Kansas Dental Board

Kansas dentist CE requirements

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

What the board requires

• 60 hrsTotal per biennial cycle.
• 2 hrsEthics (at least 2 of the 60 hours), counted within the total.
• Up to 10 hrsLecturing/presenting/teaching credit capped at 10 hours (regulation says annually; cycle is 24 months - see EXTRACTION FLAGS).
• Up to 20 hrsAuthorship credit capped: 10 hours per article, 20 hours per book (ceiling set to 20).
• RequiredCurrent AHA Basic Cardiac Life Support for the Health Care Provider certificate (or board-approved equivalent) must be submitted with each renewal. Per K.A.R. 71-4-1 the BLS course hours MAY be applied toward the 60-hour CE total, so unlike most states these hours are not strictly non-counting; the certificate itself remains a mandatory credential. (does not count toward CE hours).

Common questions

Source: Kansas Dental Board (https://www.dental.ks.gov/dentists/license-renewals). RECONCILIATION SUMMARY (Kansas dentist CE hours requirement). (a) FULL AGREEMENT. Both blind extractors agree on the spine core: 24-month (biennial) cycle; 60 total CE hours; at least 2 hours in ethics (mapped to ethics_jurisprudence, counting within); no carryover (maxHours 0); provider accepts state_approved; and a current AHA Basic Cardiac Life Support for the Health Care Provider certificate (or board-approved equivalent) is a mandatory credential placed in requiredCredentials (not a topic). Both used the law.cornell.edu secondary mirror because the primary board page (dental.ks.gov) returned HTTP 403. (b) WITHIN vs ADDITIVE. Ethics is within, not additive. K.A.R. 71-4-1: "at least 60 hours of continuing education courses that qualify for credit. At least two of these hours shall be in ethics." The phrase "two of these hours" makes ethics a subset/floor inside the 60, so counting = within. (c) WHY FLAGGED. reviewStatus = flagged_ambiguous because: (i) every quote comes from the law.cornell.edu mirror, not a live primary .gov or official Kansas Administrative Regulations source (dental.ks.gov returned 403), so a human must reconfirm against the primary code; (ii) the teaching cap is worded "annually" while the cycle is 24 months, leaving the per-cycle teaching ceiling ambiguous; (iii) provider strictness is a judgment call. Per hard rule the status can never be verified_live and all citations remain verified:false. (d) RECONCILER-BROKEN DISAGREEMENTS. To break three genuine ties I re-fetched the Cornell mirror of K.A.R. 71-4-1 and 71-4-2. - formatCaps: Extractor A found none; Extractor B found two in K.A.R. 71-4-2. Re-fetch CONFIRMED B, so B is ADOPTED. Teaching: "Any licensee may receive a maximum of 10 hours of credit annually for any combination of lecturing, presenting papers or clinics or teaching subjects related to dentistry and dental hygiene" gives a teaching cap ceiling of 10. Authorship: "10 hours for any single article; 20 hours for any book" gives a publication cap ceiling of 20. Each of the two format codes appears in exactly one cap (partition respected). - BLS hour counting: A said the BLS course hours MAY be applied to the CE total; B said they do NOT count. Re-fetch of K.A.R. 71-4-1 shows A is CORRECT: "The continuing education hours for either certificate may be applied to the continuing education requirement." The certificate remains a mandatory credential (kept in requiredCredentials, NOT a topic), but its hours are permitted to count toward the 60, so it is not strictly non-counting. Adopted A's description. - provider.strict: A set false, B set true. K.A.R. 71-4-2 enumerates a closed list of approved sponsor types (colleges/universities; ADA/NDA and their component and constituent societies; ADHA/NDHA and components; board-recognized academies and specialty organizations; local society meetings; study clubs; VA and armed-forces programs) and subjects home study to "prior review and determination of the allowable hours of credit by the board." Because approval flows from a board-recognized enumerated list rather than an open "any accredited provider" rule, B (strict true) is ADOPTED. CERP and PACE are not named in the regulation. EXTRACTION FLAGS (human reviewer must check): 1. SOURCE: All values sourced to the law.cornell.edu mirror; dental.ks.gov returned HTTP 403. Reconfirm 60 hours, 2 ethics, 24-month period, format caps, and BLS language against the primary official Kansas Administrative Regulations / board text before go-live. 2. TEACHING CAP TIMING: regulation says "10 hours annually" but the cycle is 24 months. Ceiling recorded as 10 (the literal annual figure); the effective per-biennium ceiling may be 20. Confirm the intended per-cycle value. 3. PROVIDER STRICTNESS: strict set true based on the enumerated approved-sponsor list. Confirm whether Kansas in practice accepts any CERP/PACE provider, which would argue strict false. 4. BLS COUNTING: recorded that BLS course hours MAY be applied to the 60-hour total, and that the certificate must be submitted at each renewal. Confirm both. 5. FIRST-RENEWAL PRORATION: Extractor A noted some third-party summaries claim a first-renewal proration (about 30 hours); not found in the retrieved regulation text. Verify for new licensees. 6. SPECIALIST 40-of-60: specialist-certificate holders must earn 40 of the 60 hours in their specialty; not applicable to general dentists and not encoded (does not map to the controlled subject or format vocabularies). Noted for completeness. 7. STALE WORDING: Extractor B flagged residual "annual renewal" language in 71-4-2 that may conflict with the current biennial statute (K.S.A. 65-1431). Confirm the current cycle text. This is an hours requirement extraction; it is not verified and is not claimed to be 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 Kansas Dental Board before you rely on them.