Florida Laws & Rules (Dental Exam ADEX CDCA)

1. Dentistry: the healing art which is concerned with the exam, diagnosis, treatment planning, and care of conditions within the human oral cavity and adjacent

tissues and structures

2. Dental Hygiene: the rendering of educational, preventative, and therapeutic

dental services and any related extra-oral procedure required in the performance

of services

3. Governor of Florida: Who appoints the board of dentistry members?

4. Irremediable tasks: Intraoral treatment tasks which are irreversible and create

unaltered changes within the oral cavity

5. Remediable tasks: Intraoral treatment tasks which are reversible and do not

create unalterable changes within the oral cavity or structures and do not cause

an increased risk to the patient

6. Irremediable: Applying topical with jet spray is what type of task?

7. Remediable: A dental hygienist who applies bleaching solution, activates light

source, monitors and removes in office bleaching materials is performing a

task

8. Re-cementing temp crowns with temp cement: The practicing dentist is out

of the country and a patient comes into the office with an emergency.

What is a remediable task is the hygienist/assistant able to perform?

9. Irremediable: The use of a laser or laser type device is considered to be what

type of task?

10. Dental hygienists & assistants: Who may perform emergency remediable

tasks under conditions specified in the laws?

11. 50 min: How many minutes are equivalent to one hour of continuing education?

12. Chemotherapeutic agents: What is not an appropriate topic for continuing

education?

13. Board approved individual study: What is an appropriate educational activity

or topic for continuing education?

14. Pt stress management: What is an example of a CE a dental hygienist would

take?

15. 1st biennium of licensure: When are licensees excused from CE?

16. Practicing hygienist or dentist: Who of the following are required to take CE

credits?