RDHAP LAW AND ETHICS CORE EXAM SET QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Justice - ✔✔fair, equitable, and appropriate treatment of persons.
✔✔Competence - ✔✔the ability to evaluate, analyze, and reflect on ethical issues that
relate to a person, their environment, and their professional behavior
✔✔Professionalism - ✔✔the values, behaviors, and goals that define a profession,
while ethics is the study of morality
✔✔Confidentiality - ✔✔an ethical duty that requires individuals or organizations to
protect information that has been entrusted to them
✔✔Beneficence - ✔✔an ethical principle that refers to acting in a way that benefits
others while promoting their safety and welfare
✔✔Nonmaleficence - ✔✔the principle of avoiding or minimizing harm to others, and is
often expressed as "do no harm"
✔✔Film deception - ✔✔under the age of 16 must be reported immediately with follow-
up hardcopy within 36 hours of receiving information
✔✔Child Abuse Confidentiality? - ✔✔Can get up to six months, $500 or both
✔✔Where can we work? - ✔✔residence of homebound patients, schools, residential
facilities, and other institutions including boys and girls institutes, dental or medical
settings, and rural areas
✔✔Participation in the Dental Board of California or Western Regional Examination
Board - ✔✔shall be issued continuing education credit for up to 20% of their total
continuing unit requirements for license renewal
✔✔80% of CE units - ✔✔Must be dental practice related to patients; 50% must be live
and 50% can be home study
✔✔to have teledentistry one must? - ✔✔have frequent and accurate offset computer
backup
✔✔The practice of dental hygiene includes - ✔✔dental hygiene assessment and
development, planning, and implementation of a dental hygiene care plan. It also
includes oral health education, counseling, and health screenings
, ✔✔the practice of dental hygiene does not include any of the following procedures -
✔✔diagnosis and comprehensive treatment planning, placing, condensing, carving or
removal of permanent restorations, surgery or cutting on hard and soft tissue including
but not limited to, the removal of teeth and the cutting and suturing of soft tissue,
prescribing medication, administering local or general anesthesia or parenteral
conscious sedation, except for nitrous oxide
✔✔a registered dental hygienist is authorized to perform the following procedures under
direct supervision of a licensed dentist, after submitting to the dental hygiene board
evidence of satisfactory completion of a course of instruction, approved by the board -
✔✔soft tissue curettage, administration of local anesthesia, administration of nitrous
and oxide
✔✔a registered dental hygienist is authorized to perform the following procedures under
general supervision - ✔✔preventative and therapeutic interventions including
prophylaxis and scaling and root planing, application of topical fluoride, the taking of
impressions, tooth whitening applications
✔✔a registered dental hygienist may provide, without supervision, educational services,
oral health training programs, and oral health screenings - ✔✔RDH shall refer to any
screened patients with possible oral abnormalities to a dentist for a comprehensive
examination, diagnosis and treatment plan
✔✔no person other than a RDH, RDHAP, or RDHEF, or licensed dentist may engage in
the practice of dental hygiene or perform dental hygiene procedures on patients,
including, but not limited to, supragingival and subgingival scaling, dental hygiene
assessment, and treatment planning, except for the following persons: - ✔✔a student
enrolled in a dental or a dental hygiene school who is performing procedures as part of
the regular curriculum of that program under the supervision of the faculty of that
program, a dental assistant acting in accordance witht he rules of the dental board
performing the following procedures: applying nonaerosol and noncaustic topical
agents, applying topical fluoride, taking impressions for bleaching trays,
✔✔RDA can perform - ✔✔polishing the coronal surfaces of teeth, applying bleaching
agents, activating bleaching agents with a nonlaser light-curing device, applying pit and
fissure sealants
✔✔a RDHAP may perform the duties authorized pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section
1907, subdivision (a) of Secton 1908, and subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 1910 in
the following settings: - ✔✔residences of the homebound, schools, residential facilities
and other institutions, dental health professional shortage areas, as certified by the
Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development in accordance with existing office
guidelines, dental office
AND SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Justice - ✔✔fair, equitable, and appropriate treatment of persons.
