# Alaska dental license requirements > Source-backed dentist licensure pathway, exam, residency, endorsement, reciprocity, and official-board signals for Alaska. URL: https://dentovio.com/dental-license-requirements/alaska Last verified: 2026-07-08 Dentovio is not a dental board. Confirm current application forms, education rules, exam acceptance, score windows, jurisprudence requirements, endorsement eligibility, reciprocity, credentialing, fees, and foreign-trained exceptions directly with Alaska Board of Dental Examiners (Dept. of Commerce, Community & Economic Development). ## Direct answer For dentist license requirements in Alaska, Dentovio's sourced licensure record highlights education/pathway language, exam signals, and any residency, endorsement, reciprocity, or credentialing notes it could isolate. Education/pathway signal: CODA residency (GPR/AEGD) pathway accepted in lieu of a regional clinical exam. Under 12 AAC 28.940(a)(8)(D), an applicant may qualify by showing satisfactory completion of a clinically-based postdoctoral GPR or AEGD program of at least one year's duration. Exam signal: Written: NBDE Part I & Part II, or the iNBDE (JCNDE). Clinical requirement satisfiable by (a) a regional clinical exam — ADEX, CDCA-WREB-CITA, or CRDTS+SRTA — passed within 5 years; OR (b) Confirm current requirements, application forms, score windows, endorsement eligibility, and foreign-trained exceptions with Alaska Board of Dental Examiners (Dept. of Commerce, Community & Economic Development). ## Education and pathway signal CODA residency (GPR/AEGD) pathway accepted in lieu of a regional clinical exam. Under 12 AAC 28.940(a)(8)(D), an applicant may qualify by showing satisfactory completion of a clinically-based postdoctoral GPR or AEGD program of at least one year's duration in a CODA-accredited hospital/dental facility, with a formal evaluation of competence — as an alternative to a regional clinical examination or a 2-year CODA specialty program. However, the applicant must still hold a dental degree from a school meeting 12 AAC 28.938 and pass NBDE I & II or the iNBDE; whether a non-CODA foreign degree independently satisfies 12 AAC 28.938 should be verified with the board. ## Exam signal Written: NBDE Part I & Part II, or the iNBDE (JCNDE). Clinical requirement satisfiable by (a) a regional clinical exam — ADEX, CDCA-WREB-CITA, or CRDTS+SRTA — passed within 5 years; OR (b) completion of a CODA-accredited PGY-1 GPR/AEGD (≥1 yr) [12 AAC 28.940(a)(8)(D)]; OR (c) a 2-year+ CODA postgraduate specialty program. Plus Alaska jurisprudence exam (min. 70%) and 2 hrs pain-management/opioid education. ## Endorsement, reciprocity, or credentials signal Dentovio did not isolate a licensure-by-endorsement, reciprocity, credentialing, or portability signal in this sourced state record. Verify current out-of-state license options directly with the dental board. ## Residency signal Residency or advanced education is flagged as a possible pathway signal in the sourced state record; verify degree, program, exam, and applicant-status conditions with the board. ## Notes Alaska is the standout among these five: 12 AAC 28.940 explicitly names a CODA GPR/AEGD residency as an accepted route to satisfy the clinical-competence requirement. The open question is the underlying degree — 12 AAC 28.938 defines the acceptable dental school; confirm directly whether a foreign non-CODA degree + CODA residency is accepted, or whether the residency route presumes an approved (CODA) degree. WREB was retired Dec 31, 2022. Confidence set to medium pending that degree-eligibility confirmation. ## Official sources - - - ## Related - [All dental license requirements by state](https://dentovio.com/dental-license-requirements/index.html.md) - [Dental license by state](https://dentovio.com/dental-license-by-state/index.html.md) - [Alaska dental license reciprocity](https://dentovio.com/dental-license-reciprocity/alaska/index.html.md) - [Alaska dental licensure exams](https://dentovio.com/dental-licensure-exams/alaska/index.html.md) - [Alaska foreign-trained dentist licensure](https://dentovio.com/foreign-trained-dentist-license/alaska/index.html.md) - [Alaska dental board](https://dentovio.com/dental-boards/alaska/index.html.md) - [Alaska dental license lookup](https://dentovio.com/dental-license-lookup/alaska/index.html.md) - [Alaska dental license renewal](https://dentovio.com/dental-license-renewal/alaska/index.html.md)