SB0335 Summary

• Adds "dental anesthesiology" as a recognized specialty branch of dentistry in the Illinois Dental Practice Act.

• Changes the National Board Dental Examination requirement from "both parts of the" exam to "the integrated" exam for dental license applicants.

• Replaces the North East Regional Board (NERB) with the Commission on Dental Competency Assessments (CDCA) as an approved regional dental testing service.

• Clarifies that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may suspend a regional testing service if examination integrity is breached or the test is fundamentally deficient in testing clinical competency.