Missouri Dental Board (Division 2110, Department of Commerce and Insurance)

Missouri dentist CE requirements

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

What the board requires

• 50 hrsTotal per biennial cycle.
• 40 hrsDirect patient-care (clinical) hours floor - not less than 40 of the 50 total, counted within the total.
• Up to 16 hrsTeaching/presentation credit cap (up to 16 hours per year; 2 hours per hour of original presentation, hour-for-hour for repeats).
• RequiredCurrent BLS or ACLS (or equivalent) certification must be held at renewal; does NOT count as CE hours (does not count toward CE hours).

Common questions

Source: Missouri Dental Board (Division 2110, Department of Commerce and Insurance) (https://dentalboard.mo.gov/). RECONCILIATION SUMMARY (US-MO dentist, hours requirement under 20 CSR 2110-2.240; renewal rule 20 CSR 2110-2.071). (a) WHAT FULLY AGREES: Both extractors agree on the numeric spine core: biennial cycle (lengthMonths 24), totalHours 50 CE hours per 2-year block, carryover maxHours 25 for dentists, provider accepts state_approved + CERP + PACE with strict=true (CE must come from a board-approved sponsor drawn from an enumerated list that includes ADA and constituents, AGD, ADA CERP, and AGD PACE, plus a board catch-all), and excludedFormats empty (no delivery format - self-study, online, correspondence - is excluded or capped by the rule). Both also agree the rule mandates NO specific named subject topics: there is no infection control, opioid/controlled-substance, ethics/jurisprudence, medical emergencies, child abuse, human trafficking, implicit bias, or radiography CE mandate in 20 CSR 2110-2.240. The federal DEA MATE Act one-time 8-hour opioid/substance-use-disorder training is a federal DEA registration condition, NOT a Missouri board CE mandate, and is intentionally excluded. A third-party summary claim of a "3-hour opioid prescribing" mandate was found in NEITHER primary nor mirror regulation text and is treated as unsupported. (b) WITHIN vs ADDITIVE RESOLUTION: The one modeled topic is the 40-hour clinical floor. Board wording (20 CSR 2110-2.240(2)): "Of the fifty (50) hours required for dentists, not less than forty (40) must be hours directly related to the updating and maintaining of knowledge and skills in the treatment, health, and safety of the individual dental patient." This is a subset floor carved out of the 50-hour total (40 clinical + up to 10 management), NOT hours on top of the total, so counting = "within". It is a clinical-vs-management category split, not a named subject, so it maps to the closest controlled-vocabulary slug "general" rather than any specific subject slug. Extractor A left topics empty (treating it as a non-topic content floor); Extractor B modeled it as a within/general topic and expressly invited the reconciler to prefer topics:[]. Resolved toward MODELING it (B's approach) to preserve the 40-hour numeric constraint, which would otherwise be lost. (c) WHY FLAGGED (flagged_ambiguous, not extracted_agree): (1) requiredCredentials was a direct A-vs-B disagreement (see EXTRACTION FLAGS); (2) the 40-hour floor within/general modeling is a judgment call the extractors split on; (3) the publication cap exists only in a proposed amendment and its effective status is unconfirmed; (4) the teaching cap ceiling is stated "per year" inside a 2-year cycle, an awkward unit the schema cannot fully express; (5) every quote is sourced to a mirror (law.cornell.edu) or to a dci.mo.gov PDF that is a PROPOSED AMENDMENT reproducing only subsection (2); the full current rule on a live, machine-readable primary .gov page was NOT parseable in-session (the sos.mo.gov consolidated PDF returned binary and could not be read). No field is confirmed against live primary machine-readable text, so extracted_agree is not permissible. reviewStatus is flagged_ambiguous. It is never verified_live; a human operator must sign off. EXTRACTION FLAGS (human reviewer must check each): 1. BLS/ACLS credential CONFLICT - RESOLVED toward A. A cited 20 CSR 2110-2.071 with the direct quote that renewal is contingent on holding current BLS or ACLS (or equivalent). B asserted, without a counter-quote, that CPR/BLS is required only for sedation/anesthesia permit holders and left requiredCredentials empty. Reconciler ran an independent search: Cornell LII and Justia both independently reproduce A's renewal-contingency language verbatim, so the credential IS required at renewal and is placed in requiredCredentials (it does NOT count as CE hours). VERIFY against primary sos.mo.gov / dci.mo.gov text and confirm B's "sedation-only" reading is stale. 2. 40-hour clinical floor modeled as topic (within, subject "general"). Confirm the reviewer wants this preserved as a topic vs. dropped to topics:[]; the slug "general" is a closest-fit for a clinical/management category split, not a named board subject. 3. Teaching cap ceiling is "up to sixteen (16) hours PER YEAR" - i.e., potentially up to 32 hours across the 2-year cycle. ceilingHours is recorded as 16 (per-year figure) because the schema has no per-year field. Confirm intended interpretation. 4. Publication cap (7 hours per reporting period) OMITTED from formatCaps. It appears ONLY in a proposed amendment (20 CSR 2110-2.240(2)(I)) filed March 20, 2025, effective status unconfirmed. Excluded to avoid asserting a restriction that may not be in force; add it if the amendment is confirmed adopted. Note: teaching and publication are distinct format codes, so adding a publication cap would not violate the format-partition rule. 5. SOURCE PROVENANCE - all citations are mirror-only or proposed-amendment PDF. The teaching cap and provider sponsor list come from law.cornell.edu (LII). The total, carryover, and clinical-floor quotes come from a dci.mo.gov PDF that is a proposed amendment reproducing subsection (2) only. Re-verify every quote against the full current official rule. 6. Cross-reference quirk: renewal rule 20 CSR 2110-2.071 cites "20 CSR 2110-2.040" for CE hours, but the operative continuing-education rule is 20 CSR 2110-2.240. Treat 2.040 as a citation artifact; confirm. 7. Reporting block dates: renewal period runs Dec 1 to Nov 30 with licenses expiring Nov 30 of even-numbered years (current block approx 12/1/2024-11/30/2026 per aggregators). Confirm against the primary renewal rule. 8. Board identity: two board URLs were offered (pr.mo.gov/dental.asp from A; dentalboard.mo.gov from B). Adopted dentalboard.mo.gov as the more current board portal; verify the live canonical URL. These are the published requirements as we read them, not legal or board advice, and CEChart does not certify compliance. Confirm your requirements with Missouri Dental Board (Division 2110, Department of Commerce and Insurance) before you rely on them.