Wisconsin Dental Practice Act

Wisconsin Dental Pratice Act

Follow the link below to view a copy of the Wisconsin Dental Practice Act (Chapter 447).


Administrative rules contents

Dentistry Examining Board
Chapter DE 1 - Authority & Definitions

  • DE 1.01 Authority
  • DE 1.02 Definitions

Chapter DE 2 - Licensure

  • DE 2.01 - Application for licensure
  • DE 2.015 - Faculty license
  • DE 2.02 - Duration of license
  • DE 2.03 - Biennial renewal
  • DE 2.04 - Endorsement
  • DE 2.05 - Examination passing score
  • DE 2.06 - Unauthorized assistance
  • DE 2.07 - Examination review
  • DE 2.08 - Claim of examination error
  • DE 2.09 - Failure and re-examination

Chapter DE 3 - Practice of Dental Hygiene

  • DE 3.01 - Supervision
  • DE 3.02 - Practice of dental hygiene defined
  • DE 3.03 - Prohibited practices
  • DE 3.04 - Oral systemic premedications and subgingival sustained release chemotherapeutic agents

Chapter DE 4 - Educational Programs Meeting Licensing and Certificaton Requirements

  • DE 4.01 - Board approval
  • DE 4.02 - Evaluation programs for foreign graduates

Chapter DE 5 - Standards of Conduct

  • DE 5.01 - Authority
  • DE 5.02 - Unprofessional conduct
  • DE 5.03 - Prohibited practice

Chapter DE 6 - Unprofessional advertising

  • DE 6.01 - Authority
  • DE 6.02 - Unprofessional advertising

Chapter DE 7 - Certification of Dental Hygienists to Administer Local Anesthesia

  • DE 7.01 - Authority
  • DE 7.02 - Definitions
  • DE 7.03 - Qualifications for certification of licensed dental hygienists to administer local anesthetic
  • DE 7.04 - Application procedure
  • DE 7.05 - Educational requirements
  • DE 7.06 - Dentist responsibility for the administration of local anesthetic

Chapter DE 9 - Laboratories and Work Authorizations

  • DE 9.01 - Laboratories; definition
  • DE 9.02 - Work authorizations

Chapter DE 11 - Anesthesia

  • DE 11.01 - Authority and purpose
  • DE 11.02 - Definitions
  • DE 11.03 - Restrictions on the use of general anesthesia and deep sedation
  • DE 11.04 - Restrictions on the use of parenteral sedation
  • DE 11.05 - Restrictions on the use of nitrous oxide inhalation sedation
  • DE 11.06 - Risk management
  • DE 11.07 - Examination
  • DE 11.08 - Complications and emergencies
  • DE 11.09 - Drugs
  • DE 11.10 - Recordkeeping
  • DE 11.11 - Office facilities and equipment
  • DE 11.12 - Reports of death or injury to the Dentistry Examining Board

Chapter DE 12 - Delegation of Functions to Unlicensed Persons

  • DE 12.01 - Nondelegated functions
  • DE 12.02 - Training
  • DE 12.03 - Reporting violations
  • DE 12.04 - Allowable delegation

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Last updated April 14, 2010 10:14 a.m.