# Nebraska dental license requirements > Source-backed dentist licensure pathway, exam, residency, endorsement, reciprocity, and official-board signals for Nebraska. URL: https://dentovio.com/dental-license-requirements/nebraska 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 Nebraska Board of Dentistry (DHHS, Div. of Public Health, Licensure Unit). ## Direct answer For dentist license requirements in Nebraska, 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: Advanced-standing CODA DDS/DMD only. Neb. Rev. Stat. 38-1117 requires 'proof of graduation with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree or a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from an accredited school or college of dentistry. Exam signal: iNBDE, or both Part I and Part II of the NBDE (per 38-1117). Clinical competency demonstrated via a board-approved simulation/manikin-based psychomotor clinical exam (periodontal, restorative, prosthodontic, endodontic components); Confirm current requirements, application forms, score windows, endorsement eligibility, and foreign-trained exceptions with Nebraska Board of Dentistry (DHHS, Div. of Public Health, Licensure Unit). ## Education and pathway signal Advanced-standing CODA DDS/DMD only. Neb. Rev. Stat. 38-1117 requires 'proof of graduation with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree or a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from an accredited school or college of dentistry.' No alternative for non-accredited/foreign graduates is provided; a foreign grad must earn a CODA-accredited DDS/DMD (UNMC operates a 29-month advanced-standing program). Residency (postgraduate) licenses under 38-1123 require enrollment in an ACCREDITED school, so a CODA residency does not substitute for the accredited-degree requirement for full licensure. ## Exam signal iNBDE, or both Part I and Part II of the NBDE (per 38-1117). Clinical competency demonstrated via a board-approved simulation/manikin-based psychomotor clinical exam (periodontal, restorative, prosthodontic, endodontic components); regional exams such as ADEX/CDCA/CRDTS are the vehicles (WREB retired Dec 31 2022). ## 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 No residency-only substitute for the required dental degree was isolated in this sourced state record. ## Notes Statute explicitly names iNBDE/NBDE and a manikin/simulation-based clinical competency exam; it does not lock to a single regional agency. UNMC's own AEGD/postgrad programs do not accept non-CODA graduates. ## 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) - [Nebraska dental license reciprocity](https://dentovio.com/dental-license-reciprocity/nebraska/index.html.md) - [Nebraska dental licensure exams](https://dentovio.com/dental-licensure-exams/nebraska/index.html.md) - [Nebraska foreign-trained dentist licensure](https://dentovio.com/foreign-trained-dentist-license/nebraska/index.html.md) - [Nebraska dental board](https://dentovio.com/dental-boards/nebraska/index.html.md) - [Nebraska dental license lookup](https://dentovio.com/dental-license-lookup/nebraska/index.html.md) - [Nebraska dental license renewal](https://dentovio.com/dental-license-renewal/nebraska/index.html.md)