Kentucky Board of Dentistry

Kentucky dentist CE requirements

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

What the board requires

• 30 hrsTotal per biennial cycle.
• 3 hrsKASPER, pain management, or addiction disorders (required for dentists authorized to prescribe controlled substances); 1.5 hours per year or 3 hours per two-year cycle, counted within the total.
• Min 10 hrsMinimum hours in live interactive presentation format.
• RequiredCPR certification meeting or exceeding American Heart Association guidelines, maintained with no more than a 30-day lapse; does not count toward the 30 CE hours (does not count toward CE hours).

Common questions

Source: Kentucky Board of Dentistry (https://dentistry.ky.gov/Continuing-Education/Pages/default.aspx). RECONCILIATION SUMMARY (adversarial reconcile of two blind extractors, A and B). This is an hours requirement summary for renewing an active general dentist license, not a verified or complete legal determination. Primary source: 201 KAR 8:532 (Licensure of dentists) via the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission (apps.legislature.ky.gov), cross-checked against the official Kentucky Board of Dentistry CE page (dentistry.ky.gov). A live PRIMARY/official-code URL, not a mirror-only source. All citations carry verified=false; a human operator must sign off before this state goes live. (a) FULL AGREEMENT. A and B independently agree on the entire numeric spine: biennial 24-month cycle (licenses expire Dec 31 of odd-numbered years); 30 total hours; one mandated subject topic of 3 hours per cycle (1.5 hours per year) in KASPER (Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting System) use, pain management, or addiction disorders, mapped to the controlled-vocabulary slug opioid_pain (closest fit for a controlled-substance/pain topic), counting within; a 10-hour floor in live interactive presentation format; no excluded formats; carryover 0; and CPR as a non-counting required credential. Board name/URL and cycle metadata are identical. (b) WITHIN vs ADDITIVE. Resolved to WITHIN. The Board CE page states the controlled-substance hours may be included in the 30 required hours and are not additional hours, confirming the 3 hours are a subset (floor inside the total), not on top. Both extractors concur; no ambiguity remains on this point. (c) WHY FLAGGED (flagged_ambiguous, not extracted_agree). (1) PROVIDER DISAGREEMENT: Extractor A set accepts to state_approved plus CERP and PACE but explicitly conceded CERP/PACE were NOT verbatim-confirmed from the primary regulation. Extractor B set accepts to state_approved only. Adopted B's conservative value because the better-sourced reading governs; accreditor acceptance is under-specified in the reviewed regulation, which defines acceptable CE by content relevance rather than by naming CERP/PACE. (2) LIVE-FORMAT MAPPING AMBIGUITY: the 10-hour floor is on a live interactive presentation format. The word interactive points to live_participation (adopted), but presentation could be read as live_lecture. A human should confirm the intended format code. (3) CONDITIONAL TRIGGER: the controlled-substance topic applies to dentists authorized to prescribe controlled substances, so it is effectively but not universally mandatory. (4) Content-category rules could not be encoded in the delivery-format schema (see flags). (5) All citations verified=false; the primary source was read but not human-verified. EXTRACTION FLAGS (every disagreement or source-quality concern for a human reviewer): - Provider accreditation acceptance: A claimed CERP/PACE, B did not; adopted state_approved only. Verify whether the Board accepts ADA CERP / AGD PACE providers and re-encode if confirmed. - Live-format code: live_participation vs live_lecture for the 10-hour live interactive presentation floor. - Controlled-substance topic is conditional on prescribing/controlled-substance authority, not a flat all-licensees mandate. - CONTENT-CATEGORY RULES NOT ENCODED: the regulation requires at least 20 of the 30 hours to be clinical skills/knowledge, and caps at a maximum of 10 hours total the non-clinical categories (office business operations/practice management, volunteer clinical charitable dentistry, and dental association/society business meetings). These are content/activity-type categories, not any of the 7 delivery-format codes, so they are documented here rather than forced into formatCaps or excludedFormats. If represented: minimum 20 clinical hours; maximum 10 non-clinical hours. - Regulation section numbering differs between extractors (B cites specific Section 9/Section 10 subsections; A cites 201 KAR 8:532 generally). Confirm exact subsection citations against the live text. - OUT OF SCOPE: sedation/anesthesia permit holders have a separate requirement of roughly 4 hours of clinical sedation CE per cycle (plus current ACLS and/or PALS). Permit-specific, outside the base general-dentist license spine; not included above. No em-dashes used. All citations retrievedAt 2026-07-18, verified=false. These are the published requirements as we read them, not legal or board advice, and CEChart does not certify compliance. Confirm your requirements with Kentucky Board of Dentistry before you rely on them.