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I want to practise in New Zealand
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Dentists and dental specialists
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Dental hygienists
- Prescribed qualifications for dental hygienists
- Registering with a prescribed qualification
- New Zealand Dental Hygiene Registration Examination
- Apply for written examination
- Sit written examination
- Apply for clinical examination
- Sit clinical examination
- Apply for registration
- Resources for the examination
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Dental therapists
- Prescribed qualifications for dental therapists
- Registering with a prescribed qualification
- New Zealand Dental Therapy Registration Examination
- Apply for written examination
- Sit written examination
- Apply for clinical examination
- Sit clinical examination
- Apply for registration
- Resources for the examination
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Oral health therapists
- Prescribed qualifications for oral health therapists
- Registering with a prescribed qualification
- New Zealand Oral Health Therapy Registration Examination
- Apply for written examination
- Sit written examination
- Apply for clinical examination
- Sit clinical examination
- Apply for registration
- Resources for the examination
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Clinical dental technicians
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Dental technicians
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Orthodontic auxiliary
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Assessment of individual qualifications and experience
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English language
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Registering under Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition
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Fitness to register
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Examination eligibility criteria
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New graduates from Otago and AUT universities
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Assessment of individual qualifications, training and experience
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Case requirements for individual assessment of qualifications, training and experience
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Resources and publications
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Resources
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Fees
- Practising intention - dentists and dental specialists 23-24
- Setting of fees
- Practising intention - oral health therapists 24-25
- Practising intention - dental therapists 24-25
- Practising intention - dental hygienists and orthodontic auxiliaries 24-25
- Practising intention - dental and clinical dental technicians 24-25
- Registration and other fees for 2024-2025
- Practising intention - dentists and dental specialists 25-26
- Practising intention - oral health therapists 25-26
- Practising intention - dental therapists 25-26
- Practising intention - dental hygienists and orthodontic auxiliaries 25-26
- Practising intention - dental and clinical dental technicians 25-26
- Registration and other fees for 2025-2026
- Policies
- Find a registered practitioner
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- Examinations timetable
- Gazette notices
- Plain language guides on Council processes
- Regional hospital contact details
- Orthodontic treatment - patient information
- Ministry of Health guidance for tongue-tie in breastfeeding infants
- Tooth whitening information
- Online services
- Practice standards
- Guidance and principles
- Practitioner mental health and wellbeing
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Fees
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Publications
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- Current consultations
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Closed consultations
- Proposed changes to prescribed qualifications consultation submissions
- Infection Prevention and Control Practice Standard consultation submissions
- Oral health therapy scope of practice follow-up consultation submissions
- Updated sedation practice standard consultation submissions
- Consultation on the 2017/18 draft budgets, annual practising certificate (APC) fees, disciplinary levies and other fees submissions
- Professional Boundaries Practice Standard submissions
- Consultation on recertification submissions
- Patient records and privacy of health information practice standard submissions
- Consultation on short OHT fee submissions
- Consultation on 2018/19 budget, APC fees and disciplinary levies, and other fees submissions
- Informed consent practice standard submissions
- Recertification phase 2 submissions
- Consultation on 2019/20 draft budget, fees and levies submissions
- Consultation submissions on the age limit for restorative activities in the oral health therapy scope of practice
- Consultation submissions on a Naming Policy under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003
- Consultation submissions on proposed changes to scopes of practice and prescribed qualification
- Consultation submissions on proposed 2020/21 budget, fees and levies
- New Zealand consultation submissions on the joint Australia and New Zealand accreditation standards
- Australian consultation submissions on the joint Australia and New Zealand accreditation standards
- Consultation submissions on professional working relationships and hygiene scope changes
- Consultation submissions on proposed budget, APC fees and disciplinary levies
- Consultation submission - follow-up working relationships
- Consultation submission - professional competencies
- Consultation submission - 2022/23 budget and fees
- Consultation submissions -COVID-19 supplementary
- Consultation - FINAL competencies consultation appendices
- Budget 23/24 consultation submissions
- Consultation - DRAFT competencies consultation appendices
- Consultation submissions - Ireland recognition
- Budget 24/25 consultation submissions
- Consultation on proposed Naming policy changes
- Consultation submissions - Infection prevention and control practice standard
