Licensure

Electronic Fingerprint Requirement Information

For all DHCC renewal cycles beginning July 01, 2011, electronic fingerprinting will be a required component. If your renewal cycle begins after July 01, 2011, you will be required to have your fingerprints recorded using the Livescan service in California if you have not already done so. Unfortunately, the paper fingerprint cards used historically no longer fulfill this new legal requirement.
The procedure is modern and efficient. The technology is called Livescan and the process is as simple as rolling your fingers on glass. No longer is it necessary to get ink on your fingers.

Livescan is available for applicants and renewal licensees within California. A list of locations can be found here:
California Livescan Locations: http://ag.ca.gov/fingerprints/publications/contact.php

Please print the DHCC Livescan form and take it to a location listed in the link, above.

DHCC Livescan Forms: http://dhcc.ca.gov/formspubs/index.shtml#forms

Notice: There is a unique DHCC Livescan form for RDH, RDHAP, and RDHEF. It is important to use the correct DHCC Livescan form as each form contains specific routing information that specifically routes your information to us. Our Livescan forms are used for both renewing licensees and new applicants.

We are prohibited by law to share fingerprint information with any other association. For instance, if you were fingerprinted by DMV, the Dental Board of California, or perhaps for an employment background check, the information you submitted is specific to the association to which your information was submitted. The DHCC cannot request, retrieve, or otherwise legally acquire information previously submitted by you to any other association.

 

Dental Hygiene Committee of California
2005 Evergreen Street, Suite 1050
Toll free:  (866) 810-9899
Phone: (916) 263-1978
Fax: (916) 263-2688
Web site: DHCC.ca.gov

Western Regional Dental Hygiene Examination approved for
California Dental Hygiene Licensure


California will soon be listed as one of the states accepting the dental hygiene clinical examination administered by the western Regional Examination Board or WREB, thus dramatically increasing the portability of a dental hygiene license across the country.

WREB, a not for profit testing agency administered its first examination in 1977 in Oregon. Since then WREB has grown to include 15 member states as well as having its test results recognized by an additional 16 non-member states. The WREB has been a recognized examination for dentistry in California since 2006. Click here for more information on the WREB.
 
The first step towards accepting results from WREB for dental hygiene licensure in California were achieved in August of this year when Governor Schwarzenegger signed AB403 which allows for WREB examination results to be recognized for the clinical dental  examination in California. The next step will be for the newly formed Dental Hygiene Committee of California to establish the regulations for this process which may take up to two years.
Watch the CDHA web site for the latest information on this process.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Electronic Fingerprint Requirement Information
For all DHCC renewal cycles beginning July 01, 2011, electronic fingerprinting will be a required component. If your renewal cycle begins after July 01, 2011, you will be required to have your fingerprints recorded using the Livescan service in California if you have not already done so. Unfortunately, the paper fingerprint cards used historically no longer fulfill this new legal requirement.

The procedure is modern and efficient. The technology is called Livescan and the process is as simple as rolling your fingers on glass. No longer is it necessary to get ink on your fingers.

Livescan is available for applicants and renewal licensees within California. A list of locations can be found here:
California Livescan Locations: http://ag.ca.gov/fingerprints/publications/contact.php

Please print the DHCC Livescan form and take it to a location listed in the link, above.

DHCC Livescan Forms: http://dhcc.ca.gov/formspubs/index.shtml#forms

Notice: There is a unique DHCC Livescan form for RDH, RDHAP, and RDHEF. It is important to use the correct DHCC Livescan form as each form contains specific routing information that specifically routes your information to us. Our Livescan forms are used for both renewing licensees and new applicants.

We are prohibited by law to share fingerprint information with any other association. For instance, if you were fingerprinted by DMV, the Dental Board of California, or perhaps for an employment background check, the information you submitted is specific to the association to which your information was submitted. The DHCC cannot request, retrieve, or otherwise legally acquire information previously submitted by you to any other association.