Florida Dental Laws and Rules exam: the guide for dentists

Format

Computer-based, at a testing centre, in English — the same delivery as the hygiene paper, and a little longer. Every figure below was read on the examiner's own page or in the Board's rule, and the row says which.

What is on it

Rule 64B5-2.013 defines the written examination for dental licensure as the laws and rules of Florida regulating the practice of dentistry and dental hygiene. That is the same Chapter 466 / Chapter 456 / Division 64B5 corpus the hygiene paper is drawn from — which is why a hygienist and a dentist studying here read the same statute text, and answer different questions about it.

The blueprint RDHPass samples

The dentist module's domains and weights, read live from the database rather than retyped here. Delegation and supervision, practice ownership and dental laboratories, and the dentist-of-record duties carry the weight a hygienist's paper gives to scope of practice. Every mock you sit is sampled against exactly these percentages.

• Delegation and supervision of hygienists and assistants20%
• Practice ownership, dental laboratories, and advertising18%
• Discipline, penalties, and citations18%
• Licensure, renewal, and continuing education15%
• Dentist-of-record duties, retention, and prescriptions12%
• Anesthesia and sedation permits8%
• Board of Dentistry, definitions, and exemptions6%
• Department of Health general provisions (Ch. 456)3%

Topics that matter most

Delegation and supervision of hygienists and dental assistants (ss. 466.023–466.024, Rule 64B5-16); practice ownership, advertising and dental laboratories (ss. 466.028(1)(g), 466.031, Rule 64B5-15); grounds for discipline, penalties and citations (s. 466.028, Rule 64B5-13); licensure, renewal and continuing education (ss. 466.006–466.015, Rules 64B5-2 and 64B5-12); anaesthesia and sedation permits (s. 466.017, Rule 64B5-14); and the dentist of record's duties over patient records, retention and prescriptions (s. 466.018, Rule 64B5-17).

Register and pay

Registration is with ADEX, on the same candidate portal as every other part of the series, and it is independent of RDHPass — you sit this exam whether or not you study with us. The state application and licence fees are separate and go to the Florida Department of Health.

What RDHPass simulates

The dentist module is open. It runs on the same engine, the same corpus and the same review workflow as the hygiene exam, over a bank of dentist-scoped items written against this blueprint and read by a reviewer before it was approved.

• The full-length paper, with the field-test items included and left out of the score, on a server-authoritative clock.
• The dentist blueprint above, sampled over the statute and rule sections in the library — the very same rows the hygiene module reads.
• Practice by domain, spaced review and the progress report, in English, Spanish and Portuguese, exactly as the hygiene module has them.
• It is a separate module with its own price. Buying the hygiene exam does not include it, and we say so plainly rather than quietly.
• The course layer — the study notes, their citations and their checks — is written for the hygiene paper first. The dentist module ships the bank, the mocks, the library and the review deck today, and its own study notes follow.

Official sources

• ADEX · Florida Laws and Rules examinations
• Rule 64B5-2.013, F.A.C. · Dental Examination
• CDCA · Name-change notice
• ADEX · Candidate portal

Facts verified September 6, 2026 on the official pages linked above.