- Consultation submissions - 2025/26 budget, APC fees and disciplinary levies, and other fees
- Annual reports
- Strategic plan
- Workforce analysis
- Working in Aotearoa New Zealand handbook
- Confidence in your health practitioner
- Dental Council reports and discussion papers
- Submissions to external consultations
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Updates
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2020
- New graduate registration applications
- Patient Patient records and privacy of health information practice standardecords and privacy of he
- Orthodontic auxiliaries and dental assistants – staying safely in sight and in scope
- New Zealand accreditation committee established
- Update on novel coronavirus
- Ministry of Health, Dental Council and Professional Associations' joint statement: COVID-19 update
- MOH and Dental Council joint guidance
- Information for all health workers
- Update on guidelines
- Telehealth guidelines in dentistry
- Alert level 3 guidelines for oral health practitioners
- Update on COVID-19 pandemic response
- Guidelines for COVID-19 alert level 2 - PROVISIONAL high-level principles
- COVID-19, recertification, engagement update
- ACC claim code: Dental Consultation by Telehealth for COVID-19
- Update on resuscitation training requirements and responses during COVID-19, and ACC claim code
- Progress update on alert level 2 guidelines
- Alert level 2 guidelines issued
- COVID-19 update: Gowns at alert level 2 and price setting
- Dental Council update
- Update on advertising practice standard, negative pressure rooms, WHOreference
- Update on alert level 1 guidelines and Ministry of Health information for health workforce
- Guidelines for COVID-19 alert level 1
- Change to alert level 1 guidelines
- Ministry of Health notice about face masks
- Revision to joint alert level 1 guidelines
- MOH and Dental Council joint statement
- Extended waiver for prescribing
- Outcome from joint Australia and New Zealand accreditation standards consultation
- New Zealand moves to new COVID-19 alert levels
- New Zealand COVID-19 alert levels announced
- Prime Minister announces COVID-19 alert levels
- New Zealand COVID-19 alert level 2 announced for Auckland
- New Zealand COVID-19 alert level 2 announced for Auckland
- New Zealand COVID-19 alert level 2 announcement for Auckland
- COVID-19 alert level announcement
- Auckland to move to alert level 1
- Extended waiver for prescribing to 23 December 2020
- Consultation on proposed changes to the working relationship requirements for oral health practitioners with dentists, and the practising conditions for dental hygiene activities
- Further updates to joint alert level 1 guidelines
- Update on Alert level 3 guidelines for oral health practitioners
- New rules for electronic prescriptions to support virtual care in the community during COVID-19
- COVID-19, APC fees, recertification etc
- Consultation on proposed 2021/22 budget and fees
- Treatment of tongue-tie in breastfeeding babies
- Orthodontic working group report update
- Accreditation update
- Dental Council consultations open for feedback
- NZDA Checkup
- Office closing
- Change to mouthwash requirements in COVID-19 guidelines
- Waiver for prescribing extended to 22 March 2021
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2021
- Person ID number changes for some practitioners
- Auckland moves to COVID-19 alert level 3, rest of NZ to level 2, for three days
- Auckland moves to COVID-19 alert level 2, rest of NZ to level 1
- Auckland moves to COVID-19 alert level 1 from 11.59pm Monday 22 February
- Consultation outcome on the 2021/22 budget, fees and levies
- Auckland moves to COVID-19 alert level 3, rest of NZ to level 2, for seven days
- Upcoming annual practising renewal
- Treating patients who work at the New Zealand border or in a managed isolation or quarantine facility (MIQF)
- Auckland moves to COVID-19 alert level 2, rest of NZ to level 1
- Vaccinators
- Chair/Deputy Chair appointments
- Auckland moves to COVID-19 alert level 1 with the rest of NZ
- COVID-19 symptoms updated in guidelines
- Follow-up consultation on proposed changes to the working relationship requirements for oral health practitioners with dentists, and the practising conditions for dental hygiene activities
- New process for assessment of overseas qualifications, training and experience from 1 April 2021
- Workforce analysis report for 2018/19
- Practitioner article: Getting it right before things go wrong
- Update to COVID-19 alert level 1 guidelines
- Notice of new recertification programme
- COVID-19 vaccine and your professional responsibility
- Wellington moves to COVID-19 alert level 2, rest of NZ remains at alert level 1
- Wellington remains at COVID-19 alert level 2, with rest of NZ at alert level 1
- Wellington joins the rest of NZ at alert level 1
- Practitioner update – registration of interest as COVID-19 vaccinators
- Follow-up consultation outcome on proposed working relationship requirements, and dental hygiene practising conditions
- Growing cultural competence to deliver culturally safe care
- Consultation on proposed updates to professional competencies and changes to related scopes of practice
- Council membership changes and Working in Aotearoa NZ resource
- New Zealand moves to alert level 4
- Restored link to MOH guidance on fit testing of N95 masks
- New Zealand remains at alert level 4
- COVID-19 information for the public during alert level 4 lockdown
- New Zealand remains at COVID-19 alert level 4, and guidelines updated
- COVID-19 changes to Alert levels and level 4 guidelines
- Ongoing COVID-19 alert levels
- Update to COVID-19 alert level changes and updated guidelines
- COVID-19 alert levels unchanged
- COVID-19 update
- COVID-19 alert level changes
- COVID-19 guideline updates
- MOH message: Testing requirements for workforce of permitted businesses operating under Alert Level 3
- COVID-19 alert level change for parts of Waikato
- COVID-19 related updates
- Reminder to complete your current CPD requirements by 31 December 2021
- Consultation on proposed 2022/23 budget, fees and levies
- COVID-19 alert levels and vaccination
- COVID-19 mandatory vaccination
- Ministry of Health requirements on mandatory vaccination for health and disability sector workers
- Announced alert level changes and change to alert level 3 guidelines - multi chair clinics
- New graduate registration applications
