Sec. 08.32.030. - Licensure by credentials. - Alaska Statutes

The board may provide for the licensing without examination of a dental hygienist who

(1) meets the criteria of AS 08.32.020 (a);

(2) has successfully passed a state or regional dental hygiene clinical examination that the board has determined is at least equivalent in scope, quality, and difficulty to the Alaska clinical examination;

(3) has been in active clinical dental hygiene practice averaging not less than 700 hours a year for each of the two years immediately preceding application for state licensure;

(4) has not failed the clinical dental hygiene examination of this state;

(5) has not previously had a license to practice dental hygiene issued by any state or region revoked;

(6) has completed not less than 14 hours of continuing education related to clinical hygiene in the two years before filing an application with the board; the continuing education required under this paragraph must be approved by the board, the American Dental Association, the Academy of General Dentistry, or the American Dental Hygienists' Association;

(7) pays the fees required under AS 08.32.097 ; and

(8) is not the subject of an unresolved complaint, review procedure, or disciplinary proceeding undertaken by a dental or dental hygiene licensing jurisdiction.