Oklahoma Board of Dentistry

Oklahoma dentist CE requirements

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

What the board requires

• 40 hrsTotal per biennial cycle.
• 2 hrsOpioid and scheduled drug prescribing class, counted within the total.
• 1 hrsEthics class approved by the Board (no statutory hour count; figure is a conservative floor placeholder), counted within the total.
• Up to 20 hrsOnline / non-interactive remote study (no more than 20 of the 40 hours online).
• Up to 20 hrsPublishing, presenting, and lecturing (no more than 50% of required hours).
• RequiredLive, in-person BLS/CPR class approved by the Board with hands-on compression, required each 2-year cycle (full-online CPR not accepted; note: unlike most states its hours COUNT toward the 40-hour total) (does not count toward CE hours).

Common questions

Source: Oklahoma Board of Dentistry (https://oklahoma.gov/dentistry/continuing-education.html). RECONCILIATION SUMMARY (US-OK dentist CE hours requirement; not verified, not guaranteed complete). (a) FULL AGREEMENT between both blind extractors: biennial cycle (24 months); 40 total hours; a 2-hour opioid/scheduled-drug prescribing component counting within the 40; a 20-hour online cap (no more than 20 of the 40 hours online); provider acceptance of state_approved plus ADA CERP and AGD PACE with strict=false; no carryover/rollover of excess hours; and a live, in-person BLS/CPR certification requirement with hands-on compression (full-online CPR not accepted). Both also flagged the same underlying ambiguities. (b) WITHIN vs ADDITIVE: all encoded topics are 'within' (a floor inside the 40, not on top of it). Board wording supports within-total counting: the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry CE page states the 40-hour total 'should include your BLS and Ethics,' which confirms ethics (and BLS/CPR) count inside the 40 rather than being additional. Statute 59 O.S. 328.41 frames the opioid class as part of the 40, not on top. No topic is additive. (c) WHY FLAGGED (flagged_ambiguous, not extracted_agree): several unresolved items and mixed source quality. (1) Ethics hour count is unsourced and the extractors disagree: A=2, B=1. The statute and the Board mandate 'an ethics class approved by the Board' but state NO numeric hour value, so the reconciled figure of 1 is a conservative floor placeholder, NOT a sourced number. (2) Opioid oneTime-vs-recurring is genuinely ambiguous: statute D.4 ties the 2 hours to a newly licensed dentist 'within one (1) year of obtaining licensure' (one-time for new licensees), but the Board CE page lists it under the current cycle, so recurrence for established licensees is unconfirmed; encoded oneTime=true per the statute trigger, flagged. (3) BLS/CPR counting nuance: Oklahoma counts the BLS/CPR hours toward the 40 (atypical). It is modeled in requiredCredentials because its defining regulatory character is a mandatory live certification, but a reviewer may alternatively model it as a within-total medical_emergencies topic. (4) Source quality is mixed and partly stale: the numeric spine rests on 59 O.S. 328.41 read through secondary consolidations (extractor A used the ADA 'Oklahoma Laws & Rules' consolidation dated 30 Nov 2025; extractor B used the Justia mirror for the online-cap and provider text), plus the official oksenate.gov Title 59 PDF which PREDATES the post-2019 online-cap and live-CPR amendments, plus the official Oklahoma Board CE page. The former Administrative Code detail rules (OAC 195:25-1-3 through 195:25-1-7) were REVOKED (effective 9/11/2023) and OAC 195:25-1-2 now only points to 59 O.S. 328.41, so the statute is the operative numeric source but was not read from a single live primary URL (OSCN). (5) CERP/PACE provider acceptance is INFERRED, not verbatim from a primary source. (d) EXTRACTION FLAGS (a human reviewer must verify each against the live primary statute 59 O.S. 328.41 on OSCN and the Oklahoma Board CE page before go-live): 1. Ethics hours: no statutory number exists; reconciled to 1 (conservative floor). Extractor A said 2, B said 1. Confirm whether any Board policy sets a minimum, or treat as 'any Board-approved ethics class' of unspecified length. 2. Opioid oneTime vs recurring: statute D.4 says 'within one (1) year of obtaining licensure' (one-time for new licensees); Board page lists it under the current cycle. Confirm whether established (non-new) licensees must repeat it each cycle. 3. Online cap scope: the reconciled cap groups online_selfstudy + self_instruction + correspondence under the single 20-hour 'online' ceiling (extractor A's broader grouping). The statute's literal word is only 'online' and extractor B capped online_selfstudy alone. Confirm whether self_instruction and correspondence are included, and note interactive/webinar classes 'may, at the discretion of the Board, count as in-person.' 4. Teaching/publishing cap: encoded from extractor A only (statute category limiting publishing/presenting/lecturing to 50% of required hours = 20, with a 6-credit-per-hour-of-original-presentation multiplier). Extractor B did not encode this cap. Confirm the 50% cap and the multiplier. 5. CERP/PACE acceptance: inferred, not primary-sourced. Confirm on the Board CE page / CE Broker. 6. Source staleness: the oksenate.gov Title 59 PDF predates the online-cap and live-CPR amendments; the ADA consolidation and Justia are secondary mirrors. Re-verify current statute text on OSCN (primary). 7. BLS/CPR counting: verify the hours count toward the 40 (Board: total 'should include your BLS'). Statute activity caps NOT encoded as formatCaps because they are activity-type limits that do not map to the 7 delivery-format codes: uncompensated volunteer work not to exceed 7 hours; practice-management courses not to exceed 4 hours for a dentist. CE is reported through CE Broker (cebroker.com) as of July 1, 2025; the current reporting period per the Board is July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027. The license renews annually while CE reporting is biennial. This is an hours requirement summary; it 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 Oklahoma Board of Dentistry before you rely on them.