This profile is the Advanced Standing (international) pathway.
It is for dentists who already earned a dental degree outside the U.S. and apply through ADEA CAAPID. It is not the four-year predoctoral program, and it is not a residency. See the same school's four-year DDS/DMD profile
Every line below is read from a published record — the program's own entry or its admissions page. No acceptance rates or average scores appear here, because no board publishes them per program.
Hands are weighted as heavily as paperwork here — a bench test is part of selection, so preparation has to include a practical station, not just exams.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordEnglish is a hard gate: the program states a minimum TOEFL iBT score of 90.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordExams they list as required: NBDE, INBDE, TOEFL.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordCredentials are only accepted through Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE) — an evaluation from anyone else does not count.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
In their own words: “The Louisiana State University Health New Orleans School of Dentistry (LSUSD) Internationally Educated Dentists Program (IEDP) is for dentists holding a dental degree from countries outside…”
Program website
Small cohort — 5 (estimate) seats, below the typical Advanced Standing class, so competition per seat runs high.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordLonger than most: 36 months of enrolment, so budget for the extra year of tuition and living costs.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordLater deadline than most (August 15, 2026) — useful as a second-wave application if an exam retake pushes your timeline.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
A separate supplemental application AND its own fee are required on top of CAAPID — missing it voids the application.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
Louisiana State University School of Dentistry
Every figure on this page is taken from this program's own entry in the official ADEA CAAPID directory, last updated February 23, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
The Louisiana State University Health New Orleans School of Dentistry (LSUSD) Internationally Educated Dentists Program (IEDP) is for dentists holding a dental degree from countries outside the United States and Canada. The program employs a mandatory 3-year curriculum. Qualified students are enrolled in the pre-doctoral dental program (D.D.S.) assecond-year dental students. Once enrolled in the D.D.S. program, each IEDP student must satisfactorily complete the second, third- and fourth-year dental curriculum as prescribed. No waiver of classes is granted. LSUSD expects all applicants to and students of IEDP to meet all Technical Standards for the Profession as stated in the LSUSD Catalog.
- Degree awarded
- D.D.S.
- Program length
- 36 months
- Class size
- 5 (estimate)
- Application opens
- June 1, 2026
- Application deadline
- August 15, 2026
- Program start
- July 1, 2027
- Bench test
- Yes
- Supplemental application
- Yes
- Supplemental fee
- Yes
- U.S. citizens / green card only
- No
Required exams
Transcript evaluation
Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE)
National board notes
- Applicants must have passed Part I of the NBDE or Integrated NBDE.
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TOEFL instructions
- Applicants whose native language is not English are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Successful completion of the TOEFL internet-based exam with a score of 90 or above ( or 5 or above based on new scoring system) is required. TOEFL results must be from testing dates within two years of the application cycle. TOEFL score should be uploaded as part of the ADEA CAAPID application. TOEFL Home edition scores will be accepted.
Letters of evaluation
- A letter of recommendation (LOR) from a faculty member of the school from which the dental degree was issued is required.
- Two additional LORs (cannot be more than 2 years old) are also required.
- Up to three additional LORs concerning practice experience or shadowing in a dental office are encouraged.
- All LORs to be uploaded through ADEA CAAPID by their respective authors.
This program does not publish a tuition figure in the CAAPID directory, and we refuse to print a guess next to a number as consequential as this one. Tuition, instrument kits, fees and living costs in New Orleans change every cycle.
Open the cost-of-attendance page on the program's own site for the current figure, and budget separately for the 36 months you will be enrolled.
Open program websiteDr. Shirin Khoynezhad & Dr. Jorge Palavicini
Program Directors
1100 Florida Avenue, Box 28 New Orleans, LA 70119
skhoyn@lsuhsu.edu
Mindy Guillotte
Coordinator of Admissions
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/louisiana-state-university-school-of-dentistry
Fields taken from here: program length, class size, application open date, deadline, start date, bench test, supplemental application, required exams, transcript evaluator, TOEFL and letter instructions
- Program's own website
https://lsusd.lsuhsc.edu
Fields taken from here: tuition and cost of attendance, curriculum detail, contact details
Verification history
No manual re-check has been logged since the source page itself was dated February 23, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off Louisiana State University School of Dentistry's own website, so you are following the real feed and writing to the real office — nothing here is a look-alike page.
Accounts marked "university-wide" belong to the parent institution, not the dental school — the school itself does not run a separate feed on that platform.
Where these came from
https://www.lsusd.lsuhsc.edu/Videos & links about this program
Official campus walkthroughs, admissions info sessions and program pages posted by the administration — each with a short written summary of what it covers.
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