Role-specific online CE
Dental assistants in Vermont: No state CE requirement (dental assistants register but board rules do not impose a specific CE hour count; if DANB-certified, DANB renewal separately requires 12+ CE/year). Online/live-course signal from Dentovio's sourced CE notes: Dentist: 30 hrs every 2 yrs; all may be completed by home/self-study (self-study courses must conclude with an examination to be accepted). Confirm the current dental assistant live, webinar, correspondence, home-study, self-study, provider, and audit rules with the Vermont dental board before enrolling.
Dental assistant CE snapshot
Last verified 2026-07-08. Research confidence: high.
Dentist: 30 hrs every 2 yrs; all may be completed by home/self-study (self-study courses must conclude with an examination to be accepted).
Biennial renewal via VT Office of Professional Regulation. Dentist: 30 hrs every 2 yrs; all may be completed by home/self-study (self-study courses must conclude with an examination to be accepted). A course in emergency office procedures is required as a condition of every biennial renewal for BOTH dentists and hygienists (only one emergency-procedures course may count toward the hour total). Hygienist: 18 hrs every 2 yrs, of which 15 must be in clinical or didactic dental/dental-hygiene subject areas. No CE reporting is required at the first renewal after initial licensure. CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: dentists who prescribe/dispense controlled substances must complete 2 hrs on controlled substances every 2 yrs — this derives from VT's separate opioid/OPR prescriber rule, NOT from the Board of Dental Examiners CE rule (Ch. 080), so treat as MEDIUM confidence and verify on the OPR page. No dedicated infection-control or law/ethics hour mandate found in the board CE rule.
