RDHAP LAW AND ETHICS EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔If not renewed, a license issued under the provisions of this article, unless
specifically excepted, expires at 12 midnight on the last day of the month of the legal
birth date of the licensee during the second year of a two-year term. To renew an
unexpired license, the licensee shall, before the time at which the license would
otherwise expire, apply for renewal on a form prescribed by the dental hygiene board
and pay the renewal fee prescribed by this article. - ✔✔Remember 12 midnight at end
of birth month
✔✔1936. Except as otherwise provided in this article, an expired license may be
renewed at any time within - ✔✔five years after its expiration by filing an application for
renewal on a form prescribed by the dental hygiene board and payment of all accrued
renewal and delinquency fees.
✔✔The dental hygiene board may reprimand a licensee or order a license suspended
or revoked, or placed on probation or may decline to issue a license, when any of the
following occur: - ✔✔(1) The time for appeal has elapsed.
(2) The judgment of conviction has been affirmed on appeal.
(3) An order granting probation is made suspending the imposition of sentence,
irrespective of a subsequent order under any provision of the Penal Code, including, but
not limited to, Section 1203.4 of the Penal Code, allowing a person to withdraw their
plea of guilty and to enter a plea of not guilty, or setting aside the verdict of guilty, or
dismissing the accusation, information, or indictment.
✔✔Unprofessional conduct by a person licensed under this article is defined as, but is
not limited to, any one of the following: - ✔✔The obtaining of any fee by fraud or
misrepresentation.
(b) The aiding or abetting of any unlicensed person to practice dentistry or dental
hygiene.
(c) The aiding or abetting of a licensed person to practice dentistry or dental hygiene
unlawfully.
(d) The committing of any act or acts of sexual abuse, misconduct, or relations with a
patient that are substantially related to the practice of dental hygiene.
(e) The use of any false, assumed, or fictitious name, either as an individual, firm,
corporation, or otherwise, or any name other than the name under which the person is
licensed to practice, in advertising or in any other manner indicating that the person is
practicing or will practice dentistry, except the name specified in a valid permit issued
pursuant to Section 1962.
(f) The practice of accepting or receiving any commission or the rebating in any form or
manner of fees for professional services, radiographs, prescriptions, or other services or
articles supplied to patients.
(g) The making use by the licensee or any agent of the licensee of any advertising
statements of a character tending to deceive or mislead the public.
, (h) The advertising of either professional superiority or the advertising of performance of
professional services in a superior manner. This subdivision shall not prohibit
advertising permitted by subdivision (h) of Section 651.
(i) The employing or the making use of solicitors.
(j) Advertising in violation of Section 651.
(k) Advertising to guarantee any dental hygiene service, or to perform any dental
hygiene procedure painlessly. This subdivision shall not prohibit advertising permitted
by Section 651.
(l) The violation of any of the provisions of this division.
(m) The permitting of any person to operate dental radiographic equipment who has not
met the requirements to do so, as determine
✔✔1953. (a) A registered dental hygienist, registered dental hygienist in alternative
practice, or registered dental hygienist in extended functions who performs a service on
a patient in a dental office shall identify himself or herself in the patient record by signing
his or her name or identification number and initials next to the service performed, and
shall date those treatment entries in the record. - ✔✔(b) A repeated violation of this
section constitutes unprofessional conduct.
✔✔1) A licensee who fails or refuses to comply with a request for a patient's dental or
dental hygiene records that is accompanied by that patient's written authorization for
release of the records to the dental hygiene board, within 15 days of receiving the
request and authorization, shall pay to the dental hygiene board a civil or administrative
penalty or fine up to a maximum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per day for each day
that the documents have not been produced after the 15th day, up to a maximum of five
thousand dollars ($5,000) unless the licensee is unable to provide the documents within
this time period for good cause. - ✔✔True
✔✔It is ____________ _____________for a person licensed under this article to
require, either directly or through an office policy, or knowingly permit the delivery of
dental hygiene care that discourages necessary treatment, or permits clearly excessive,
incompetent, unnecessary, or grossly negligent treatment, or repeated negligent acts,
as determined by the standard of practice in the community. - ✔✔unprofessional
conduct
✔✔A person, company, or association is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction,
shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not less than 10 days nor more than
one year, or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one
thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500), or by both that fine and imprisonment, who
does any of the following: - ✔✔a) Assumes the title of "registered dental hygienist,"
"registered dental hygienist in alternative practice," or "registered dental hygienist in
extended functions" or appends the letters "R.D.H.," "R.D.H.A.P.," or "R.D.H.E.F." to the
person's name without having had the right to assume the title conferred upon the
person through licensure.
