Chapter 64B5, Florida Administrative Code - Board of Dentistry Rules
Chapter 64B5 contains the Board of Dentistry's operative rules: licensure applications and examinations, renewal and continuing education, infection control, recordkeeping, delegation and expanded duties, sedation/anesthesia permits, prescribing, advertising, office inspections, and disciplinary guidelines. Candidates should know the Board's rule structure rather than memorizing isolated numbers: CE requirements have a biennial total plus mandated topics, and mandated hours usually count inside the total, not on top of it. Infection-control questions test standard precautions, sterilization monitoring, barrier use, hand hygiene, and sharps handling; the trap is treating infection control as optional office policy rather than a rule-backed obligation. Sedation questions test the permit level, patient selection, monitoring, emergency equipment, and rescue capability; the trap is assuming one permit authorizes all levels or that monitoring can be delegated without qualification. Delegation questions test whether the rule permits the task and what training, certification, and supervision are required. Advertising and fee questions test false or misleading claims and improper specialty designation. Worked example: A dentist completes the mandated medical-error and controlled-substance hours and asks whether they reduce the remaining biennial CE total. Under the Board's structure, mandated topic hours are generally part of the total requirement, so the dentist still must complete the full biennial total, with the mandates satisfied within it. Rule of thumb: for any 64B5 question, identify the rule category-licensure, CE, infection control, records, sedation, delegation, advertising, or discipline-then apply that category's specific conditions.