Welcome to the Dental Homepage
The Colorado Dental Board regulates and licenses dentists and dental hygienists. The Board does not regulate or require the registration of dental assistants or expanded duty dental assistants. The Board also does not license based upon specialty.
The mission of the Colorado Dental Board is to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of the people of Colorado by developing and maintaining rules and policies to ensure that only qualified persons are licensed to provide dental care and that violators of the laws and rules regulating dentistry are sanctioned as appropriate. Board activities include licensing dentists and dental hygienists, investigating complaints about the licensed and unlicensed practice of dentistry and dental hygiene, disciplining those who violate the law and/or the Board's Rules and make, amend, and adopt reasonable rules and regulations governing the conduct of dentists and dental hygienists. The Board is made up of thirteen members: six dentists, three dental hygienists and three public members.
Program Information
- Program/Board Members
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Yukon Morford, Program Director
Colorado Dental Board
1560 Broadway, Suite 1350
Denver, CO 80202Phone: 303-894-7800 | Fax: 303-894-0144 | Email: dora_dentalboard@state.co.us
Mark Adams, DDS, MS, Board Chair
Professional Member | Term Expires: January 1, 2025Panel A:
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Paige McEvoy, RDH, EdD, Panel Chair
Professional Member | Term Expires: January 1, 2023 -
Rominder Kaur, DDS, Panel Vice Chair
Professional Member |Term Expires: January 1, 2025 -
Lisa Carlson-Marks, DDS
Professional Member | Term Expires: January 1, 2024 -
Vacant
Public Member | Term Expires: January 1, 2025 -
Jamie Marquez, DMD
Professional Member | Term Expires: January 1, 2026 -
Colleen Lampron, MPH
Public Member | Term Expires: January 1, 2026
Panel B:
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Vidhyalakshmi Sampath, DDS, Panel Chair
Professional Member | Term Expires: January 1, 2023 -
Natalie Schafer, DDS, MS,. Panel Vice Chair
Professional Member | Term Expires: January 1, 2024 -
Bryan Limmer, DMD, MS
Professional Member | Term Expires: January 1, 2025 -
Angela Rhoades, RDH
Professional Member | Term Expires: January 1, 2025 -
Evon Holladay, MBA
Public Member| Term Expires: January 1, 2023 -
Willie Johnson, RDH
Professional Member | Term Expires: January 1, 2025
Anesthesia Application Consultant Committee:
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Tyler Borg, DDS
Term Expires: January 1, 2025 -
Katherine Chin, DDS
Term Expires: January 1, 2023 -
Nicolas Politano, DDS
Term Expires: January 1, 2023 -
Taylor Clark, DDS
Term Expires: January 1, 2023 -
Sara Weinstein, DDS
Term Expires: January 1, 2025
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- Public Notices
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Dental Board
Joint Stakeholder Meeting - August 12, 2022
The Division of Professions and Occupations' will hold a Joint Stakeholder Meeting for all Healthcare Boards and Programs to allow stakeholders an opportunity to provide feedback, and help develop new and/or revised rules to implement Colorado House Bill 22-1284 (Concerning updates to state surprise billing laws to facilitate the implementation of surprise billing protections, and, in connection therewith, aligning state law with the federal "No Surprises Act").
- Friday, August 12, 2022, at 10:00 A.M. (MDT)
- Webinar Link
- Notice and HB22-1284
Joint Stakeholder Meeting - July 29, 2022
The Division of Professions and Occupations' held a Joint Stakeholder Meeting for all Boards and Programs that allowed stakeholders an opportunity to provide feedback, and help develop new rules to implement the directives of Executive Order D-2022-034 (Protecting Colorado’s Workforce and Expanding Licensing Opportunities).
Joint Stakeholder Meeting - July 22, 2022
The Division of Professions and Occupations' held a Joint Stakeholder Meeting for all healthcare Boards and Programs that allowed stakeholders an opportunity to provide feedback, and help develop new rules to implement the directives of Executive Order D-2022-032 (Directing State Agencies to Protect Access to Reproductive Health Care in Colorado).
Joint Stakeholder Meeting - June 10, 2022
The Division of Professions and Occupations (Division) will hold a Joint Stakeholder Meeting to allow stakeholders an opportunity to provide feedback on the implementation of Colorado Senate Bill 22-116 (Concerning the ability of an individual to obtain an occupational credential through the occupational credential portability program) which amends the Red Tape Reduction Act (HB20-1326/Section 12-20-202, C.R.S.); and subsequent proposed draft rules for each Board/Program. In an effort to provide advanced notice of this meeting, the draft rules for each Board/Program will not be available until Friday, May 27, 2022. To review the draft rules, please click on the "Notice, SB22-116, and Draft Rules" link below, on or after the availability date
- Friday, June 10, 2022, at 9:00 A.M. (MDT)
- Webinar Registration Notice
- SB22-116, and Draft Rules
Emergency and Permanent Rulemaking Hearing - November 4, 2021
The Colorado Dental Board held an Emergency and Permanent Rulemaking Hearing on November 4, 2021, that allowed stakeholders a final opportunity to provide feedback before the Board considered adopting revisions to multiple rules to fix typographical errors, correct references to rules and statutes, and correct language in the rules that conflicted with portions of the statutes, as required by the Office of Legislative Legal Services; revisioned Rule 1.6, to implement Colorado Senate Bill 21-077 (Concerning the elimination of verification of an individual's lawful presence in the United States as a requirement for individual credentialing); and considered adopting new Rule 1.31, to implement Colorado House Bill 21-1276 (Concerning the prevention of substance use disorders). The new rule to implement HB21-1276 (Rule 1.31), was considered on an emergency basis, to comply with the bill’s November 1, 2021, effective date.
