# Oregon dental license reciprocity and endorsement

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

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

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 Oregon Board of Dentistry.

## Direct answer

For dental license reciprocity or licensure by endorsement in Oregon, Dentovio's sourced state record highlights this out-of-state license signal: So a 2-year CODA GPR can substitute for repeating dental school — but this route also requires an active unrestricted out-of-state license plus 3,500 clinical practice hours in the preceding 5 years. Related pathway and exam context: Passage of a Board-accepted dental clinical examination (ADEX/CDCA/WREB-legacy/CRDTS/SRTA/CITA) and English-language proficiency; national board (NBDE/iNBDE) per Board rule. Confirm the current endorsement, credentials, portability, application, exam, score-age, and foreign-trained exceptions directly with Oregon Board of Dentistry.

## Reciprocity, endorsement, or credentials signal

So a 2-year CODA GPR can substitute for repeating dental school — but this route also requires an active unrestricted out-of-state license plus 3,500 clinical practice hours in the preceding 5 years.

## Related pathway context

CODA residency (GPR) pathway accepted (as an alternative to a CODA predoctoral program), but under Oregon's 'license without further examination' rule. A graduate of a dental school outside the U.S./Canada qualifies by completing EITHER (a) a predoctoral dental education program of not less than two years at a CODA-accredited school, OR (b) a postdoctoral General Dentistry Residency of not less than two years at a CODA-accredited school (OAR 818-021-0011). So a 2-year CODA GPR can substitute for repeating dental school — but this route also requires an active unrestricted out-of-state license plus 3,500 clinical practice hours in the preceding 5 years.

## Related exam context

Passage of a Board-accepted dental clinical examination (ADEX/CDCA/WREB-legacy/CRDTS/SRTA/CITA) and English-language proficiency; national board (NBDE/iNBDE) per Board rule. Under the 'without further examination' route, 40 hours of CE within the prior two years is also required. (WREB retired Dec 31, 2022.) Verify the exact exam set for a first-time (not-yet-licensed) foreign applicant with the Board.

## Notes

The clearly codified foreign-trained pathway is OAR 818-021-0011 (License Without Further Examination), which accepts a 2-yr CODA GPR OR 2-yr CODA predoctoral program but presupposes the applicant already holds an active unrestricted license in another state and has 3,500 practice hours in 5 years. ORS 679.065(2) also lets 'foreign trained graduates' sit for the licensure exam if they meet Board-set education requirements, but the statute delegates specifics to Board rule. Confidence medium because the residency pathway for a foreign grad who is NOT yet licensed elsewhere should be confirmed against the current OBD International Dentists instruction sheet.

## Official sources

- <https://www.oregon.gov/dentistry/>
- <https://oregon.public.law/rules/oar_818-021-0011>
- <https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_679.065>
- <https://www.oregon.gov/dentistry/Documents/Form_General_Information_International_Dentists.pdf>
- <https://www.oregon.gov/dentistry/pages/apply-license.aspx>

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