Current through Reg. 50, No. 187; September 24, 2024
The Florida dental clinical or practical examination is
currently the American Dental Licensing Examination (ADLEX) developed by the
American Board of Dental Examiners, Inc. The examination shall be administered
in Florida and shall be graded by dentists licensed in Florida. An applicant
for a dental license in Florida can submit ADLEX scores from a jurisdiction
other than Florida if the examination was completed after October 1, 2011.
Applicants who are relocating to this state based on scores from the ADLEX that
was administered in a jurisdiction other than Florida must engage in the
Full-time Practice of Dentistry inside the geographical boundaries of this
state within the first year of receiving a dental license in Florida. In order
to maintain the dental license the licensee must meet the following
criteria.
(1) Applicable Definitions:
(a) Full-time Practice - means completing one
thousand two hundred (1, 200) hours of practice within the geographical
boundaries of Florida within the first year of obtaining a Florida dental
license.
(b) Practice - means any
combination of the following:
1) Active
clinical practice of dentistry providing direct patient care;
2) Full-time Practice as a faculty member
employed by a dental or dental hygiene school approved by the board or
accredited by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental
Accreditation; or
3) Full-time
Practice as a student at a postgraduate dental education program approved by
the board or accredited by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental
Accreditation.
(c)
Another or Other Jurisdiction - means another state or territory of the United
States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(d) Full-time Practice Log - means a log the
licensee must keep from the initial date of licensure in Florida which
documents the daily practice time of the licensee.
(e) Relocating Applicants - means those
applicants who are lawfully and currently practicing dentistry in another
jurisdiction who apply for licensure in Florida based on the ADLEX administered
in another jurisdiction. Lawfully and currently means those applicants that
have or had a license to practice dentistry in another jurisdiction within the
past six (6) months and those who have practiced the profession in any manner
utilizing such license within the past six (6)months, prior to submitting the
application for licensure in Florida.
(f) Verified - means the document shall be
verified in compliance with Section
92.525, F.S.
(2) Mandatory Criteria:
The licensee shall meet all of the following criteria.
(a) Compliance with all provisions of Section
466.006(6),
F.S. The dentist should carefully review this section of the Florida
Statutes.
(b) Provide documentation
that the relocating dentist has been consecutively engaged in full-time
practice within the first year of licensure in Florida.
(c) Maintain a Full-time Practice
Log.
(d) A failure to meet the
required full-time practice requirements will cause the dental license to
expire as enumerated in Section
466.006(6),
F.S.
(3) Mandatory
Documentation:
The dentist shall comply with providing the following
mandatory documentation.
(a) Full-Time
Practice Spreadsheet:
1. The submission of a
month-by-month chronological history of the dentist's full-time practice in a
spreadsheet format from the date of initial license in Florida.
2. The spreadsheet shall be headed with the
dentist's full legal name and sub-headed "History of Full-time
Practice."
3. Each page shall be
sequentially paginated in the lower right hand corner with the dentist's last
name followed by a hyphen with an Arabic numeral. (Example: Smith-2, Smith-3,
Smith-4, etcetera.).
4. The dentist
shall verify the Full-time Practice Spreadsheet by placing at the end of the
document, "Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have read the foregoing
History of Full-time Practice Spreadsheet and that the facts stated in it are
true." The dentist shall sign directly under the verification statement and
date the document. Reference Section
92.525, F.S., concerning
verification of documents.
5.
Someone unrelated to the dentist shall verify the Full-time Practice
Spreadsheet, by signing the same document with the same verification clause or
by submitting a document (affidavit) verified in compliance with Section
92.525, F.S. The verified
document must attest that the dentist has been engaged in the full-time
practice as indicated by the Full-time Practice
Spreadsheet.
(b)
Additional Verified Documents:
Each category of Full-time Practice claimed must be supported
by the following documentation, which establishes or supports the spreadsheet
submitted.
1. A verified copy of
financial or business record documents, reflecting the dates of employment that
match the spreadsheet; a verified copy of a patient log or appointment schedule
(names of patients shall be redacted to reflect initials only). The Board will
request verified financial billing documents to corroborate the patient log if
the Board finds the patient log or appointment schedule lacking
credibility.
2. A verified copy of
the Full-time Practice Log.
3. An
original and official letter from the dean of the school or program sent
directly from the program or school to the Board, that supports that the
dentist did engage in full-time practice as a faculty member or as a student
which matches the dates month-for-month as listed on the spreadsheet.
4. Any other verified document that supports
the Full-Time Practice Spreadsheet.
(4) Mandatory Submission:
(a) All documentation shall be submitted to
the Board office within thirty days prior to the expiration of the first year
of practice. The initial day of licensure shall not count. A failure to timely
submit all required documentation will lead to the expiration of licensure in
compliance with Section
466.006(6)(c),
F.S.
(b) The dentist shall make
certain that all submissions are timely, accurate, legible, and authentic to
avoid the expiration of the dental licensee. The Board is authorized to require
the licensee and the licensees' witnesses to appear before the Board and give
oral testimony under oath to assess credibility and
accuracy.
Rulemaking Authority
466.004 (4),
466.006(6) (b)2
FS. Law Implemented 466.004, 466.006(6)
FS.
New 5-13-12.
