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Florida Dental Law and Rules Practice Exam

• The legislative purpose for enacting chapter 466 is to ensure that
• Every dentist or hygienist meets minimum requirements for safe practice
• Dental services not be delegated to unauthorized individuals
• Dentists and dental hygienists maintain above minimum competency
• Any dentist or hygienist who present a danger to the public shall be prohibited from

practicing in this state Answer: a. Every dentist or hygienist meets minimum requirements for safe practice

• Which is incorrect regarding members of the Board of Dentistry

• 7 members must be licensed dentists
• At least one member of the board must be 60 years of age or older.
• May be connected with a dental college, so long as the college does not represent the

person's principal source of income.

• Serve 4-year terms, but may serve no more than a total of 12 years
• Must have been involved in the practice of dentistry for at least 5 years

Answer: d. Serve 4-year terms, but may serve no more than a total of 12 years

• A dentist can advertise himself as an prolotherapist if

• He has 200 CE hours in placing &/or restoring implants
• He cannot advertise this
• He is a prosthodontist
• He is a periodontist with 100 CE hours in placing implant

Answer: b. He cannot advertise this

• 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

Answer: T

5. 5. Presenting someone else's license as your own:

• Is grounds for disciplinary action by the Board
• Is grounds for disciplinary action by the Department of Health
• Is a felony 2 / 4

• Is a misdemeanor

Answer: d. Is a misdemeanor

6. 6. Certification from a provider of a CE course completion should include:

• The participant's name and license number
• The provider's name and number
• The course title, instructor, location, date offered and hours of CE credit awarded
• The signature of the provider, official representative or instructor.
• All of the above

Answer: e. All of the above

7. 7. Dental Assistants may apply cavity liners under:

• On-the-job training and direct supervision
• On-the-job training and indirect supervision
• Formal training and indirect supervision
• Formal training and general supervision

Answer: c. Formal training and indirect super- vision

• How many people are on the Board of Dentistry?

• 2
• 7
• 11
• 13

Answer: c. 11

9. 9. Official records of peer review committees do not include:

• Correspondence between the dentist and the committee
• Diagnostic data
• Appointment book records
• Correspondence between the complainant and the committee

Answer: c. Appointment book records

• 10. Gingival curettage by a Hygienist may be performed under what type of supervision?

• Direct
• Indirect 3 / 4

• General
• All of the above

Answer: a. Direct

11. 11. Continuing education per biennium for a dentist:

• 30 hrs + CPR
• 30 hrs + HIV/AIDS

• 24 hrs + CPR
• 24 hrs + medical errors

Answer: a. 30 hrs + CPR

remember that CPR is NOT a hourly CE requirement

• 12. Which is true about the Board?

• 12 members
• The Governor appoints; the House confirms
• At least 1 dentist must be 50+ yrs old
• Full time dental faculty are not eligible

Answer: d. Full time dental faculty are not eligible

• 13. The Board of Dentistry can issue a warrant for your arrest.

T/F

Answer: F

• 14. With regard to nitrous-oxide oxygen administration, an assistant with formal training

& under indirect supervision may:

• Monitor the administration
• Make adjustments
• Turn it off at the completion of the dental procedure
• None of the above

Answer: d. None of the above

Must be under DIRECT supervision - DH & DA can monitor the administration, make adjustments, and turn it off. But the dentist must turn it on and established the maintenance level

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