Verify a Pennsylvania Dental Hygienist license
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How Pennsylvania Dental Hygienist license verification works
A Dental Hygienist in Pennsylvania is licensed by the PA Dental Board. PrimaryCheck looks the license up live at the board's public verification system (board lookup) by license number, or by name when no number is supplied. The record the board publishes is captured as evidence, hashed, and rendered into a proof PDF.
Fields returned for this board: status issued expires last_renewed discipline+documents other_licenses specialty.
Board note: One PALS API covers all BPOA boards; no DOB published; captcha setting off 2026-11-03
What a Dental Hygienist license check returns
| Field check | Passes when |
|---|---|
license_number | Equal to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros |
name | Last name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname |
license_type | The record is a Dental Hygienist license, strictly (no near-miss types) |
status | The board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag |
expires | Expiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it |
disciplinary_actions | Recorded and flagged with any order documents; never silently dropped |
Verdicts: verified, discrepancy, not_found, unable_to_verify (with a reason), pending. See how verdicts are decided.
Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact and multistate Dental Hygienist licenses
Dental Hygienist licenses can carry a multistate privilege under the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. When the Pennsylvania record shows a multistate license, the result includes multistate: true and the privilege states. Privilege status is confirmed at the compact's own lookup, never inferred.
Verify a Pennsylvania Dental Hygienist license by API
POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
"person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
"claims": [
{ "type": "license", "state": "PA", "profession": "rdh", "number": "…" }
],
"purpose": "employment",
"consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}Quickstart · License claim reference · Run one in the dashboard
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All 51 jurisdictions: license verification coverage.