Florida Laws & Rules (Dental Exam ADEX CDCA)
1. Dentistry: the healing art which is concerned with the exam, diagnosis, treatment
planning, and care of conditions within the human oral cavity and adjacent tissues
and structures
2. Dental Hygiene: the rendering of educational, preventative, and therapeutic den-
tal services and any related extra-oral procedure required in the performance of
services
3. Governor of Florida: Who appoints the board of dentistry members?
4. Irremediable tasks: Intraoral treatment tasks which are irreversible and create
unaltered changes within the oral cavity
5. Remediable tasks: Intraoral treatment tasks which are reversible and do not
create unalterable changes within the oral cavity or structures and do not cause an
increased risk to the patient
6. Irremediable: Applying topical with jet spray is what type of task?
7. Remediable: A dental hygienist who applies bleaching solution, activates light
source, monitors and removes in office bleaching materials is performing a
task
8. Re-cementing temp crowns with temp cement: The practicing dentist is out of
,the country and a patient comes into the office with an emergency.
What is a remediable task is the hygienist/assistant able to perform?
A) Cementing permanent and temporary crowns with temporary cement
B) Removing sutures
C) Re-cementing temporary crowns with temporary cement
D) Re-cementing permanent crowns with temporary cement
9. Irremediable: The use of a laser or laser type device is considered to be what
type of task?
10. Dental hygienists & assistants: Who may perform emergency remediable
tasks under conditions specified in the laws?
A) Hygienist
B) Assistant
C) Both
D) Neither
11. 50 min: How many minutes are equivalent to one hour of continuing education?
12. Chemotherapeutic agents: What is not an appropriate topic for continuing
education?
,A) Domestic violence
, B) Chemotherapeutic agents
C) Stress management for the patient
D) Scaling and root planing techniques
13. Board approved individual study: What is an appropriate educational activity
or topic for continuing education?
A) Medical errors
B) CPR refresher course
C) Board review seminar
D) Board approved individual study
14. Pt stress management: What is an example of a CE a dental hygienist would
take?
A) practice management
B) organization or design of the office
C) patient stress management
D) personnel management
15. 1st biennium of licensure (new licenses do not need CE credit for 2
years): When are licensees excused from CE?
A) never
1. Dentistry: the healing art which is concerned with the exam, diagnosis, treatment
planning, and care of conditions within the human oral cavity and adjacent tissues
and structures
2. Dental Hygiene: the rendering of educational, preventative, and therapeutic den-
tal services and any related extra-oral procedure required in the performance of
services
3. Governor of Florida: Who appoints the board of dentistry members?
4. Irremediable tasks: Intraoral treatment tasks which are irreversible and create
unaltered changes within the oral cavity
5. Remediable tasks: Intraoral treatment tasks which are reversible and do not
create unalterable changes within the oral cavity or structures and do not cause an
increased risk to the patient
6. Irremediable: Applying topical with jet spray is what type of task?
7. Remediable: A dental hygienist who applies bleaching solution, activates light
source, monitors and removes in office bleaching materials is performing a
task
8. Re-cementing temp crowns with temp cement: The practicing dentist is out of
,the country and a patient comes into the office with an emergency.
What is a remediable task is the hygienist/assistant able to perform?
A) Cementing permanent and temporary crowns with temporary cement
B) Removing sutures
C) Re-cementing temporary crowns with temporary cement
D) Re-cementing permanent crowns with temporary cement
9. Irremediable: The use of a laser or laser type device is considered to be what
type of task?
10. Dental hygienists & assistants: Who may perform emergency remediable
tasks under conditions specified in the laws?
A) Hygienist
B) Assistant
C) Both
D) Neither
11. 50 min: How many minutes are equivalent to one hour of continuing education?
12. Chemotherapeutic agents: What is not an appropriate topic for continuing
education?
,A) Domestic violence
, B) Chemotherapeutic agents
C) Stress management for the patient
D) Scaling and root planing techniques
13. Board approved individual study: What is an appropriate educational activity
or topic for continuing education?
A) Medical errors
B) CPR refresher course
C) Board review seminar
D) Board approved individual study
14. Pt stress management: What is an example of a CE a dental hygienist would
take?
A) practice management
B) organization or design of the office
C) patient stress management
D) personnel management
15. 1st biennium of licensure (new licenses do not need CE credit for 2
years): When are licensees excused from CE?
A) never
