Radiation Safety Exam

**​The registration form is no longer online. Please print and fill out the registration form below:

Radiation Safety Registration Form - please print and fax (803-750-1644) or mail to the SCDA
Radiation Safety Video
Directions to Midlands Tech Airport Campus Exam
Radiation Safety Certificate Re-Issue Form - Please make sure you have taken the exam through the SCDA!

Dental Assistants must pass a SC State Board of Dentistry approved Radiation Safety exam  before they are allowed to take x-rays within a dental office in South Carolina. Board Regulation 39-16 requires that the employing dentist is responsible for verifying the credentials of all dental assistants who expose radiographs in his/her office, and for verifying that all personnel in his/her office who expose radiographs have met the required training and have a copy of their certification from a Board-approved program:

Board-approved Programs:
1. SC American Dental Association (ADA)-accredited schools
List of SC ADA CODA- accredited schools
-Aiken Technical College
-Florence-Darlington Technical College
- Greenville Technical College
- Horry-Georgetown Technical College
- Midlands Technical College
- Spartanburg Community College
- Tri-County Technical College
- Trident Technical College
- York Technical College
2. Dental Assisting National Board (DANB) and
3. South Carolina Dental Association (SCDA)

The law requires that Dental Assistants have worked under the supervision of a South Carolina licensed dentist for at least three months full-time. The supervising dentists must verify by signing a form indicating that you are competent in the use of the radiological equipment. Please provide the dentist's full name (first and last) on your registration. The Radiation Safety Exam is $60 and includes access to the video online.

Below are the dates for exams given at MIDLANDS TECH AIRPORT CAMPUS in the Academic Center Auditorium will run from 9:30 am- 11:30 am 

All exam study materials will be emailed to registrants after the registration & verification form have been received.

The exam is given 4 times a year. If an assistant cannot make it to take the test, he/she will have up to 6 months from the date of registration to take the exam during one of the upcoming exam dates. Refunds will not be given.

The exam is 50 questions multiple choice. You can miss up to 12 questions and still pass the exam. You will receive an email with your score within a few days of the exam. Certificates will be mailed out the week following the exam.

Dental Assistants who have completed an out-of- State Radiation Safety course will need to take the Radiation Safety Exam in South Carolina.

For more information about Radiation Safety, please​ contact Sue Copeland at 800-327-2598 or copelands@scda.org.