Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Division of Professional Regulation / Board of Dentistry - 68 Ill. Adm. Code Part 1220, § 1220.440 (rules implementing the Illinois Dental Practice Act, 225 ILCS 25)

Illinois dentist CE requirements

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

What the board requires

• 48 hrsTotal per triennial (36-month prerenewal period preceding September 30 of the renewal year; dentist licenses renew every 3 years) cycle.
• 1 hrsCultural competency training (once every 6 years), counted within the total.
• 1 hrsImplicit bias awareness training (per renewal period) - DISPUTED between extractors, counted within the total.
• 3 hrsSafe opioid prescribing practices (Controlled Substances Registration holders) (if prescribers who hold an illinois controlled substances registration (csr)), counted within the total.
• 9 hrsSedation/anesthesia CE (Permit A or Permit B holders) (if dentists holding a sedation/anesthesia permit a or permit b), counted within the total.
• Up to 24 hrsCorrespondence courses capped at 50% of required hours (max 24 of 48).
• Up to 24 hrsTeaching CE courses capped at 50% of required hours (max 24 of 48).
• RequiredCurrent Basic Life Support (BLS) certification - DISPUTED (Extractor A: mandatory at every renewal per Jan 23, 2023 amendment, 47 Ill. Reg. 1672; Extractor B: NOT required for general renewal, BLS training only counts as up to 4 CE hours) (does not count toward CE hours).

Common questions

Source: Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Division of Professional Regulation / Board of Dentistry - 68 Ill. Adm. Code Part 1220, § 1220.440 (rules implementing the Illinois Dental Practice Act, 225 ILCS 25) (https://www.ilga.gov/commission/jcar/admincode/068/068012200D04400R.html). PROPOSAL ONLY - nothing verified; human (Brian) signs off later. AGREED NUMERIC SPINE: 36-month triennial cycle; 48 total hours; 0 carryover; providers strict via enumerated approved-sponsor regime with PACE/CERP effectively qualifying through named ADA/AGD umbrella bodies. All mandated topics count WITHIN the 48 (both extractors agree, no 'additive' topic; IDFPR: 'Credit hours completed to meet the legislative mandates ... may be applied towards the total number of CE hours'). Format caps agreed: correspondence 50% (24h), teaching 50% (24h), volunteer oral-health 2h. WHY FLAGGED: (1) primary code source is stale (2016 text) and does not contain the current topic mandates; (2) opioid/sedation/BLS rest on ISDS secondary source only; (3) implicit bias - A says not required, B says required; (4) BLS - A says mandatory credential, B says not required; (5) opioid oneTime flag differs; (6) sexual harassment has no vocab slug. Any one of these forces flagged_ambiguous. BLS 4-HOUR CE CAP (not modeled as a format): 'Basic Life Support certification training taken as a requirement of this Section shall be counted for no more than 4 hours during each licensure period towards the continuing education hours' (ISDS). Whether BLS is a mandatory credential is itself disputed (see flags). ITEMS BOTH EXTRACTORS AGREE ARE NOT REQUIRED FOR DENTISTS: Alzheimer's/dementia training (A). NEXT STEP EXTRACTION FLAGS (why this is not yet verified): - PRIMARY SOURCE STALE: The authoritative ilga.gov §1220.440 individual-section HTML page (and the Cornell LII mirror) serve the 2016 version of the rule (source note: 'Amended at 40 Ill. Reg. 12553, effective September 2, 2016') and contain NO BLS, opioid, sedation, sexual-harassment, implicit-bias, or cultural-competency language. §1220.440 was amended effective Jan 23, 2023 (47 Ill. Reg. 1672). Current topic details were therefore NOT independently verified verbatim from the primary code. - SECONDARY-ONLY SOURCING: The opioid (3h), sedation (9h), and BLS-4h-cap figures rest on the Illinois State Dental Society (ISDS, isds.org - secondary/industry) only; neither extractor confirmed them verbatim from the primary administrative code. Treat as medium confidence pending primary confirmation. - DISAGREEMENT - implicit bias: Extractor A asserts implicit bias CE is NOT required for dentists (says the mandate applies to other health professions); Extractor B includes it as a mandatory 1h/renewal with a verbatim IDFPR quote. Included in assembled doc but UNRESOLVED. - DISAGREEMENT - BLS credential: Extractor A treats a current BLS certification as a mandatory renewal credential (2023 amendment); Extractor B states no standalone BLS card is required for general licensure (BLS only counts as up to 4 CE hours). Included in requiredCredentials but UNRESOLVED. - DISAGREEMENT - opioid oneTime flag: Extractor A marked the 3h safe-opioid requirement oneTime:true; Extractor B marked it oneTime:false (per-cycle). Assembled as oneTime:false (per-cycle) pending confirmation. - NO CONTROLLED-VOCAB SLUG: Sexual harassment prevention (1h/cycle, a genuine Illinois mandate counting within the 48) has no matching compliance-topic subject slug; included with empty subjects[]. Extractor A omitted it entirely. - DISAGREEMENT - correspondence cap scope: Extractor B maps the 50% correspondence cap to also cover online_selfstudy + self_instruction; Extractor A (and the verbatim primary text, which says only 'correspondence courses') limits it to correspondence. Assembled conservatively as correspondence only. - BLS 4-HOUR CE CAP NOT MODELED as a formatCap: 'BLS certification training shall be counted for no more than 4 hours during each licensure period.' BLS training is a credential activity, not a controlled-vocab format code, so it is captured in notes rather than formatCaps. Extractor B had encoded it as a formatCap with empty formats[]. - MINOR - volunteer oral-health cap format tag: Extractor A tagged the 2h volunteer cap as 'teaching'; Extractor B left formats empty. Assembled as 'teaching'. These are the published requirements as we read them, not legal or board advice, and CEChart does not certify compliance. Confirm your requirements with Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Division of Professional Regulation / Board of Dentistry - 68 Ill. Adm. Code Part 1220, § 1220.440 (rules implementing the Illinois Dental Practice Act, 225 ILCS 25) before you rely on them.