Dental board repeals rule on testing issue

TOPEKA (AP) — A state regulatory board has reversed a policy that threatened to keep some dentistry students from obtaining licenses.
    The Kansas Dental Board found itself Friday in the middle of a debate over whether repealing its rule would endanger public health.
    But its members said they had made a mistake in imposing the rule in November and repealed it unanimously.
    Before the rule, the state would license a prospective dentist if he has passed one of two exams. The new rule increased the score required on one exam.
    But the result was that 19 of the 32 students graduating this year from the dental school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City couldn’t be licensed in Kansas. They and the university’s faculty appealed to the board.