- Mandatory vaccination order and guidelines published
- New link to MOH mandatory vaccination guidelines
- Waikato moves to alert level 3, step 2
- Upper Northland moves to alert level 3, MIQ places available for health and disability workers
- Outcome from consultation on updating professional competencies and changing related scopes of practice for oral health professions
- New recertification programme for oral health therapists, dental hygienists, dental therapists, orthodontic auxiliaries, dental technicians and clinical dental technicians
- Ministry of Health update on vaccination
- Consultation on the proposed supplementary risk management principles for oral health during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Outcome from consultation on proposed supplementary risk management principles for oral health during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Ministry of Health update on RAT and survey for dentists on prescribing
- Office closure
- Outcome from 2022/23 proposed budget and fee consultation
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2022
- Boosters required under changes to mandatory vaccination orders
- Wakaminenga Kaunihera Hauora Health Council
- Critical services under the COVID-19 Close Contact Exemption Scheme
- Voluntary bonding scheme 2022 opening soon
- Extension to mandatory vaccination orders for boosters
- Pause on new registration applications for assessment of individual qualifications and experience
- Payment of annual practising certificates
- COVID-19 Omicron – Red, phase 3 update
- Dental Council elects new Chair and Deputy Chair
- Results of Regulatory Authority Review 2021
- Ministry of Health voluntary bonding scheme
- COVID-19 – applying for a temporary medical exemption from mandatory vaccination
- 31 March 2022 deadline
- Dental Council annual report
- Protection framework changes announced 23 March 2022
- Minor updates to the COVID-19 supplementary standard
- Free flu vaccines available for health and disability workers
- Changes to the vaccination order
- Update to patient screening questions for COVID-19
- TMVI practice standard replaced by new “Blood borne viruses practice standard”
- We have moved offices
- Individual assessment registration pathway now open
- Vaccine mandate changes for some health and disability workers
- Upcoming professional peer confirmation for new recertification programme
- Consultation on proposed addition of Haumarutanga ahurea/Cultural safety domain to dental specialist competencies for New Zealand
- COVID-19 updates announced
- Mask requirements in health service premises
- Consultation on proposed 2023/24 budget and fees
- Annual report 2021/22
- Changes to MSD dental special needs grants
- Message from the Chair
- Te Hā – Māori Advisory Committee established
- Professional Advisor Dexter Bambery retires
- Adult restorative programme approved for Aotearoa New Zealand registrants
- Haumarutanga ahurea | Cultural safety domain added to dental specialist competencies
- Update on recertification programme
- Registration of Aotearoa New Zealand 2022 graduates
- Overseas practitioners registering in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Upcoming medicine classification changes
- The Therapeutic Products Bill
- University of Otago Master of Community Dentistry Student Research Project
- Outcome from 2023/24 proposed budget and fees consultation
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2023
- Therapeutic Products Bill submission
- Consultation on proposed recognition of Ireland Dental Council accredited dentistry programmes
- Naming Notice - Dr Jacob Goldenberg
- Update on guidance on advanced and new areas of practice
- Local anaesthetic and adrenaline medicines reclassification changes approved
- New radiography course for dental therapists and dental hygienists approved
- Changes to the Radiation Safety Regulations
- Consultation on the proposed Principles for quality and safe prescribing practice statement
- Ireland accredited dentistry programmes now recognised in Aotearoa
- Annual recertification programme for dentists and dental specialists
- Changes to prescribing regulations
- University of Otago postgraduate adult restorative dental care programme accredited
- Workforce analysis report 2020 to 2022
- Request for expressions of interest from practitioners
- Consultation on proposed 2024/25 budget and fees
- Consultation on proposed Naming policy changes
- Recertification programme and policy update
- Outcome of the 2024/25 budget and fees consultation
- Accreditation reviews
- Annual practising certificates (APCs)
- Feedback survey coming soon
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2024
- Auckland University of Technology Graduate Certificate of Health Science (Oral Health) programme accredited
- Consultation on proposed end-date to some prescribed qualifications
- English language requirements and tests policy update
- Naming policy update
- Save the date - Upcoming changes to Dental Council competencies and standards
- Consultation | Infection prevention and control practice standard
- Consultation on proposed 2025/26 budget and fees
- Changes to meetings and webinars on competencies and standards
- Prescribing principles released
- Director-General of Health extends temporary authorisation for unsigned prescriptions
- Outcome of consultation on proposed end-date to some prescribed qualifications
- Christmas shutdown
- Outcome of the 2025/26 budget and fees consultation
- Outcome of the Infection prevention and control practice standard consultation
- University of Otago undergraduate programmes accredited
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2025
- Updates to the Council’s Restricted activities policy
- Council Chair and Deputy Chair elections
- Additional disciplinary levy
- Radiation safety compliance
- Consultation on new registration pathways and prescribed qualifications launched
- Chair newsletter November 2025
- Consultation on 2026/27 budget
- Consultation on proposed changes to the Accreditation Standards for dental practitioner programmes
- Chair newsletter December 2025
- 2026
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2020
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Education
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Links
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