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Wisconsin dentist online dental CE

Dentists in Wisconsin: 30 credit hours / 2 years. Online/live-course signal from Dentovio's sourced CE notes: No dedicated law/ethics hour mandate in the rule; no explicit blanket live-vs-self-study percentage cap found (governed by DE 13 approved-course criteria). Confirm the current dentist live, webinar, correspondence, home-study, self-study, provider, and audit rules with the Wisconsin dental board before enrolling.

Official board sourceCE trackerState online CE page

Dentist CE snapshot

30 credit hours / 2 years

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

Online and live-course signal

No dedicated law/ethics hour mandate in the rule; no explicit blanket live-vs-self-study percentage cap found (governed by DE 13 approved-course criteria).

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

  • No dedicated law/ethics hour mandate in the rule; no explicit blanket live-vs-self-study percentage cap found (governed by DE 13 approved-course criteria).

Full renewal-cycle note

BIENNIAL (Wis. Admin. Code ch. DE 13; renewal biennium). DENTIST: 30 credit hrs / 2 yrs, of which not less than 25 must be clinical dentistry/medicine, and 2 hrs must cover prescribing of controlled substances for the treatment of dental pain. HYGIENIST: 12 credit hrs / 2 yrs, of which not less than 2 hrs must be infection control; no more than 2 of the 12 may be satisfied by BLS/CPR training. CE does not apply to the biennium in which a license is first issued. Records must be kept at least 6 years. No dedicated law/ethics hour mandate in the rule; no explicit blanket live-vs-self-study percentage cap found (governed by DE 13 approved-course criteria).

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 Wisconsin board before enrolling.