2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 2 - HEALING ARTS
CHAPTER 4 - Dentistry
ARTICLE 2 - Admission and Practice
Section 1630.

Universal Citation:
CA Bus & Prof Code § 1630 (2025)
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1630. The examination of applicants for a license to practice dentistry in this state, as described in Section 1632, shall be sufficiently thorough to test the fitness of the applicant to practice dentistry, and shall include assessing competency in the areas of diagnosis, treatment planning, and restorative, endodontic, periodontic, and prosthetic dentistry. Both questions and answers shall be written in the English language.

(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 865, Sec. 31. (AB 1519) Effective January 1, 2020.)

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