Delaware Board of Dentistry and Dental Hygiene

Delaware dentist CE requirements

The published continuing-education requirements for a Delaware dental license, laid out clearly so you can see the whole picture before your renewal.

What the board requires

• 50 hrsTotal per biennial cycle.
• 2 hrsInfection control, counted within the total.
• Up to 10 hrsSelf-study without testing (reading textbooks, tape journals, audio-visual materials).
• Up to 20 hrsSelf-study with test and certificate (mail-in courses and non-live internet courses).
• RequiredCurrent CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) course completed every 2 years with hands-on clinical participation; online CPR courses are not accepted. Separate from and not counted toward the 50 CPE hours. (does not count toward CE hours).

Common questions

Source: Delaware Board of Dentistry and Dental Hygiene (https://dpr.delaware.gov/boards/dental/). RECONCILIATION SUMMARY (US-DE dentist). FULL AGREEMENT: Extractors A and B independently agree on the entire numeric spine. Cycle: 24 months, biennial. Total: 50 CPE hours per biennial cycle. Mandated subject: 2 hours infection control, counted within the 50. Format caps: max 10 hours self-study without testing (mapped to self_instruction) and max 20 hours self-study with test and certificate (mapped to online_selfstudy plus correspondence), which sum to the regulation overall 30-hour self-study ceiling. No excluded formats. Provider acceptance is broad (ADA/CERP, AGD/PACE, ADHA, ADAA, recognized specialty organizations, dental study clubs, accredited dental schools, approved hospital programs, plus other board-approved sources), so strict = false. Carryover 0. CPR required every 2 years with hands-on clinical participation, online CPR not accepted, placed in requiredCredentials because the regulation states it is in addition to the CPE and is not counted as CE hours. Both extractors cite the same primary source: Delaware Administrative Code Title 24, 1100 Board of Dentistry and Dental Hygiene, Section 6.0, at regulations.delaware.gov. Only cosmetic differences existed (topic and cap id casing, provider.accepts array order, CPR type casing); resolved without affecting substance. WITHIN vs ADDITIVE: Infection control resolved to within. Board text: "All persons licensed to practice dentistry in the State of Delaware shall be required to acquire fifty (50) hours of continuing professional education (CPE) credit every two (2) years. Two (2) of the 50 credit hours shall be obtained in courses covering infection control." The 2 hours are explicitly a subset of the 50, so counting = within. CPR is separate and non-counting (requiredCredentials), not additive CE, because the board states it is "in addition to the CPE" and never expresses it as CE hours. STATUS: extracted_agree. Both blind extractions match on the full numeric spine, the source is a live primary official-code URL (regulations.delaware.gov), the single within/additive determination is unambiguous, and no field depends on a mirror. The law.cornell.edu (LII) copy was used only as a cross-check and agreed on the 50-hour biennial figure. Section 6.0 was last amended effective 08/01/2020. Per hard rule, every citation remains verified: false and a human operator must sign off before go-live. This reflects the hours requirement as written in the current administrative code; it is not represented as verified or complete. EXTRACTION FLAGS (transparency items for human review; none are spine disagreements): 1. Format-code mapping is interpretive. Delaware uses the labels "self-study without testing" and "self-study with test and certificate," not the 7 fixed format codes. Both extractors mapped without-testing to self_instruction and with-testing to online_selfstudy plus correspondence to keep the partition clean (no code repeated). The cap hours (10 and 20) are unaffected; only which codes the caps attach to is a judgment call a reviewer should confirm. 2. The overall 30-hour self-study aggregate is represented as two sub-caps (10 + 20), not a single combined cap, because format-code partition rules forbid reusing a code across caps. 3. Anesthesia/sedation CE (at least 12 hours for an Unrestricted anesthesia Permit, at least 6 hours for a Restricted I Permit, over a 6-year re-evaluation window, Sec. 6.6.10-6.6.11) applies only to permit holders, not to a general dentist license; excluded from topics. If it applied it would map to sedation_anesthesia. 4. A possible separate Delaware controlled-substance / opioid prescribing CE under a different authority (Uniform Controlled Substances Act / DHSS) was not confirmed and is outside this Board of Dentistry 50-hour CPE regulation. 5. Per-activity credit ceilings in Sec. 6.6 (teaching/faculty, course presentation, publication, practice management, volunteer pro bono) were not encoded as formatCaps or topics because they are per-activity credit values, not mandatory subjects or delivery-format caps. 6. All citations carry verified: false pending human live-source confirmation; initial/new licensees have prorated hours (Sec. 6.7.2). These are the published requirements as we read them, not legal or board advice, and CEChart does not certify compliance. Confirm your requirements with Delaware Board of Dentistry and Dental Hygiene before you rely on them.