Authority and scope
Check the license and concern
The complaint form covers dentists, dental hygienists and dental radiation technologists. Identify the individual professional, not just the practice. The Board also publishes expanded function dental assistant information; ask its Compliance Unit how to identify an assistant complaint.
Supporting guidance: Maryland: currently linked complaint packet ↗Maryland: Board homepage ↗
How the official source says to file
- Complete the official form, sign and date it, and mail it as instructed. The complaint webpage expressly requires mailing.
- Provide treatment dates, witnesses, other providers and supporting copies. Aim for no more than five pages of narrative. Sign the records releases and the truthfulness declaration; review the optional fee-dispute referral consent.
- Confirm the mailing destination with Compliance at 410-402-8538: the linked form lists 55 Wade Avenue/Tulip Drive, Catonsville, MD 21228, while the current homepage announces a September 2026 relocation.
Supporting guidance: Maryland: complaint procedures ↗Maryland: currently linked complaint packet ↗Maryland: Board homepage ↗
What this route may not provide
The form excludes fee disputes and refund requests. It permits referral for mediation with your consent and describes license discipline or informal resolution. Repayment is not assured.
Supporting guidance: Maryland: currently linked complaint packet ↗
Do not guess about confidentiality
The signed complaint is ordinarily supplied to the professional. Identity may be withheld in certain cases until charges. Identity and records generally remain confidential from the public, subject to legal and public-protection exceptions. This is not a promise of anonymity.
Supporting guidance: Maryland: currently linked complaint packet ↗
Ask promptly; no filing deadline verified
A filing deadline was not established by this check; ask promptly. The form says resolution time varies. Do not treat investigation time as a deadline for filing a separate claim.
Supporting guidance: Maryland: currently linked complaint packet ↗
What may happen after filing
The Board investigates possible violations and may refer, resolve informally or discipline. It cannot provide investigation-status details before a final decision; closed or informal cases receive only a closure notice.
Supporting guidance: Maryland: currently linked complaint packet ↗
Prepare a reviewable submission
State the concern you want reviewed, give a short chronology and factual consequences, and explain your request. Keep supporting records and follow the receiving authority’s instructions before attaching or sending them.
Read the linked authority and process information ↗
Sources and scope
Maryland: complaint procedures ↗
Required signed paper complaint and mailing.
Source checked: September 19, 2026
Maryland: currently linked complaint packet ↗
Credential fields, releases, disclosure, fee-dispute limits and investigation notices.
Source checked: September 19, 2026
Maryland: Board homepage ↗
Expanded function assistant information and September 2026 relocation notice.
Source checked: September 19, 2026
Source check: September 19, 2026. This records a review of the linked material, not a decision about your case. No clinical or legal reviewer is identified for this guide. Confirm current instructions with the receiving authority.