Dentist License

Washington State holds 7,055 active credentials of this type — 1.3% of every active health care credential in the state. Here is what that number is made of, and how to check one.

What kind of credential this is

A Dentist License is a License — the broadest of Washington’s credentials. Where the state licenses a profession, it is generally unlawful to practise it without holding one, and the holder answers to the Department for how they practise.

That word is not a formality. Washington issues 304,441 active credentials in this form across the state, and it decides what the holder may do without someone else’s supervision. How a license differs from the others.

When these credentials expire

Washington renews on the holder’s birthday, so these 7,055 expiry dates are spread right across the calendar rather than falling together. By year:

Continuing education

The Department records a continuing-education due date for 7,036 of these 7,055 credentials (99.7%). Where it is absent, that does not mean no hours are owed — it means this file does not carry the date.

How long these holders have been credentialled

The oldest Dentist License credential still active in Washington was first issued in 1965. 976 of the 7,055 were issued in 2024 or later — 13.8% of the profession is that new.

The disciplinary flag

105 of the 7,055 active credentials of this type carry a disciplinary flag in the Department’s file — 1.5% — and 225 carry one marked pending.

This site publishes that count and no more: never who. The reason is not discretion, it is accuracy — the published file carries a yes/no flag and nothing else: no reason, no date, no case number. Naming someone on the strength of it would publish a suspicion rather than a fact. Every credential counted here is active. Why the line is drawn there.

Do not let the date pass

7,055 credentials of this type are active in Washington. Washington renews most of them on the holder’s birthday, every year or every two years, and continuing-education hours have to be done before that date — not after. Leave your details and we will tell you when yours is close, and pass your request for continuing-education hours to providers who teach for this credential.

We take no commission and we vouch for no training provider. We have no arrangement with any provider today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

Some of the 7,055 holders

Named as the Department of Health holds them, and limited to 140 rows — the full set is in the search, by number or by surname.

Narrower pages for this profession

• Dentist License expiring in 2026 — 1,901
• Dentist License first issued in 2003 — 158
• Dentist License first issued in 2004 — 160
• Dentist License first issued in 2005 — 195
• Dentist License first issued in 2007 — 181
• Dentist License first issued in 2008 — 154
• Dentist License first issued in 2009 — 191
• Dentist License first issued in 2010 — 160
• Dentist License first issued in 2012 — 166
• Dentist License first issued in 2013 — 180
• Dentist License first issued in 2014 — 218
• Dentist License first issued in 2015 — 236
• Dentist License first issued in 2016 — 221
• Dentist License first issued in 2017 — 233
• Dentist License first issued in 2018 — 256
• Dentist License first issued in 2019 — 233
• Dentist License first issued in 2020 — 224
• Dentist License first issued in 2021 — 308
• Dentist License first issued in 2022 — 339
• Dentist License first issued in 2023 — 325
• Dentist License first issued in 2024 — 295
• Dentist License first issued in 2025 — 364
• Dentist License first issued in 2026 — 317

Credentials of a similar size

• Pharmacy Assistant License 10,772
• Pharmacy Technician Certification 10,038
• Licensed Practical Nurse 9,895
• Social Worker Independent Clinical License 9,624
• Radiologic Technologist Certification 8,453
• Physical Therapist License 8,159
• Medical Assistant Registration 7,667
• Physician Assistant License 6,173
• Dental Hygiene License 6,089
• Certified Behavior Technician 5,091
• Veterinary License 4,715
• Occupational Therapist License 4,611
• Dietitian Certification 4,242

Neighbours by size, not a ranking: this list slides with the profession you are on, so every one of the 98 pages is reachable from the others rather than only the largest few. All of them.