Your Dental Advocates in Maine

The Maine Board of Dental Examiners was established in 1891 to protect the lives and health of citizens through regulation of the practice of dentistry.

The primary responsibilities of the Board are to license qualified applicants for a certificate to practice dentistry, dental hygiene, denturism, expanded function dental assisting, and dental radiography; collect payment of specified fees to register dentists, dental hygienists, and denturists biennially, and expanded function dental assistants (EFDA’s) and radiographers every five years; to make such rules, not contrary to law, as the Board deems necessary; to investigate all complaints and all cases of noncompliance with, or violations of, the provisions of law relating to the above licensees; and to impose discipline when it is deemed appropriate.