# Utah dental license reciprocity and endorsement

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

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

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 Utah Dentist and Dental Hygienist Licensing Board (DOPL, Dept. of Commerce).

## Direct answer

For dental license reciprocity or licensure by endorsement in Utah, Dentovio's sourced state record highlights this out-of-state license signal: (Note: a recent Utah immigrant-professional/endorsement initiative may create case-by-case flexibility, but that is not a codified foreign-graduate licensure route — verify current status with DOPL. Watch Utah's newer immigrant-professional endorsement rules for possible future flexibility; confirm with DOPL. Related pathway and exam context: National Board — NBDE Parts I & II or the iNBDE (JCNDE); plus a regional clinical licensure exam covering perio, endo, operative, class 2/3 restoration, and prosthodontics — Utah accepts CDCA, SRTA, CRDTS, CITA (and formerly WREB, retired Dec 31, 2022). Confirm the current endorsement, credentials, portability, application, exam, score-age, and foreign-trained exceptions directly with Utah Dentist and Dental Hygienist Licensing Board (DOPL, Dept. of Commerce).

## Reciprocity, endorsement, or credentials signal

(Note: a recent Utah immigrant-professional/endorsement initiative may create case-by-case flexibility, but that is not a codified foreign-graduate licensure route — verify current status with DOPL. Watch Utah's newer immigrant-professional endorsement rules for possible future flexibility; confirm with DOPL.

## Related pathway context

Advanced-standing CODA DDS/DMD only. Utah Code §58-69-302(1)(c) requires 'satisfactory documentation of having successfully completed a program of professional education preparing an individual as a dentist as evidenced by having received an earned doctor's degree in dentistry from a dental school accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association.' The licensure statute contains no non-CODA or GPR/AEGD-residency alternative pathway for initial dentist licensure, so a foreign-trained dentist must obtain a CODA-accredited DDS/DMD (advanced-standing program). (Note: a recent Utah immigrant-professional/endorsement initiative may create case-by-case flexibility, but that is not a codified foreign-graduate licensure route — verify current status with DOPL.)

## Related exam context

National Board — NBDE Parts I & II or the iNBDE (JCNDE); plus a regional clinical licensure exam covering perio, endo, operative, class 2/3 restoration, and prosthodontics — Utah accepts CDCA, SRTA, CRDTS, CITA (and formerly WREB, retired Dec 31, 2022). Utah jurisprudence requirement applies.

## Notes

Utah's dentist licensure statute admits only a CODA-accredited DDS/DMD degree — no GPR/AEGD residency pathway for a non-CODA degree. A foreign grad must complete a CODA advanced-standing DDS/DMD. Watch Utah's newer immigrant-professional endorsement rules for possible future flexibility; confirm with DOPL.

## Official sources

- <https://dopl.utah.gov/dentistry/>
- <https://www.ada.org/en/resources/licensure>
- <https://commerce.utah.gov/dopl/dentistry/>

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