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.