Florida Board of Dentistry (Florida Department of Health)

Florida dentist CE requirements

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

What the board requires

• 30 hrsTotal per biennial cycle.
• 2 hrsPrevention of medical errors, counted within the total.
• 2 hrsSafe and effective prescribing of controlled substances, counted within the total.
• 2 hrsDomestic violence, counted within the total.
• 2 hrsHIV/AIDS and infectious diseases, counted within the total.
• Up to 15 hrsIndividual study - lecturing/teaching at an accredited dental school or Board-approved program (self-credit).
• RequiredBasic-level (BLS) CPR certification/recertification by AHA, American Red Cross, or equivalent; must be in-person or blended-learning (online-only not accepted); does NOT count toward the 30 hours (does not count toward CE hours).

Common questions

Source: Florida Board of Dentistry (Florida Department of Health) (https://floridasdentistry.gov/). PROPOSAL - unverified; Brian signs off. Full numeric SPINE agrees: cycle = 24 months (biennial); total = 30 hours (dentist); all four mandated courses = 2 hours each and all WITHIN the 30 ('shall count towards the requirement of subsection (1)', quoted verbatim for each). CPR/BLS is the sole ADDITIVE item - the rule states CPR 'shall not [count] towards the requirement of subsection (1)' - so it is a required non-CE certification ON TOP of the 30, captured under requiredCredentials. Carryover = 0 (rule silent). Primary rule: Fla. Admin. Code R. 64B5-12.013 (eff. 11/30/2025), corroborated by Fla. Stat. 466.0135; individual-study cap from R. 64B5-12.018. CE tracked via CE Broker; dentist renewals fall Feb 28 of even years. FLAGGED (not extracted_agree) because format caps disagree (B lists an extra HIV-only home-study cap and adds publication), providerAccepts disagree (PACE), providerStrict disagree (A false / B true), and B's cited URL is a secondary mirror rather than the official flrules.org publisher. Assembled values use the best-agreed subset; every discrepancy is enumerated in flags[]. Recurrence: medical errors + controlled substances every biennium; domestic violence every 3rd biennial renewal; HIV/AIDS one-time by first renewal. EXTRACTION FLAGS (why this is not yet verified): - FORMAT-CAP DISAGREEMENT: Extractor B reports a second format cap (home study permitted ONLY for the HIV/AIDS course, formats correspondence/online_selfstudy, no numeric ceiling) that Extractor A does not list. B also adds 'publication' to the individual-study 15-hour cap; A scopes that cap to teaching only. Only the teaching 15-hr/biennium cap (Rule 64B5-12.018) is agreed by both; the home-study and publication elements are unverified. - PROVIDER-ACCEPTS DISAGREEMENT: Extractor A includes PACE (AGD-approved providers accepted); Extractor B excludes PACE because AGD/PACE is not named verbatim in the current rule. Assembled value uses the agreed subset [state_approved, CERP] only. - PROVIDER-STRICT DISAGREEMENT: Extractor A set providerStrict=false (nationally recognized ADA/AGD/CODA providers accepted); Extractor B set providerStrict=true (board-approved providers / ADA-recognized only). Assembled as false pending human confirmation. - SOURCE-AUTHORITY CONCERN: Extractor A cites the official Florida Administrative Code publisher (flrules.org, Dept. of State readFile .doc); Extractor B cites a third-party mirror (flrules.elaws.us) while claiming primary_board authority. Both point to the same underlying rule 64B5-12.013 (eff. 11/30/2025) and 64B5-12.018, but B's URL is a secondary mirror, not the official publisher. - STALE THIRD-PARTY CLAIMS (both extractors flagged, NOT in current rule): several non-board sources (Florida Dental Association trade site, CE Broker-style summaries, aces4ce.com) claim a 12-hour carryover and a 12-hours-online-per-year / 24-per-biennium cap. Neither appears in the current 64B5-12.013/.018 text (eff. 11/30/2025); both extractors deliberately reported carryover=0 and no general online cap. Human should confirm the current rule supersedes these summaries. - SLUG MAPPING (agreed but imperfect): 'Prevention of medical errors' has no exact controlled-vocab slug; both mapped it to 'general'. HIV/AIDS mapped to 'infection_control' (course content includes sterilization/infection-control and infectious-disease instruction). - SEDATION-PERMIT ADD-ON (noted by Extractor B, out of base-license scope): sedation-permit holders have an additional 4-hr Medical Emergencies requirement under Ch. 64B5-14, outside the general 64B5-12.013 renewal rule; not applied to the base dentist license here. These are the published requirements as we read them, not legal or board advice, and CEChart does not certify compliance. Confirm your requirements with Florida Board of Dentistry (Florida Department of Health) before you rely on them.