IOWA DENTAL BOARD JURISPRUDENCE UPDATED 2026
EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS SCORED A+
✔✔If you are prescribing opioids during the current renewal period you must take a
minimum of how many CE on opioids? - ✔✔1 hour
✔✔True or False:
Prescribing opioids in dose amounts that are unreasonable for the procedure or pain
expected would be grounds for discipline in board rule. - ✔✔true
✔✔Records must be kept for a minimum of how many years? and for minors? - ✔✔6
years
For minors: 6 years or age 19 whichever one is longer.
✔✔True or false:
You can deny a patient their records if that patient owes you money. - ✔✔False
✔✔5 rules to record keeping - ✔✔- permanent
- timely
-accurate
- legible
- easy to understand
✔✔Levels of Supervision:
- 3 levels: what are they? - ✔✔Personal, general, direct
✔✔What is public health supervision and who does it apply to? - ✔✔An agreement
made between DH and dentist that allows the DH to practice in some public health
settings.
✔✔Personal level of supervision is only for _____________ ______________
____________. - ✔✔Dental assisting trainees.
✔✔True or false:
Dental assisting trainees can perform any intraoral or extra oral procedures as long as a
dentist is in the office. - ✔✔false
- for intraoral functions: the dentist must be in the room
- for extra oral functions, another licensee or registrant may be in the room. no dentist
needed.
- They may not work independently.
, ✔✔How does personal supervision different from direct supervision? - ✔✔Personal
supervision applies to dental assistants in training. Someone must oversee and direct
services next to the trainee. The doctor may need to be present for intraoral tasks.
Direct supervision means that the doctor is in the facility. does not have to be in the
same room.
✔✔True or false:
General supervision means that the doctor has delegated tasks to other DH or DA but
they are not in the room or facility. - ✔✔True
✔✔True or false;
If a DDS is out of the office, the DH may provide authorized hygiene services to all
patients. - ✔✔False: not for new patients. Only patients of record can receive these
services and no exam can be done.
✔✔Which services can a DH not provide? - ✔✔local anesthesia, N2O, new patients,
expanded functions
✔✔How should you conduct care when DDS is not in office and DH is working? - ✔✔-
inform patients/guardians prior that no dentist is present and no exam to be done
- DH must consent to arrangement
- basic emergency services must be in place
- treatment is provided prior-prescribed and entered in writing on tx record
✔✔Give examples of tasks allowed by DA that is authorized by DDS to do while DDS is
not in the facility? - ✔✔- Extraoral services (infection control)
- Dental radiography
- intraoral suctioning
- use of curing light
- intraoral camera/digital imaging
✔✔True or False:
As a dental assistant trainee you can perform duties under supervision but you don't
have to be registered as a trainee with the dental board. - ✔✔False: you do have to be
registered as a trainee
✔✔True or false:
Nurses that are licensed can perform all duties of a DA except dental radiography which
requires a different qualification from the board. - ✔✔True
EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS SCORED A+
✔✔If you are prescribing opioids during the current renewal period you must take a
minimum of how many CE on opioids? - ✔✔1 hour
✔✔True or False:
Prescribing opioids in dose amounts that are unreasonable for the procedure or pain
expected would be grounds for discipline in board rule. - ✔✔true
✔✔Records must be kept for a minimum of how many years? and for minors? - ✔✔6
years
For minors: 6 years or age 19 whichever one is longer.
✔✔True or false:
You can deny a patient their records if that patient owes you money. - ✔✔False
✔✔5 rules to record keeping - ✔✔- permanent
- timely
-accurate
- legible
- easy to understand
✔✔Levels of Supervision:
- 3 levels: what are they? - ✔✔Personal, general, direct
✔✔What is public health supervision and who does it apply to? - ✔✔An agreement
made between DH and dentist that allows the DH to practice in some public health
settings.
✔✔Personal level of supervision is only for _____________ ______________
____________. - ✔✔Dental assisting trainees.
✔✔True or false:
Dental assisting trainees can perform any intraoral or extra oral procedures as long as a
dentist is in the office. - ✔✔false
- for intraoral functions: the dentist must be in the room
- for extra oral functions, another licensee or registrant may be in the room. no dentist
needed.
- They may not work independently.
, ✔✔How does personal supervision different from direct supervision? - ✔✔Personal
supervision applies to dental assistants in training. Someone must oversee and direct
services next to the trainee. The doctor may need to be present for intraoral tasks.
Direct supervision means that the doctor is in the facility. does not have to be in the
same room.
✔✔True or false:
General supervision means that the doctor has delegated tasks to other DH or DA but
they are not in the room or facility. - ✔✔True
✔✔True or false;
If a DDS is out of the office, the DH may provide authorized hygiene services to all
patients. - ✔✔False: not for new patients. Only patients of record can receive these
services and no exam can be done.
✔✔Which services can a DH not provide? - ✔✔local anesthesia, N2O, new patients,
expanded functions
✔✔How should you conduct care when DDS is not in office and DH is working? - ✔✔-
inform patients/guardians prior that no dentist is present and no exam to be done
- DH must consent to arrangement
- basic emergency services must be in place
- treatment is provided prior-prescribed and entered in writing on tx record
✔✔Give examples of tasks allowed by DA that is authorized by DDS to do while DDS is
not in the facility? - ✔✔- Extraoral services (infection control)
- Dental radiography
- intraoral suctioning
- use of curing light
- intraoral camera/digital imaging
✔✔True or False:
As a dental assistant trainee you can perform duties under supervision but you don't
have to be registered as a trainee with the dental board. - ✔✔False: you do have to be
registered as a trainee
✔✔True or false:
Nurses that are licensed can perform all duties of a DA except dental radiography which
requires a different qualification from the board. - ✔✔True
