# Pennsylvania dental license requirements > Source-backed dentist licensure pathway, exam, residency, endorsement, reciprocity, and official-board signals for Pennsylvania. URL: https://dentovio.com/dental-license-requirements/pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania State Board of Dentistry. ## Direct answer For dentist license requirements in Pennsylvania, 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 DMD/DDS only. A candidate educated outside the U.S. at a nonaccredited (non-CODA) school must submit credentials to a CODA-accredited (or provisionally accredited) Exam signal: National Board Dental Examination (NBDE Parts I & II / iNBDE); a Board-approved clinical/practical examination administered by an approved testing agency (ADEX, CDCA, CRDTS, CITA, SRTA — WREB legacy). Confirm current requirements, application forms, score windows, endorsement eligibility, and foreign-trained exceptions with Pennsylvania State Board of Dentistry. ## Education and pathway signal Advanced-standing CODA DMD/DDS only. A candidate educated outside the U.S. at a nonaccredited (non-CODA) school must submit credentials to a CODA-accredited (or provisionally accredited) dental school and obtain additional preclinical and clinical training leading to the award of a D.M.D. or D.D.S. degree by that school (49 Pa. Code 33.102(a)(2)). A CODA GPR/AEGD residency alone does NOT satisfy the education requirement. ## Exam signal National Board Dental Examination (NBDE Parts I & II / iNBDE); a Board-approved clinical/practical examination administered by an approved testing agency (ADEX, CDCA, CRDTS, CITA, SRTA — WREB legacy). Also required at initial licensure: DEA/opioid safe-prescribing training and child-abuse recognition CE. (WREB retired Dec 31, 2022.) ## Endorsement, reciprocity, or credentials signal at a nonaccredited (non-CODA) school must submit credentials to a CODA-accredited (or provisionally accredited) dental school and obtain additional preclinical and clinical training leading to the award of a D. ## Residency signal No residency-only substitute for the required dental degree was isolated in this sourced state record. ## Notes PA recognizes CODA (US) and CDAC (Canada) accreditation. Certification of graduation from a foreign program does NOT meet PA educational qualifications; the mandatory route for a non-CODA foreign graduate is a CODA advanced-standing DMD/DDS (49 Pa. Code 33.102(a)(2), read with the accreditation requirement in 33.103/33.103b). ## 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) - [Pennsylvania dental license reciprocity](https://dentovio.com/dental-license-reciprocity/pennsylvania/index.html.md) - [Pennsylvania dental licensure exams](https://dentovio.com/dental-licensure-exams/pennsylvania/index.html.md) - [Pennsylvania foreign-trained dentist licensure](https://dentovio.com/foreign-trained-dentist-license/pennsylvania/index.html.md) - [Pennsylvania dental board](https://dentovio.com/dental-boards/pennsylvania/index.html.md) - [Pennsylvania dental license lookup](https://dentovio.com/dental-license-lookup/pennsylvania/index.html.md) - [Pennsylvania dental license renewal](https://dentovio.com/dental-license-renewal/pennsylvania/index.html.md)