Indiana State Board of Dentistry

Indiana dentist CE requirements

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

What the board requires

• 20 hrsTotal per biennial cycle.
• 2 hrsEthics, professional responsibility, and Indiana statutes and administrative rules governing the licensure and practice of dentists, counted within the total.
• Min 10 hrsAt least half of the 20 hours (a floor of 10 hours) must be from live presentations or live workshops.
• Up to 4 hrsNo more than 4 credit hours per license period from the dentist's own speech, lecture, or presentation.

Common questions

Source: Indiana State Board of Dentistry (https://www.in.gov/pla/professions/indiana-state-board-of-dentistry/continuing-education-information/). RECONCILIATION SUMMARY (Indiana US-IN dentist CE, hours requirement). (a) FULL AGREEMENT. Both blind extractors agree on the entire core numeric spine. Cycle is biennial / 24 months (dentist licenses expire March 1 of even-numbered years; IC 25-14-3-6 defines the license period as a recurring two-year period). Total requirement is 20 credit hours per license period. At least half (a 10-hour floor) must be from live presentations or live workshops, modeled as floorHours 10 on live_lecture + live_participation. One mandated subject topic: a single 2-hour course covering ethics, professional responsibility, and Indiana dental statutes/administrative rules (828 IAC 1-5-6), counted WITHIN the 20. No carryover (IC 25-14-3-8(b)). No standing CPR/BLS credential is imposed on the general dentist renewal, so requiredCredentials is empty. Both agree excludedFormats is empty. (b) WITHIN vs ADDITIVE. The ethics/jurisprudence topic is WITHIN. Board rule 828 IAC 1-5-6(a) reads "continuing education credit must include two (2) hours which shall cover each of the following subjects," i.e., the 2 hours are a subset that must be included in the 20-hour total, not hours on top of it. Both extractors and Board/PLA guidance treat this as one combined 2-hour block covering all three listed subjects (not 2 hours per subject). Mapped to the closest controlled slug, ethics_jurisprudence. (c) WHY FLAGGED (flagged_ambiguous). (1) No LIVE PRIMARY source was fetched. Both extractors report that the primary Indiana General Assembly code site (iga.in.gov) and the Indiana PLA page (in.gov/pla) were JavaScript-rendered and returned no text, and Justia returned HTTP 403. All quoted text comes from secondary mirrors (ADA Laws-and-Rules PDF, FindLaw codes.findlaw.com, Cornell LII law.cornell.edu). (2) Provider acceptance disagreement. (3) Teaching cap present in only one extraction. Any one of these forces flagged_ambiguous; a human must confirm against the primary .gov code and Board CE page before go-live. Language was reported consistent across multiple mirrors, but no primary source was actually read. RESOLVED DISAGREEMENTS. - PROVIDER: Extractor A claimed accepts = [state_approved, CERP, PACE] with strict = false; Extractor B claimed accepts = [state_approved] with strict = true. Neither retrieved the primary approved-organizations section (IC 25-14-3-2). A's own supporting quote only names approved ORGANIZATIONS (ADA, AGD, National Dental Hygiene Association), which does not itself establish automatic ADA-CERP / AGD-PACE recognition. Adopted the conservative, better-supported position: accepts = [state_approved], strict = true (courses must be approved by an approved organization per IC 25-14-3-4). CERP/PACE auto-acceptance is plausible in practice but UNVERIFIED here. - TEACHING CAP: Extractor A included a 4-hour ceiling on the dentist's own speech/lecture/presentation (teaching format) per IC 25-14-3-9(3)(E), sourced to the ADA PDF mirror; Extractor B did not place it in formatCaps. It is a genuine statutory cap and does not collide with the live-floor partition (teaching is a distinct format code from live_lecture/live_participation), so it was RETAINED. Sourced to a single mirror only. CAPS NOT REPRESENTABLE IN SCHEMA (recorded here only). Both extractors note IC 25-14-3-8(c) caps practice-management courses at 5 hours toward the 20. "Practice management" has no slug in either the controlled subject vocabulary or the format vocabulary, so it could not be encoded in topics or formatCaps. Human reviewer should track it separately. ITEMS DELIBERATELY EXCLUDED FROM THE SPINE. (1) Opioid / controlled-substance prescribing CE attaches to a separate controlled-substance-registration track, not the general dental license CE; Extractor A further notes the former 2-hour opioid CE no longer applies to registration applications submitted after July 1, 2025. (2) A 5-hour anesthesia CE requirement applies only to holders of a general anesthesia / deep sedation / conscious sedation permit, not to a general dentist license. (3) CPR/BLS renewal rule 828 IAC 1-6-1 references the hygienist statute (IC 25-13-1-8), not dentists; a current CPR course is required for initial licensure (828 IAC 1-1-1) but not as a standing renewal credential, so requiredCredentials is empty. (4) CE is not required from a dentist who has held an initial license for less than 2 years (IC 25-14-3-1). No infection control, medical emergencies, human trafficking, implicit bias, child abuse, or radiography CE is mandated for the general dentist license by the sources reviewed. EXTRACTION FLAGS (human must check). 1. SOURCE QUALITY: No live primary .gov source fetched; all quotes from secondary mirrors (ADA PDF, FindLaw, Cornell LII). Confirm the 20 hours, the 10-hour live floor, and the 828 IAC 1-5-6 ethics block against iga.in.gov and the Indiana PLA CE page. 2. PROVIDER: CERP/PACE auto-acceptance and the strict flag are unresolved (A: accept CERP/PACE, non-strict; B: state_approved, strict). Reconciler adopted conservative state_approved + strict. Verify against IC 25-14-3-2. 3. TEACHING CAP: The 4-hour teaching ceiling (IC 25-14-3-9(3)(E)) came from one extractor and one mirror only. Confirm the figure and citation. 4. PRACTICE-MANAGEMENT CAP: The 5-hour cap (IC 25-14-3-8(c)) is not encodable in this schema; track separately. 5. ETHICS BLOCK INTERPRETATION: Confirm with the Board that the mandate is one combined 2-hour course covering all three subjects, not 2 hours per subject. This is an hours requirement extraction and is not verified or guaranteed complete. These are the published requirements as we read them, not legal or board advice, and CEChart does not certify compliance. Confirm your requirements with Indiana State Board of Dentistry before you rely on them.