South Dakota State Board of Dentistry

South Dakota dentist CE requirements

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

What the board requires

• 100 hrsTotal per quinquennial (5-year CE licensure cycle; license renewed annually by July 1) cycle.
• Up to 30 hrsHome study / self-directed continuing education.
• RequiredCurrent Healthcare Provider level CPR/BLS card must be maintained as a condition of renewal (AHA Healthcare Provider BLS, American Red Cross Professional Rescuer, or board-approved equivalent, with a hands-on skills assessment); the card itself does not count as CE hours (does not count toward CE hours).

Common questions

Source: South Dakota State Board of Dentistry (https://www.sdboardofdentistry.org/). RECONCILIATION SUMMARY (US-SD dentist CE, hours requirement). (a) FULL AGREEMENT. Extractor A and Extractor B agree on the entire numeric spine. Cycle = 60 months (5-year licensure cycle; the license is renewed annually by July 1 but CE is measured over the 5-year cycle). totalHours = 100. topics = empty (no mandated subject topic for a general dentist: no ethics/jurisprudence, infection control, opioid/controlled-substance, or medical-emergency requirement). formatCaps = a single cap, home study limited to 30 hours per 5-year cycle, mapped to self_instruction/online_selfstudy/correspondence. excludedFormats = none. provider.accepts = state_approved + CERP + PACE, strict = false. carryover.maxHours = 0. requiredCredentials = a current Healthcare Provider level CPR/BLS card that must be maintained but does not itself count as CE hours. Where the two differed only on source quality, the primary board overview page (sdboardofdentistry.org) was adopted over the ADA compilation mirror. (b) WITHIN vs ADDITIVE. No mandated subject topics exist, so no within/additive determination was required for topics[]. For reference: the board's 50-hour "academic" portion is a subset of the 100 total (a quality-tier floor WITHIN the total, not on top of it); the conditional +25 anesthesia hours for sedation/anesthesia permit holders would be ADDITIVE if it applied. Board wording: "A dentist shall complete at least 100 hours of board-approved continuing education in each five-year licensure cycle," of which 50 must be academic (course physically at a CODA-accredited dental school, presenter affiliated with such a school, or a CERP/PACE-approved provider). (c) WHY FLAGGED. reviewStatus = flagged_ambiguous. Neither extractor could read the official South Dakota Administrative Code publisher (sdlegislature.gov): A reported a browser-compatibility error and B reported an unrendered JavaScript single-page app. Verbatim rule text therefore rests on secondary sources, the SD Board of Dentistry CE overview page (a primary board source, but a summary page rather than the codified rule) and the ADA "South Dakota Laws and Rules" compilation (a mirror, updated 30 November 2025). No field is runtime-verified; all citations are verified:false. Several genuine requirements cannot be represented in this schema and need human confirmation. (d) EXTRACTION FLAGS (human reviewer must check): 1. Official code not fetched. Confirm ARSD 20:43:03:07 verbatim on sdlegislature.gov (100 hrs / 5 yr; 50 academic hrs) and ARSD 20:43:03:06 for the CPR-card renewal condition. 2. 50-hour academic floor. A genuine WITHIN-total quality-tier requirement not encodable as a topic subject or a format code; described here only. 3. Content-area caps not encodable (subject-matter caps, not delivery-format caps, and not floors): nutrition CE limited to 15 hrs/cycle; practice-management CE limited to 10 hrs/cycle; CPR CE that counts toward the 100 limited to 15 hrs/cycle. Only the home-study 30-hr cap maps to a delivery format and is encoded. 4. Sedation/anesthesia permit add-on. Holders of a general anesthesia and deep sedation, moderate sedation, or host permit must complete an ADDITIONAL 25 anesthesia-related hours per cycle. Conditional on the permit; would map to sedation_anesthesia counting=additive if it applied. Not encoded for a standard general dentist. 5. Exhibits allowance. B notes up to 5 hours may be earned for attendance at exhibits at a state/regional/national dental conference; A did not mention it. Verify. 6. CPR credential citation divergence. A cites the board overview page (Healthcare Provider level, hands-on skills assessment); B cites ARSD 20:43:03:06 via the ADA mirror (AHA Healthcare Provider / American Red Cross Professional Rescuer / board-approved equivalent). Same substance, different source quality; primary-board wording adopted here. 7. Provider quote divergence. B's board quote additionally names the American Academy of Dental Hygiene as a recognized provider; the accepts list is unchanged. Confirm whether an additional recognized-provider entry is warranted. This is an hours requirement summary, 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 South Dakota State Board of Dentistry before you rely on them.