AND SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔If not renewed, a license issued under the provisions of this article, unless
specifically excepted, expires at 12 midnight on the last day of the month of the legal
birth date of the licensee during the second year of a two-year term. To renew an
unexpired license, the licensee shall, before the time at which the license would
otherwise expire, apply for renewal on a form prescribed by the dental hygiene board
and pay the renewal fee prescribed by this article. - ✔✔Remember 12 midnight at end
of birth month
✔✔1936. Except as otherwise provided in this article, an expired license may be
renewed at any time within - ✔✔five years after its expiration by filing an application for
renewal on a form prescribed by the dental hygiene board and payment of all accrued
renewal and delinquency fees.
✔✔The dental hygiene board may reprimand a licensee or order a license suspended
or revoked, or placed on probation or may decline to issue a license, when any of the
following occur: - ✔✔(1) The time for appeal has elapsed.
(2) The judgment of conviction has been affirmed on appeal.
(3) An order granting probation is made suspending the imposition of sentence,
irrespective of a subsequent order under any provision of the Penal Code, including, but
not limited to, Section 1203.4 of the Penal Code, allowing a person to withdraw their
plea of guilty and to enter a plea of not guilty, or setting aside the verdict of guilty, or
dismissing the accusation, information, or indictment.
✔✔Unprofessional conduct by a person licensed under this article is defined as, but is
not limited to, any one of the following: - ✔✔The obtaining of any fee by fraud or
misrepresentation.
(b) The aiding or abetting of any unlicensed person to practice dentistry or dental
hygiene.
(c) The aiding or abetting of a licensed person to practice dentistry or dental hygiene
unlawfully.
(d) The committing of any act or acts of sexual abuse, misconduct, or relations with a
patient that are substantially related to the practice of dental hygiene.
(e) The use of any false, assumed, or fictitious name, either as an individual, firm,
corporation, or otherwise, or any name other than the name under which the person is
licensed to practice, in advertising or in any other manner indicating that the person is
practicing or will practice dentistry, except the name specified in a valid permit issued
pursuant to Section 1962.
(f) The practice of accepting or receiving any commission or the rebating in any form or
manner of fees for professional services, radiographs, prescriptions, or other services or
articles supplied to patients.
(g) The making use by the licensee or any agent of the licensee of any advertising
statements of a character tending to deceive or mislead the public.
, (h) The advertising of either professional superiority or the advertising of performance of
professional services in a superior manner. This subdivision shall not prohibit
advertising permitted by subdivision (h) of Section 651.
(i) The employing or the making use of solicitors.
(j) Advertising in violation of Section 651.
(k) Advertising to guarantee any dental hygiene service, or to perform any dental
hygiene procedure painlessly. This subdivision shall not prohibit advertising permitted
by Section 651.
(l) The violation of any of the provisions of this division.
(m) The permitting of any person to operate dental radiographic equipment who has not
met the requirements to do so, as determine
✔✔1953. (a) A registered dental hygienist, registered dental hygienist in alternative
practice, or registered dental hygienist in extended functions who performs a service on
a patient in a dental office shall identify himself or herself in the patient record by signing
his or her name or identification number and initials next to the service performed, and
shall date those treatment entries in the record. - ✔✔(b) A repeated violation of this
section constitutes unprofessional conduct.
✔✔1) A licensee who fails or refuses to comply with a request for a patient's dental or
dental hygiene records that is accompanied by that patient's written authorization for
release of the records to the dental hygiene board, within 15 days of receiving the
request and authorization, shall pay to the dental hygiene board a civil or administrative
penalty or fine up to a maximum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per day for each day
that the documents have not been produced after the 15th day, up to a maximum of five
thousand dollars ($5,000) unless the licensee is unable to provide the documents within
this time period for good cause. - ✔✔True
✔✔It is ____________ _____________for a person licensed under this article to
require, either directly or through an office policy, or knowingly permit the delivery of
dental hygiene care that discourages necessary treatment, or permits clearly excessive,
incompetent, unnecessary, or grossly negligent treatment, or repeated negligent acts,
as determined by the standard of practice in the community. - ✔✔unprofessional
conduct
✔✔A person, company, or association is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction,
shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not less than 10 days nor more than
one year, or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one
thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500), or by both that fine and imprisonment, who
does any of the following: - ✔✔a) Assumes the title of "registered dental hygienist,"
"registered dental hygienist in alternative practice," or "registered dental hygienist in
extended functions" or appends the letters "R.D.H.," "R.D.H.A.P.," or "R.D.H.E.F." to the
person's name without having had the right to assume the title conferred upon the
person through licensure.
