Provenance
How this content is verified
Most board-prep material asks you to trust it. This page explains exactly what stands behind every sentence in the INBDE course, what the system refuses to let us claim, and where it is currently incomplete.
Current review state
Source-cited, and every in-scope file carries a current exact-digest sign-off by Mahtab Mansour, DDS on 2026-08-04.
Reviewed by Mahtab Mansour, DDS, 2026-08-04. Licence details and verification links are on the reviewer’s page.
| Collection | Files | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation modules | 42 | 42 |
| Question banks | 12 | 12 |
| Patient Box case banks | 6 | 6 |
| Review sheets | 1 | 1 |
Verification dates on this corpus run from 2026-08-04 to 2026-08-04. Clinical content carries a 90-day freshness policy, so an approval expires rather than standing indefinitely.
What sits behind a sentence
Every clinical claim in the course carries a footnote to a primary document — a consensus report, a regulator’s publication, a named journal article with its DOI or PMID — recorded in a source registry that is part of the repository rather than a bibliography page. Practice items cite the same registry, so an explanation can be traced to the document it came from rather than to an author’s recollection.
Where a number could not be confirmed at the issuing body, the course says so and no item is keyed on it. That is a deliberate and slightly uncomfortable rule: a confidently wrong threshold is worse than an acknowledged gap, and prep material that quotes a bright line the regulator has never drawn is how candidates end up defending an answer that was never right.
What the review actually binds
A credentialed dentist approves a file, not a product. The approval records a SHA-256 digest of that file’s exact text, and the application recomputes it on every read. If a single character changes afterwards, the digest stops matching and the file leaves the product until it is reviewed again.
This fails closed on purpose. Unreviewed clinical content is not shown with a caveat, it is not shown at all — so what you can see is, by construction, what has been reviewed. The same rule blocks the shortcut that would make all of this theatre: re-stamping the digest after an edit would assert that the reviewer approved text she never read, so the tooling refuses to do it and asks for a new review instead.
Where this is incomplete
The question bank does not yet cover the exam in proportion. The published coverage matrix in the repository reports items per Foundation Knowledge area and per Clinical Content section against the official weights, including the areas that currently have none. It is generated from the corpus and checked automatically, so it cannot quietly flatter itself.
Founding members are buying a corpus that is unusually well sourced and still growing, at a price that reflects that. When the bank reaches full length the price rises; access does not expire while you are still sitting the exam.
Primary sources for the exam itself
Statements about the examination — its structure, item counts, pass standard, fees, and published outcome rates — come from the JCNDE directly, not from other prep material:
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Last verified 2026-08-04. Exam mechanics on this page were last checked against the JCNDE documents on 2026-08-04.