Home  |  About Us  |  Calendar  |  Links  |  Contact Us

Members Login:

  
 
communications

CE

Continuing Education is available across South Dakota through a variety of sources, including the South Dakota Dental Association, district dental societies, USD and the dental hygiene and dental assisting programs.

For a current SDDA Continuing Education list, click here.

Members can also get CE 24 hours a day seven days a week through ADA's CE Online. Courses touch on all aspects of dentistry. Knowledge is made easily accessible in straightforward lessons with dynamic resources: information bars offer video, graphics, slide shows, and audio of the entire course. Click here to go to the ADA's CE Online.

Continuing Education Requirements

Dental Requirements

Dentists are required 100 hours of continuing education every 5 years, with at least 25 hours university based.

Report continuing education courses on-line at www.sdboardofdentistry.com/.

Dental Hygiene and Dental Assistant Requirements

Dental hygienists are required 75 hours every 5 years and advanced dental assistants are required 60 hours every 5 years. Dental hygienists and dental radiographers are required 5 hours of continuing education specifically in dental radiography every five years.

For information about the Dental Assistant Radiology Course, contact either:

Western Dakota Technical Institute - Corporate Education Center at 605-718-2410 or 1-800-544-8765. http://www.wdt.edu/ or

Lake Area Technical Institute at http://www.lati.tec.sd.us

For more information on the Dental Assistant Apprenticeship Training Program, go to www.wdt.edu/corped/dental_assistant.html.

News Items

2010 Legislative Session in Final Week

The SDDA's legislation to preclude insurance companies from dictating maximum allowable charges for non-covered services has cleared the Senate and the House and is on its way to the Governor's desk.
While there is no overt action to reduce funding for the Adult Dental Medicaid Program, on-going efforts to cut spending - in order to balance the State budget - require us to keep a watchful eye on the Program.  Adult Dental is the only optional program within the Medicaid Program. We continue to closely monitor the budget process closely and it appears, at this time, that the Adult Medicaid Program will not be cut.

Follow Legislative happenings by using our online grassroots advocacy system. All members can access updated information on  legislation affecting dentistry through the SDDA's web site. Members should go to the Advocacy page on the web site (click here) to access the online system. Once in the system, members can peruse a list of bills the SDDA is following, track the legislation as it works its way through the process and read background information on the legislation. The system will also allow members to view how their Legislators voted on our issues. The system is password protected - members should use SDDA as the user name and their ADA number as the password.