# Alaska dental licensure exams > Dentist licensure exam signals for Alaska, including national-board, clinical-exam, jurisprudence, and pathway-specific notes where sourced. URL: https://dentovio.com/dental-licensure-exams/alaska Last verified: 2026-07-08 Research confidence: medium Educational summary only, not legal, admissions, testing-vendor, or board advice. Exam acceptance, score windows, jurisprudence rules, endorsement routes, and foreign-trained dentist pathways can change. Confirm current instructions with Alaska Board of Dental Examiners (Dept. of Commerce, Community & Economic Development) before applying. ## Direct answer For dentist licensure exams in Alaska, Dentovio's sourced state record lists: 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. Confirm current iNBDE/NBDE, ADEX or other clinical exam, jurisprudence, law-and-rules, endorsement, and pathway-specific requirements with Alaska Board of Dental Examiners (Dept. of Commerce, Community & Economic Development). ## Exam signals 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. ## Pathway context 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. ## 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 board source - Alaska Board of Dental Examiners (Dept. of Commerce, Community & Economic Development): ## References - - - ## Related - [Dental jurisprudence exam requirements by state](https://dentovio.com/dental-jurisprudence-exam/index.html.md) - [Foreign-trained dentist license in Alaska](https://dentovio.com/foreign-trained-dentist-license/alaska/index.html.md) - [Alaska foreign-trained dentist residency pathway](https://dentovio.com/foreign-trained-dentist-license/alaska/residency-pathway/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) - [All dental licensure exam pages](https://dentovio.com/dental-licensure-exams/index.html.md)