- Notice, Draft Rules, Written Comments, SB21-077, and HB21-1276
- HB21-1276 Joint Stakeholder Meeting (recording): July 23, 2021
- SB21-077 Joint Stakeholder Meeting (recording): July 26, 2021
- Stakeholder Meeting (recording): September 30, 2021
- Stakeholder Meeting (recording): October 18, 2021
- Emergency Rule Effective Date: November 4, 2021
- Permanent Rules Effective Date: December 30, 2021
Permanent Rulemaking Hearing - July 14, 2021
The Colorado Dental Board held a Permanent Rulemaking Hearing on July 14, 2021, that allowed stakeholders a final opportunity to provide feedback before the Board considered adopting revisions to Rules 1.25 and 1.26, to implement Colorado Senate Bill 21-102 (Concerning the continuation of specific dental hygienist functions, and, in connection therewith, implementing the recommendations contained in the 2020 sunset report by the Department of Regulatory Agencies).
- Notice, Draft Rules, and SB21-120
- Stakeholder Meeting (recording): May 25, 2021
- Effective Date: September 14, 2021
Permanent Rulemaking Hearing - May 6, 2021
The Colorado Dental Board will hold a Permanent Rulemaking Hearing to allow stakeholders a final opportunity to provide feedback before the Board considers adopting revisions to Rule 1.30 to correct language that conflicts with portions of the statute in Colorado Senate Bill 20-102 (Concerning required disclosures to patients regarding formal actions based on sexual misconduct).
- Thursday, May 6, 2021, at 1:45 P.M. (MDT)
- Notice, Draft Rule, and SB20-102
- Joint Stakeholder Meeting (SB20-102): February 11, 2021
- Stakeholder Meeting (SB20-102 and On-Demand Courses): March 23, 2021
- Legislative Updates
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- 2022 New Legislation
- HB22-1041: Privacy Protections For Protected Persons
- HB22-1098: Department Of Regulatory Agencies Barriers To Practice Regulated Professions
- HB22-1165 Rule Review Bill
- HB22-1240 Mandatory Reporters
- HB22-1267 Culturally Relevant Training Health Professionals
- HB22-1270 Change Term Name-based Criminal History Record Check
- HB22-1257: 2022 Criminal And Juvenile Justice Commission Recommendations
- HB22-1278: Behavioral Health Administration
- SB22-013: Boards and Commissions
- SB22-027: Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
- SB22-058: Dental Hygienists Peer Health Assistance Program
- SB22-076: Complaint Occupational License Official Acts
- SB22-116: Increase Occupational Credential Portability
- SB22-143: Update Common Provision Term Regulator Title 12
- SB22-162: Administration Organization Act Modernization
- SB22-174: Sunset Review Hearing Criteria
- SB22-219: Regulate Dental Therapists
- SB22-226: Programs To Support Health-care Workforce
- 2021 New Legislation
- HB21-1012: Expand Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
- HB21-1169: Prohibit Discrimination Organ Transplant Recipient
- HB 21-1123: CAPS Check for Substantiated Cases of Mistreatment of an At-Risk Adult
- HB21-1198: Healthcare Billing Requirements for Indigent Patients
- HB21-1232: Standardized Health Benefit Plan Colorado Option
- HB21-1276 Prevention of Substance Use Disorders
- HB21-1300: Health-care Provider Liens for Injured Persons
- HB21:1317: Regulating Marijuana Concentrates
- HB21-1297: Pharmacy Benefit Manager and Insurer Requirements
- SB21-077: Remove Lawful Presence Verification Credentialing
- SB21-094: Sunset Continue State Board of Pharmacy
- SB21-097: Sunset Medical Transparency Act
- SB21-098: Sunset Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
- SB21-102: Sunset Dental Hygienists Specialized Functions
- SB21-122: Opiate Antagonist Bulk Purchase And Standing Orders
- SB21-011: Pharmacist Prescribe Dispense Opiate Antagonist
- SB21-271: Misdemeanor Reform
- 2020 New Legislation
- 2022 New Legislation
- Meeting Minutes
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Annual Designation of Meetings
Full Board Meeting Minutes
- May 5, 2022, Dental Board Meeting Minutes
- January 12, 2022, Dental Board Meeting Minutes
- November 4, 2021, Dental Board Meeting Minutes
Panel A Meeting Minutes
- June 8, 2022, Dental Panel A Meeting Minutes
- May 4, 2022, Dental Panel A Meeting Minutes
- March 23, 2022, Dental Panel A Meeting Minutes
Panel B Meeting Minutes