When must new enrolments into HLT43012 stop?

New enrolments are not permitted from 8 December 2016 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in HLT43012?

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

HLT43012 Certificate IV in Dental Assisting

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

HLT43012Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Dental Assisting
not equivalent
HLT45015Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Dental Assisting
not equivalent
HLT45021CurrentCertificate IV in Dental Assisting

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

HLT43007HLT43012equivalent6 May 2012
Updated in V5 Clarification in wording of entry requirements Updated core WHS units.
HLT43012HLT45015not equivalent7 December 2015
Change to packaging rules. Minimum work requirments of 250 hours.

Is HLT43012 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether HLT43012 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What HLT43012 is made of

training.gov.au lists 31 units for HLT43012. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Units listed 31 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBADM409A	Coordinate business resources	`N/A`	not current
BSBCMM401A	Make a presentation	`N/A`	not current
BSBFIA301A	Maintain financial records	`N/A`	not current
BSBMED401B	Manage patient record keeping system	`N/A`	not current
CHCCS427A	Facilitate adult learning and development	`N/A`	not current
CHCOHC401A	Inform and encourage clients and groups to understand and achieve good oral health	`N/A`	not current
CHCOHC402A	Support clients and groups to learn practical aspects of oral health care	`N/A`	not current
CHCOHC404A	Recognise and respond to signs and symptoms that may indicate oral health issues	`N/A`	not current
CHCOHC406A	Provide or assist with oral hygiene	`N/A`	not current
CHCOHC407A	Apply and manage use of basic oral health products	`N/A`	not current
HLTAMBFC301D	Communicate with clients and colleagues to support health care	`N/A`	not current
HLTCOM405D	Administer a practice	`N/A`	not current
HLTDA407D	Implement an individualised oral hygiene program	`N/A`	not current
HLTDA408D	Assist in oral health care procedures during general anaesthesia	`N/A`	not current
HLTDA409D	Assist in oral health care procedures during conscious sedation	`N/A`	not current
HLTDA410D	Apply the principles of radiation biology and protection in dental practice	`N/A`	not current
HLTDA411D	Prepare to expose a prescribed dental radiographic image	`N/A`	not current
HLTDA412D	Produce a dental radiographic image	`N/A`	not current
HLTDA413B	Implement an oral hygiene program for older people	`N/A`	not current
HLTDA414B	Implement an oral health promotion program	`N/A`	not current
HLTDA415B	Take an impression for study models	`N/A`	not current
HLTDA416B	Allocate treatment appointments according to priority	`N/A`	not current
HLTDA417A	Take a clinical photograph	`N/A`	not current
HLTDT301D	Construct models	`N/A`	not current
HLTDT302D	Construct custom impression trays	`N/A`	not current
HLTDT303D	Construct registration rims	`N/A`	not current
HLTHIR403C	Work effectively with culturally diverse clients and co-workers	`N/A`	not current
HLTHIR404D	Work effectively with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people	`N/A`	not current
HLTIN403C	Implement and monitor infection control policy and procedures	`N/A`	not current
HLTWHS300A	Contribute to WHS processes	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 1 unit

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
TAEDEL301A	Provide work skill instruction	`N/A`	not current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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