✔✔Competence - ✔✔the ability to evaluate, analyze, and reflect on ethical issues that
relate to a person, their environment, and their professional behavior
✔✔Professionalism - ✔✔the values, behaviors, and goals that define a profession,
while ethics is the study of morality
✔✔Confidentiality - ✔✔an ethical duty that requires individuals or organizations to
protect information that has been entrusted to them
✔✔Beneficence - ✔✔an ethical principle that refers to acting in a way that benefits
others while promoting their safety and welfare
✔✔Nonmaleficence - ✔✔the principle of avoiding or minimizing harm to others, and is
often expressed as "do no harm"
✔✔Film deception - ✔✔under the age of 16 must be reported immediately with follow-
up hardcopy within 36 hours of receiving information
✔✔Child Abuse Confidentiality? - ✔✔Can get up to six months, $500 or both
✔✔Where can we work? - ✔✔residence of homebound patients, schools, residential
facilities, and other institutions including boys and girls institutes, dental or medical
settings, and rural areas
✔✔Participation in the Dental Board of California or Western Regional Examination
Board - ✔✔shall be issued continuing education credit for up to 20% of their total
continuing unit requirements for license renewal
✔✔80% of CE units - ✔✔Must be dental practice related to patients; 50% must be live
and 50% can be home study
✔✔to have teledentistry one must? - ✔✔have frequent and accurate offset computer
backup
✔✔The practice of dental hygiene includes - ✔✔dental hygiene assessment and
development, planning, and implementation of a dental hygiene care plan. It also
includes oral health education, counseling, and health screenings
, ✔✔the practice of dental hygiene does not include any of the following procedures -
✔✔diagnosis and comprehensive treatment planning, placing, condensing, carving or
removal of permanent restorations, surgery or cutting on hard and soft tissue including
but not limited to, the removal of teeth and the cutting and suturing of soft tissue,
prescribing medication, administering local or general anesthesia or parenteral
conscious sedation, except for nitrous oxide
✔✔a registered dental hygienist is authorized to perform the following procedures under
direct supervision of a licensed dentist, after submitting to the dental hygiene board
evidence of satisfactory completion of a course of instruction, approved by the board -
✔✔soft tissue curettage, administration of local anesthesia, administration of nitrous
and oxide
✔✔a registered dental hygienist is authorized to perform the following procedures under
general supervision - ✔✔preventative and therapeutic interventions including
prophylaxis and scaling and root planing, application of topical fluoride, the taking of
impressions, tooth whitening applications
✔✔a registered dental hygienist may provide, without supervision, educational services,
oral health training programs, and oral health screenings - ✔✔RDH shall refer to any
screened patients with possible oral abnormalities to a dentist for a comprehensive
examination, diagnosis and treatment plan
✔✔no person other than a RDH, RDHAP, or RDHEF, or licensed dentist may engage in
the practice of dental hygiene or perform dental hygiene procedures on patients,
including, but not limited to, supragingival and subgingival scaling, dental hygiene
assessment, and treatment planning, except for the following persons: - ✔✔a student
enrolled in a dental or a dental hygiene school who is performing procedures as part of
the regular curriculum of that program under the supervision of the faculty of that
program, a dental assistant acting in accordance witht he rules of the dental board
performing the following procedures: applying nonaerosol and noncaustic topical
agents, applying topical fluoride, taking impressions for bleaching trays,
✔✔RDA can perform - ✔✔polishing the coronal surfaces of teeth, applying bleaching
agents, activating bleaching agents with a nonlaser light-curing device, applying pit and
fissure sealants
✔✔a RDHAP may perform the duties authorized pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section
1907, subdivision (a) of Secton 1908, and subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 1910 in
the following settings: - ✔✔residences of the homebound, schools, residential facilities
and other institutions, dental health professional shortage areas, as certified by the
Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development in accordance with existing office
guidelines, dental office
