§ 6604-a. Mandatory continuing education for dentists. 1. (a) Each\ndentist, licensed pursuant to this article, required to register\ntriennially with the department to practice in this state shall comply\nwith the provisions of the mandatory continuing education requirements,\nexcept as set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subdivision.\nDentists who do not satisfy the mandatory continuing education\nrequirements shall not practice until they have met such requirements\nand have been issued a registration or conditional registration\ncertificate.\n (b) Dentists shall be exempt from the mandatory continuing education\nrequirement for the triennial registration period during which they are\nfirst licensed. In accordance with the intent of this section,\nadjustments to the mandatory continuing education requirement may be\ngranted by the department for reasons of health, certified by a\nphysician, for extended active duty with the armed forces of the United\nStates, or for other good cause acceptable to the department which may\nprevent compliance.\n (c) A licensed dentist not engaged in public practice as an individual\npractitioner, a partner of a partnership, a shareholder of a\nprofessional service corporation, or an employee of such practice units,\nshall be exempt from the mandatory continuing education requirement upon\nthe filing of a statement with the department declaring such status. Any\nlicensee who returns to the public practice of dentistry during the\ntriennial registration period shall notify the department prior to\nreentering the profession and shall meet such mandatory continuing\neducation requirements as shall be prescribed by regulation of the\ncommissioner.\n 2. During each triennial registration period an applicant for\nregistration shall complete a minimum of sixty hours of acceptable\nformal continuing education, a maximum of eighteen hours of which may be\nself-instructional coursework as approved by the department. Beginning\nwith the first registration renewal period for any dentist occurring on\nor after January first, two thousand two, and before the occurrence of\nthe second registration renewal period following that date, a dentist\nshall have completed on a one-time basis, as part of the sixty hours of\nacceptable formal continuing education required by this section, no\nfewer than two hours of coursework and training regarding the chemical\nand related effects and usage of tobacco and tobacco products and the\nrecognition, diagnosis, and treatment of the oral health effects,\nincluding but not limited to cancers and other diseases, caused by\ntobacco and tobacco products, provided that any dentist who provides\nwritten proof satisfactory to the department that the dentist has\ncompleted, at any time subsequent to the effective date of this section,\nan approved mandatory continuing education course of not less than two\nhours in the same or substantially similar subject matter shall be\ndeemed to have met this requirement, and further provided that dentists\nwho are exempt from the mandatory continuing education requirement for\nthe triennial registration period during which they are first licensed\nshall also be exempt from this requirement for that period. Any dentist\nwhose first registration date following the effective date of this\nsection occurs less than three years from such effective date, but on or\nafter January first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight and before July\nfirst, two thousand eight, shall complete continuing education hours on\na prorated basis at the rate of one and one-quarter hours per month for\nthe period beginning January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven up to\nthe first registration date thereafter. For any registration period\nbeginning before July first, two thousand eight and ending on or after\nsuch date, each dentist shall complete continuing education hours on a\npro rata basis at a rate of one and one-quarter hours per month for the\nperiod endin
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