Nevada State Board of Dental Examiners

Nevada dentist CE requirements

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

What the board requires

• 40 hrsTotal per biennial cycle.
• 30 hrsClinical subjects (minimum floor within total), counted within the total.
• 4 hrsInfection control (clinical subject, floor within total), counted within the total.
• 2 hrsControlled substances misuse/abuse, opioid prescribing or addiction (CONDITIONAL: only dentists registered to dispense controlled substances), counted within the total.
• 4 hrsMedical consequences of an act of terrorism (ONE-TIME, within 2 years after initial licensure; slug approximation), counted within the total.
• Up to 20 hrsHome, on-line, self and journal study (correspondence, webinar, CD or DVD) jointly capped at 50 percent of required hours, i.e. 20 of 40 biennial hours.
• RequiredCurrent CPR/BLS certification (or another medically acceptable means of maintaining basic bodily functions which support life) must be maintained; not counted as CE hours (does not count toward CE hours).

Common questions

Source: Nevada State Board of Dental Examiners (https://dental.nv.gov/). RECONCILIATION SUMMARY (US-NV dentist, active general license). This is an hours requirement summary, not verified or guaranteed complete; a human operator must sign off before go-live. (a) WHAT FULLY AGREES. Both blind extractors independently agree on the entire numeric spine: biennial 24-month cycle; totalHours 40; clinical-subjects floor 30 (within); infection-control floor 4 (within); conditional controlled-substances/opioid item 2 (within); self-study/online/correspondence cap at 50 percent = 20 hours biennially; excludedFormats empty; provider accepts state_approved + CERP + PACE with strict=false; carryover 0; and current CPR/BLS held as a required credential that does NOT count as CE hours. Board is the Nevada State Board of Dental Examiners (the www vs non-www URL difference is cosmetic). All of these adopted as agreed. (b) WITHIN vs ADDITIVE RESOLUTION. All subject topics are marked counting=within (floors carved out of the 40, not additive on top). NAC 631.173(1) sets the 40-hour biennial total; NAC 631.175 then requires that "at least 30 hours" of that be clinical subjects and "at least 4 hours" be infection control - the word "at least ... of" phrasing signals a subset floor, not an add-on. The 2-hour controlled-substances item is likewise satisfied inside the general total (NRS 631.344 permits it to count toward the CE requirement), so within. No board text states any of these hours are on top of the 40, so nothing is marked additive. (c) WHY FLAGGED. reviewStatus = flagged_ambiguous for four reasons: (1) the 2-hour controlled-substances/opioid topic is CONDITIONAL - it applies ONLY to dentists registered to dispense controlled substances under NRS 453.231, not to every general dentist; (2) two controlled-vocabulary slug approximations - "clinical subjects" mapped to general, and the "medical consequences of an act of terrorism" one-time course mapped to medical_emergencies (neither has a dedicated slug); (3) an annual-vs-biennial accounting split - NAC 631.173(1) states the requirement two ways (20 hrs annual OR 40 hrs biennial), and per NRS 631.330 only limited/restricted licenses (NRS 631.271, 631.2715, 631.275) renew annually at proportional half-values while all other (standard active) licenses renew biennially; this doc uses the biennial 40-hour spine for a standard active general dentist; (4) every citation carries verified=false and was not independently re-fetched. EXTRACTION FLAGS (human reviewer must check): 1. TERRORISM ONE-TIME TOPIC - MODELING DISAGREEMENT + MIRROR SOURCE. Extractor A listed the NRS 631.342 "medical consequences of an act of terrorism" course as a oneTime topic (4 hrs, within 2 years after initial licensure); Extractor B omitted it from topics and mentioned it in notes only, arguing it is an initial-licensure item outside the recurring renewal spine and that no primary verbatim text was fetched. Reconciler INCLUDED it as oneTime=true because it is a genuine mandated CE course, but flags that: its 4-hour figure and its NRS 631.342 quote were sourced by A to nevada.public.law, a SECONDARY MIRROR, not the primary leg.state.nv.us NRS text; Basic or Core Disaster Life Support is reportedly an accepted alternative; and medical_emergencies is only the closest-fit slug. Verify hour count, exact statute text, and applicability on the primary NRS Chapter 631 page. 2. OPIOID TRIGGER SCOPE. Confirm the 2-hour controlled-substances requirement (NAC 631.175(5); NRS 631.344) applies only to controlled-substance registrants and is NOT a universal requirement, and that it counts within the 40. 3. SLUG APPROXIMATIONS. clinical_subjects -> general and terrorism -> medical_emergencies are best-fit mappings, not exact vocabulary matches. 4. ANNUAL/BIENNIAL SUBTYPE. Confirm the target license subtype; limited/restricted licenses renew annually at half-values (20 total / 15 clinical / 2 infection control). 5. UNEXTRACTED SUB-CAPS. Extractor B noted additional minor NAC 631.175(6) sub-caps not cleanly mapped to the 7 activity-format codes and therefore recorded only in prose: approved group study max 3 hours; dental society meeting/convention 1 hour per meeting up to 3 hours; approved nonprofit volunteer services max 6 hours (max 3 per day). Teaching, table-clinic, and publication sub-caps were not fully extracted by either party. Verify before relying on format accounting. 6. SBIRT. Extractor A explicitly notes there is NO separate one-time SBIRT requirement in the primary code - some third-party summaries (e.g., NetCE) conflate the recurring 2-hour opioid item with a one-time SBIRT course and reference an outdated per-course home-study cap that the current 50 percent rule replaced. Do not add an SBIRT topic without primary-source confirmation. 7. SOURCE FRESHNESS. All NAC/NRS citations point to leg.state.nv.us (primary) except the terrorism item (nevada.public.law mirror). None were re-fetched during reconciliation; all remain 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 Nevada State Board of Dental Examiners before you rely on them.