La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § XXXIII-103
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 12, December 20, 2024
Section XXXIII-103 - Evidence of GraduationA.1. All applicants for a dental license shall furnish the board with satisfactory evidence of graduation from an accredited dental school, dental college, or educational program. An accredited dental school, dental college, or educational program shall be one that has been certified as accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association (CODA).2. An applicant for a dental license who did not attend an accredited dental school or dental college must successfully complete a post-graduate CODA-approved program in either general dentistry or one of the board approved specialties listed in §122 The board may waive this requirement if the applicant meets with the board and is determined by the board to be qualified by other means to practice dentistry in this state. a. An acceptable general dentistry post-graduate program shall consist of at least two complete, consecutive years of training in no more than two CODA-approved institutions or programs. The board does not accept an accumulation of incomplete programs to satisfy this requirement.b. An acceptable specialty post-graduate program shall consist of at least two consecutive years at the same institution. The board does not accept an accumulation of programs which are less than two years in length to satisfy this requirement.c. If granted a dental license, an applicant who fulfills his or her dental education requirement through a CODA-approved post-graduate program will be required to practice in only the field in which he or she obtained the two years of post-graduate training.B. All applicants for a dental hygiene license shall furnish the board with satisfactory evidence of graduation from an accredited dental hygiene school, dental hygiene college, or educational program of at least two years in length.C. The phrase satisfactory evidence of graduation from an accredited dental school, dental college or educational program shall mean receipt of satisfactory evidence from the dean of the applicant's school specifically stating that the applicant will indeed graduate within 90 days following the successful completion of a board-approved clinical licensing examination.D. The president of the board shall withhold his signature on the license of the applicant pending receipt of satisfactory evidence of graduation before awarding the applicant's license to practice dentistry or dental hygiene in the state of Louisiana.La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § XXXIII-103
Promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Resources, Board of Dentistry, LR 10:88 (February 1984), amended by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Board of Dentistry, LR 24:1112 (June 1998), LR 26:488 (March 2000), LR 27:1890 (November 2001), LR 38:2770 (November 2012), repromulgated LR 39:87 (January 2013), Amended LR 4965 (1/1/2023).AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:760(8).