CE Credits

Dentists and allied dental professionals often seek CE courses from ADA CERP recognized providers to fulfill their CE requirements for re-licensure. Most state and provincial licensing boards will accept CE credits issued by ADA CERP recognized providers. In the spring of 2003, the FDI World Dental Federation became the first internationally based CE provider to be granted ADA CERP recognition.

Please contact your state board directly for their specific rules and regulations. Most states approve supervised self-study courses that are ADA CERP accredited.

I have written three courses for dental professionals (Dentists, Assistants, Hygienists, Dental Laboratory Technicians and those in related fields). I hope you will find them interesting and enjoyable, as well as educational. These courses are available to read at no charge, and are linked both on this page and on the index page in the dental materials section.

After reading either course, you may click on the link provided in the white box at the top of each page to be directed to the site where you may take the test. The test questions are also viewable at no charge. If you wish to obtain continuing education credits for these courses, you must register with the testing authority and pay the required fee. You may retake the test as many times as necessary. The tests are graded and certificates issued immediately.

Dental Alloys : Dentists spend large amounts of time ordering and inserting cast metal restorations without ever really understanding what goes into them. This short course fills in the gaps and allows dental professionals to understand just what they are placing in the patient's mouth. You will learn about the history, crystalline structure, and different types of castable dental alloys. This course includes details on the purpose of the specific metals used in the formulation of dental alloys as well as what it takes to make porcelain adhere to a metal substructure. You will also learn why pure gold is soft, gold alloys are hard, and wrought wire is springy. This course dovetails nicely with the Dental Ceramics course described below. This is a five page course and is worth 2 CE credits. The credits for this course cost $30.

Those interested in receiving 2 continuing education credits for this course may take the 20 question test at a cost of $30 and receive their certificate immediately by clicking here, or you may view the dental materials course syllabus to see discounts on the entire package by clicking here.

Dental Ceramics: Very few dentists, hygienists or assistants understand much about the many different types of ceramic restorations available today. By reading this material, you will learn about the history and the internal structure of ceramic bodies starting at the potters wheel. The course takes you through sintered crystalline structures, the chemistry of glass and feldspathic porcelain all the way up through advanced ceramic cores. You will learn the difference between Empress, In-Ceram, Procera and Lava and how they are fabricated. This course dovetails nicely with the Dental Alloys course described above.

Those interested in receiving 3 continuing education credits for this course may take the 20 question test at a cost of $39 and receive their certificate immediately by clicking here, or you may view the dental materials course syllabus to see discounts on the entire package by clicking here.

Dental composites:

Dental Composites are an increasingly important part of any dental practice. Every dental professional knows that resin-glass restoratives are composites, but even most dentists do not realize that all dental cements are also composites. This course covers all areas of dental composites including glass ionomers polycarbonates, and zinc oxide based cements, as well as the different types of resin-glass composites. You will learn the difference between macrofills, microfills, nanofills, hybrids and nanohybrids, as well as the mechanisms of bonding. Why do glass ionomers stick to tooth structure without acid etching? How does dentinal bonding work? Why should you choose one composite over another? Why do some of your posterior composites seem to be pressure sensitive. These and numerous other questions are answered here.

Those interested in receiving 6 continuing education credits for this course may take the 20 question test at a cost of $54 and receive their certificate immediately by clicking here, or you may view the dental materials course syllabus to see discounts on the entire package by clicking here.

Dental Radiology: This course, for dentists, hygienists, dental assistants and radiographers covers virtually all aspects of oral radiography, including intraoral techniques, shadow casting principles, film basics and digital radiography, as well as the inside scoop on how advanced extraoral tomographic images are produced. You will review not only the basics, but learn exactly how a panoramic images is produced by shooting a beam through structures remote from the sensor or film. You will also learn how a CT scan produces the image of a slice through the human body, and how a Cone Beam can produce three dimensional images on a computer screen.
This course offers two testing options:

Those dentists, hygienists, dental assistants and radiographers interested in receiving 3 continuing education credits for this course may take a 10 question test at a cost of $35 and receive their certificate immediately by clicking here.

Those dentists, hygienists, dental assistants and radiographers interested in receiving 8 continuing education credits for this course may take a 25 question test at a cost of $66 and receive their certificate immediately by clicking here.

Note: There are no questions on tables or Glossary.