# Minnesota dental license reciprocity and endorsement

> Source-backed out-of-state dentist licensure, endorsement, reciprocity, credentials, portability, and official-board signals for Minnesota.

URL: https://dentovio.com/dental-license-reciprocity/minnesota

Last verified: 2026-07-08

Dentovio is not a dental board. Confirm current endorsement eligibility, reciprocity language, credentialing rules, portability rules, forms, fees, exam or score-age exceptions, and foreign-trained exceptions directly with Minnesota Board of Dentistry.

## Direct answer

For dental license reciprocity or licensure by endorsement in Minnesota, Dentovio's sourced state record highlights this out-of-state license signal: Credentials must be evaluated (e. , Foreign Credentials Service of America). Related pathway and exam context: iNBDE / all components of the National Board Dental Examinations + a board-approved clinical exam: ADEX (via CDCA-WREB-CITA), CRDTS, or SRTA — all clinical components (incl. posterior and anterior operative) Confirm the current endorsement, credentials, portability, application, exam, score-age, and foreign-trained exceptions directly with Minnesota Board of Dentistry.

## Reciprocity, endorsement, or credentials signal

Credentials must be evaluated (e. , Foreign Credentials Service of America).

## Related pathway context

Foreign-training EQUIVALENCY pathway — a full CODA advanced-standing DDS/DMD is NOT strictly required. Minn. Stat. §150A.06 Subd. 1 provides that a graduate of a dental college in another country 'must not be disqualified from examination solely because of the applicant's foreign training if the board determines that the training is equivalent to or higher than' a CODA-accredited dental college. Such an applicant may then sit the licensure exams (national board + clinical) and obtain a general dentist license. Foreign grads may also complete a U.S. CODA advanced-standing program (e.g., Univ. of Minnesota PASS) or a CODA specialty program. NOTE: The separate clinical-exam WAIVER for a completed CODA GPR/AEGD (Subd. 3(b) and PGY-1 waiver under Subd. 3b) is expressly limited to graduates of a CODA-accredited dental SCHOOL, so that residency clinical-waiver does not by itself cover a non-CODA foreign grad.

## Related exam context

iNBDE / all components of the National Board Dental Examinations + a board-approved clinical exam: ADEX (via CDCA-WREB-CITA), CRDTS, or SRTA — all clinical components (incl. posterior and anterior operative) except the periodontal component, taken within 5 years. Alternatively PGY-1 clinical waiver via a completed U.S. CODA AEGD/GPR (available to CODA-school grads). Plus MN jurisprudence exam and CPR. (WREB retired Dec 31 2022.)

## Notes

Minnesota is a genuine foreign-equivalency / residency-friendly state: a foreign-trained dentist judged 'equivalent or higher' by the Board can be examined and licensed WITHOUT repeating dental school. Credentials must be evaluated (e.g., Foreign Credentials Service of America). The GPR/AEGD clinical-exam waiver route is written for CODA-school graduates; a foreign grad more typically uses the equivalency-plus-clinical-exam route or a CODA advanced-standing/specialty program. Confirm the equivalency determination process with the Board.

## Official sources

- <https://mn.gov/boards/dentistry/>
- <https://mn.gov/boards/dentistry/new-applicant/>
- <https://mn.gov/boards/dentistry/new-applicant/limited-general/index.jsp>
- <https://www.ada.org/~/media/Project/ADA%20Organization/ADA/ADA-org/Files/Education/Licensure%20by%20State/Minnesota_Licensure>

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