# District of Columbia dental licensure exams > Dentist licensure exam signals for District of Columbia, including national-board, clinical-exam, jurisprudence, and pathway-specific notes where sourced. URL: https://dentovio.com/dental-licensure-exams/district-of-columbia 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 DC Board of Dentistry (DC Health, Department of Health) before applying. ## Direct answer For dentist licensure exams in District of Columbia, Dentovio's sourced state record lists: NBDE Parts I and II or the iNBDE, plus a Board-accepted regional clinical examination (e.g., ADEX; historically NERB/CDCA). WREB retired Dec 31, 2022. Confirm current iNBDE/NBDE, ADEX or other clinical exam, jurisprudence, law-and-rules, endorsement, and pathway-specific requirements with DC Board of Dentistry (DC Health, Department of Health). ## Exam signals NBDE Parts I and II or the iNBDE, plus a Board-accepted regional clinical examination (e.g., ADEX; historically NERB/CDCA). WREB retired Dec 31, 2022. ## Pathway context Advanced-standing CODA DDS/DMD only. 17 DCMR 4202.1 requires the applicant to have (a) completed a dental education program at a CODA-recognized institution at the time of graduation and (b) received a US (incl. US territories) or Canadian DDS or DMD degree. A foreign/non-CODA graduate must therefore complete a US/Canadian CODA advanced-standing DDS/DMD. A CODA GPR/AEGD residency alone does NOT satisfy the degree requirement. ## Notes 17 DCMR 4202.1 language (US/Canadian CODA-recognized DDS/DMD required, degree must be US/US-territory/Canadian issued) was confirmed via secondary indexing of the DC Municipal Regulations; the source PDF (Chapter 42 Dentistry) could not be fully text-extracted, so exam specifics (NBDE vs iNBDE; ADEX vs NERB) should be verified directly on the DC Health application-documents page. Confidence set to medium pending direct read of the regulation PDF. No residency-only pathway found. ## Official board source - DC Board of Dentistry (DC Health, Department of Health): ## References - - - - - ## Related - [Dental jurisprudence exam requirements by state](https://dentovio.com/dental-jurisprudence-exam/index.html.md) - [Foreign-trained dentist license in District of Columbia](https://dentovio.com/foreign-trained-dentist-license/district-of-columbia/index.html.md) - [District of Columbia foreign-trained dentist residency pathway](https://dentovio.com/foreign-trained-dentist-license/district-of-columbia/residency-pathway/index.html.md) - [District of Columbia dental board](https://dentovio.com/dental-boards/district-of-columbia/index.html.md) - [District of Columbia dental license lookup](https://dentovio.com/dental-license-lookup/district-of-columbia/index.html.md) - [District of Columbia dental license renewal](https://dentovio.com/dental-license-renewal/district-of-columbia/index.html.md) - [All dental licensure exam pages](https://dentovio.com/dental-licensure-exams/index.html.md)