did not isolate a specific online, live, correspondence, home-study, webinar, or self-study cap in the sourced renewal notes. Review the official board source before choosing course formats.
Before choosing a course
- Verify whether live webinar hours count differently from self-paced online CE.
- Check caps for correspondence, home-study, self-study, or asynchronous formats.
- Confirm provider approval for your role before enrolling.
- Keep completion certificates and audit records in the board-required format.
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Source language to review
Dentovio did not isolate a specific online, live, correspondence, home-study, webinar, or self-study cap in the sourced renewal notes. Review the official board source before choosing course formats.
Full renewal-cycle note
Biennial (24-month) cycle ending on the last day of the licensee's birth month in an even- or odd-numbered year (MN Rules 3100.5100). Dentists & dental therapists: 50 hrs (min 30 fundamental, max 20 elective). Hygienists & licensed dental assistants: 25 hrs (min 15 fundamental, max 10 elective). Mandatory: an infection control course every cycle (must primarily address patient safety/health per 3100.6300 & ch. 6950), PLUS each licensee must complete at least 2 courses from a specified mandatory-topic list each cycle. Dentists holding anesthesia/sedation permits owe an additional 15 hrs in anesthesia topics. No carryover of excess hours. The rule does not itemize a standalone CPR/BLS, opioid, or ethics hour mandate beyond the infection-control + '2-from-the-list' structure.