New Jersey CDE Requirements

Registered Dental Assistant (RDA)

# CDE Required: 10 hours*

Required Topics: General Dentistry, Scientific (including CPR or ACLS certification), or a teaching and research appointment

Renewal Period: Every 2 years

More information: New Jersey State Board of Dentistry Rules (Regulation 13:30-5.3)

Notes: No more than 5 CE hours may be obtained through written or electronic media distance learning courses.

*In addition to the CE requirements for all RDAs, an RDA who monitors patients to whom a supervising dentist has administered nitrous oxide/oxygen inhalation analgesia must complete a three-hour didactic or clinical course in nitrous oxide/oxygen inhalation analgesia in every other registration renewal period.