Florida Dental Law and Rules
Exam Practice Questions &
Verified Answers
a. Every dentist or hygienist meets minimum requirements for safe practice - correct answer
✔✔1. The legislative purpose for enacting chapter 466 is to ensure that
a. Every dentist or hygienist meets minimum requirements for safe practice
b. Dental services not be delegated to unauthorized individuals
c. Dentists and dental hygienists maintain above minimum competency
d. Any dentist or hygienist who present a danger to the public shall be prohibited from
practicing in this state
d. Serve 4-year terms, but may serve no more than a total of 12 years - correct answer ✔✔2.
Which is incorrect regarding members of the Board of Dentistry
a. 7 members must be licensed dentists
b. At least one member of the board must be 60 years of age or older.
c. May be connected with a dental college, so long as the college does not represent the
person's principal source of income.
d. Serve 4-year terms, but may serve no more than a total of 12 years
e. Must have been involved in the practice of dentistry for at least 5 years
b. He cannot advertise this - correct answer ✔✔3. A dentist can advertise himself as an
prolotherapist if
,a. He has 200 CE hours in placing &/or restoring implants
b. He cannot advertise this
c. He is a prosthodontist
d. He is a periodontist with 100 CE hours in placing implant
T - correct answer ✔✔4. A dentist may use the services of any unlicensed person for the
purpose of constructing, altering, repairing or duplicating any denture, partial denture, bridge
splint, or orthodontic or prosthetic appliance
T/F
d. Is a misdemeanor
Me pretending to be someone else = misdeMEanor - correct answer ✔✔5. Presenting someone
else's license as your own:
a. Is grounds for disciplinary action by the Board
b. Is grounds for disciplinary action by the Department of Health
c. Is a felony
d. Is a misdemeanor
e. All of the above - correct answer ✔✔6. Certification from a provider of a CE course
completion should include:
a. The participant's name and license number
b. The provider's name and number
c. The course title, instructor, location, date offered and hours of CE credit awarded
,d. The signature of the provider, official representative or instructor.
e. All of the above
c. Formal training and indirect supervision - correct answer ✔✔7. Dental Assistants may apply
cavity liners under:
a. On-the-job training and direct supervision
b. On-the-job training and indirect supervision
c. Formal training and indirect supervision
d. Formal training and general supervision
c. 11 - correct answer ✔✔8. How many people are on the Board of Dentistry?
a. 2
b. 7
c. 11
d. 13
c. Appointment book records - correct answer ✔✔9. Official records of peer review committees
do not include:
a. Correspondence between the dentist and the committee
b. Diagnostic data
c. Appointment book records
d. Correspondence between the complainant and the committee
a. Direct
, Without any additional training (No OTJ or formal training - they learn this in school) - correct
answer ✔✔10. Gingival curettage by a Hygienist may be performed under what type of
supervision?
a. Direct
b. Indirect
c. General
d. All of the above
a. 30 hrs + CPR
remember that CPR is NOT a hourly CE requirement - correct answer ✔✔11. Continuing
education per biennium for a dentist:
a. 30 hrs + CPR
b. 30 hrs + HIV/AIDS
c. 24 hrs + CPR
d. 24 hrs + medical errors
d. Full time dental faculty are not eligible - correct answer ✔✔12. Which is true about the
Board?
a. 12 members
b. The Governor appoints; the House confirms
c. At least 1 dentist must be 50+ yrs old
d. Full time dental faculty are not eligible
Exam Practice Questions &
Verified Answers
a. Every dentist or hygienist meets minimum requirements for safe practice - correct answer
✔✔1. The legislative purpose for enacting chapter 466 is to ensure that
a. Every dentist or hygienist meets minimum requirements for safe practice
b. Dental services not be delegated to unauthorized individuals
c. Dentists and dental hygienists maintain above minimum competency
d. Any dentist or hygienist who present a danger to the public shall be prohibited from
practicing in this state
d. Serve 4-year terms, but may serve no more than a total of 12 years - correct answer ✔✔2.
Which is incorrect regarding members of the Board of Dentistry
a. 7 members must be licensed dentists
b. At least one member of the board must be 60 years of age or older.
c. May be connected with a dental college, so long as the college does not represent the
person's principal source of income.
d. Serve 4-year terms, but may serve no more than a total of 12 years
e. Must have been involved in the practice of dentistry for at least 5 years
b. He cannot advertise this - correct answer ✔✔3. A dentist can advertise himself as an
prolotherapist if
,a. He has 200 CE hours in placing &/or restoring implants
b. He cannot advertise this
c. He is a prosthodontist
d. He is a periodontist with 100 CE hours in placing implant
T - correct answer ✔✔4. A dentist may use the services of any unlicensed person for the
purpose of constructing, altering, repairing or duplicating any denture, partial denture, bridge
splint, or orthodontic or prosthetic appliance
T/F
d. Is a misdemeanor
Me pretending to be someone else = misdeMEanor - correct answer ✔✔5. Presenting someone
else's license as your own:
a. Is grounds for disciplinary action by the Board
b. Is grounds for disciplinary action by the Department of Health
c. Is a felony
d. Is a misdemeanor
e. All of the above - correct answer ✔✔6. Certification from a provider of a CE course
completion should include:
a. The participant's name and license number
b. The provider's name and number
c. The course title, instructor, location, date offered and hours of CE credit awarded
,d. The signature of the provider, official representative or instructor.
e. All of the above
c. Formal training and indirect supervision - correct answer ✔✔7. Dental Assistants may apply
cavity liners under:
a. On-the-job training and direct supervision
b. On-the-job training and indirect supervision
c. Formal training and indirect supervision
d. Formal training and general supervision
c. 11 - correct answer ✔✔8. How many people are on the Board of Dentistry?
a. 2
b. 7
c. 11
d. 13
c. Appointment book records - correct answer ✔✔9. Official records of peer review committees
do not include:
a. Correspondence between the dentist and the committee
b. Diagnostic data
c. Appointment book records
d. Correspondence between the complainant and the committee
a. Direct
, Without any additional training (No OTJ or formal training - they learn this in school) - correct
answer ✔✔10. Gingival curettage by a Hygienist may be performed under what type of
supervision?
a. Direct
b. Indirect
c. General
d. All of the above
a. 30 hrs + CPR
remember that CPR is NOT a hourly CE requirement - correct answer ✔✔11. Continuing
education per biennium for a dentist:
a. 30 hrs + CPR
b. 30 hrs + HIV/AIDS
c. 24 hrs + CPR
d. 24 hrs + medical errors
d. Full time dental faculty are not eligible - correct answer ✔✔12. Which is true about the
Board?
a. 12 members
b. The Governor appoints; the House confirms
c. At least 1 dentist must be 50+ yrs old
d. Full time dental faculty are not eligible
