New Meixco Dental CE Requirements

New Mexico Dental Continuing Education Requirements: Click Here
  • Dentists – 60 CE’s for relicensure. 30 CE’s can be home study.
  • Registered Dental Hygienists – 45 CE’s for relicensure. 15 CE’s can be home study.
  • Registered Dental Assistants – 30 CE’s for relicensure. 30 CE’s can be home study.
  • All New Mexico dental professionals are required to complete a course in Infection Control.
  • Dental Assistants are required to complete a 3 CE course in Radiographic Technique or Safety and Protection.
  • Licenses must be renewed every 3 years

 

Pain Management Continuing Education: This section applies to all New Mexico dentists who hold a federal drug enforcement administration registration and licensure to prescribe opioids. Pursuant to the Pain Relief Act in order to ensure that all such health care practitioners safely prescribe for pain management and harm reduction, the following rules shall apply. 

A. Immediate requirements effective 2013 and no later than June 30, 2014, all New Mexico Dental licensees who hold a federal drug enforcement administration registration and licensure to prescribe opioids, shall complete no less than 3 Hours of continuing dental education hours in appropriate courses that shall include:

(1) an understanding of the pharmacology and risks on controlled substances,
(2) a basic awareness of the problems of abuse, addiction and diversion,
(3) awareness of state and federal regulations for the prescription of controlled substances,
(4) management of the treatment of pain, and
(5) courses may also include a review of this rule (16.5.57 NMAC); the applicability of such courses toward the fulfillment of the continuing education requirement is subject to board approval; dentists who have taken continuing education hours in these educational elements between July 1, 2012 and xx-xx, 2013, may apply those hours toward the required continuing education hours described in this section.

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Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement.
4/20/2013 to 4/30/2029. Academy of General Dentistry (AGD PACE) Provider ID# 352738

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