Continuing Education Resources


For Local Continuing Education...

Your dental hygiene association offers continuing education at local component and state meetings, available to both members and non-members. Find courses offered by a Local Association Component.

Also, consider contacting the nearest university dental school and/or dental hygiene program for a listing of their upcoming CE offerings.

If you have specific questions about the CE requirements in your state, or if you're not sure if the course will be accepted, please consult your state dental board. See CE Requirements by State for more details.

-	ADHA offers 21 Online Courses on a wide variety of topics, available for a reduced fee or free of charge. Successful participants of these courses will be awarded 2 CE hours for each course. Instructions, self-paced course modules and post tests are available online.
-	The ADHA DVD Quarterly is a journal publication offered exclusively in a DVD (Digital Video Disk) format. It can be viewed on any DVD player, connected to a television set or played on a DVD-equipped personal computer and is available to ADHA members through a yearly subscription. A yearly subscription provides 12 CE hours.
-	The Tobacco Cessation course offered by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, consists of eight modules and provides 12 CE hours upon completion.This self-paced, online course is designed as an introduction to the basic concepts needed by professionals who are working with tobacco users.
-	This Web-based continuing education course, Special Care: An Oral Health Professional’s Guide to Serving Young Children with Special Health Care Needs provides oral health professionals with information to ensure that young children with special health care needs have access to health-promotion and disease-prevention services that address their unique oral health needs in a comprehensive, family-centered, and community-based manner. Provided by ADHA and the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC), this course is free of charge and awards 4 CE hours.
-	Upcoming in 2009, the ADHA Annual Session offers the educational component of the Center for Lifelong Learning! Attend a wide variety of cutting edge CE programming in the dynamic city of Washington, DC that includes three days of individualized tracks for Clinicians, Educators, Students as well as an inspiring Lifestyles and Careers track to develop you as an individual!
-	Find a local anesthesia/nitrous course by contacting a dental program near you.   Select State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware D.C. Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Montana Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
-	Find a CPR course near you