Florida Laws and Rules Dental Hygiene Board Exam
(ADEX/CDCA 2025) – Complete Q&A Guide with
Verified Legal Standards
/. Dentistry - Answer-✅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
/.Dental Hygiene - Answer-✅the rendering of educational, preventative, and therapeutic
dental services and any related extra-oral procedure required in the performance of
services
/.Governor of Florida - Answer-✅Who appoints the board of dentistry members?
/.Irremediable tasks - Answer-✅Intraoral treatment tasks which are irreversible and
create unaltered changes within the oral cavity
/.Remediable tasks - Answer-✅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
/.Irremediable - Answer-✅Applying topical with jet spray is what type of task?
/.Remediable - Answer-✅A dental hygienist who applies bleaching solution, activates
light source, monitors and removes in office bleaching materials is performing a ______
task
/.Re-cementing temp crowns with temp cement - Answer-✅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?
/.Irremediable - Answer-✅The use of a laser or laser type device is considered to be
what type of task?
/.Dental hygienists & assistants - Answer-✅Who may perform emergency remediable
tasks under conditions specified in the laws?
, /.50 min - Answer-✅How many minutes are equivalent to one hour of continuing
education?
/.Chemotherapeutic agents - Answer-✅What is not an appropriate topic for continuing
education?
/.Board approved individual study - Answer-✅What is an appropriate educational
activity or topic for continuing education?
/.Pt stress management - Answer-✅What is an example of a CE a dental hygienist
would take?
/.1st biennium of licensure - Answer-✅When are licensees excused from CE?
/.Practicing hygienist or dentist - Answer-✅Who of the following are required to take CE
credits?
/.Writing within the scope of dentistry - Answer-✅Which of the following is legal of a
dentist writing prescriptions?
/.False - Answer-✅If 40 hours of CE are taken in 1 biennium, the remaining hours taken
can count toward renewal requirement for the next biennium. True/False
/.True - Answer-✅A dentist or hygienist takes a 10 hr HIV/AIDs course. The remaining 9
hours could count for their remaining 24 or 30 hours required for licensure renewal.
True/False
/.Dental license # - Answer-✅What must be included in a prescription for a prescription
strength fluoride gel?
/.True - Answer-✅If the dentist uses anesthesia in his office, his/her staff has to be
properly trained in anticonvulsants. T/F
/.Board of Dentistry - Answer-✅Who grants sedation permits?
/.NO - Answer-✅A dental hygienist under the ____ supervision of a dentist may
administer local anesthesia, including intraoral block anesthesia, soft tissue infiltration
anesthesia, or both, to a non-sedated patient who is 15 or older, if they meet criteria
outlined in the laws manual
/.Altered state of consciousness - Answer-✅Nitrous oxide produces:
/.Pt's physical ability - Answer-✅With conscious sedation, it must not effect what?
(ADEX/CDCA 2025) – Complete Q&A Guide with
Verified Legal Standards
/. Dentistry - Answer-✅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
/.Dental Hygiene - Answer-✅the rendering of educational, preventative, and therapeutic
dental services and any related extra-oral procedure required in the performance of
services
/.Governor of Florida - Answer-✅Who appoints the board of dentistry members?
/.Irremediable tasks - Answer-✅Intraoral treatment tasks which are irreversible and
create unaltered changes within the oral cavity
/.Remediable tasks - Answer-✅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
/.Irremediable - Answer-✅Applying topical with jet spray is what type of task?
/.Remediable - Answer-✅A dental hygienist who applies bleaching solution, activates
light source, monitors and removes in office bleaching materials is performing a ______
task
/.Re-cementing temp crowns with temp cement - Answer-✅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?
/.Irremediable - Answer-✅The use of a laser or laser type device is considered to be
what type of task?
/.Dental hygienists & assistants - Answer-✅Who may perform emergency remediable
tasks under conditions specified in the laws?
, /.50 min - Answer-✅How many minutes are equivalent to one hour of continuing
education?
/.Chemotherapeutic agents - Answer-✅What is not an appropriate topic for continuing
education?
/.Board approved individual study - Answer-✅What is an appropriate educational
activity or topic for continuing education?
/.Pt stress management - Answer-✅What is an example of a CE a dental hygienist
would take?
/.1st biennium of licensure - Answer-✅When are licensees excused from CE?
/.Practicing hygienist or dentist - Answer-✅Who of the following are required to take CE
credits?
/.Writing within the scope of dentistry - Answer-✅Which of the following is legal of a
dentist writing prescriptions?
/.False - Answer-✅If 40 hours of CE are taken in 1 biennium, the remaining hours taken
can count toward renewal requirement for the next biennium. True/False
/.True - Answer-✅A dentist or hygienist takes a 10 hr HIV/AIDs course. The remaining 9
hours could count for their remaining 24 or 30 hours required for licensure renewal.
True/False
/.Dental license # - Answer-✅What must be included in a prescription for a prescription
strength fluoride gel?
/.True - Answer-✅If the dentist uses anesthesia in his office, his/her staff has to be
properly trained in anticonvulsants. T/F
/.Board of Dentistry - Answer-✅Who grants sedation permits?
/.NO - Answer-✅A dental hygienist under the ____ supervision of a dentist may
administer local anesthesia, including intraoral block anesthesia, soft tissue infiltration
anesthesia, or both, to a non-sedated patient who is 15 or older, if they meet criteria
outlined in the laws manual
/.Altered state of consciousness - Answer-✅Nitrous oxide produces:
/.Pt's physical ability - Answer-✅With conscious sedation, it must not effect what?
