California-licensed dentists who do not have a fingerprint on record in the dental board’s section of the Department of Consumer Affairs’ online licensing and enforcement system BreEZe will be required to submit or resubmit their fingerprint before renewing their license.
The BreEZe system has been flagging licensee accounts for which a fingerprint record does not exist — either because the board never fingerprinted the licensee or because the licensee’s fingerprint record was not linked correctly to the licensee’s account in BreEZe. Fingerprints submitted to other governmental agencies are not shared with the board.
The dental board stated in a Feb. 5 email to subscribers that “licensees will receive a notice from the board approximately 90 days before their license expires.” The board stopped sending and accepting renewal applications by mail in July 2021.
Read the dental board’s alert for details on how to locate a Live Scan fingerprinting service and submit a fingerprint for license renewal.