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 recordExams they list as required: NBDE, INBDE, TOEFL, Other.
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 University of California, Los Angeles School of Dentistry (UCLA SOD) Professional Program for International Dentists (PPID) commences with a curriculum focused on didactic, pre-clinical…”
Program website
One of the larger intakes in this pathway at 30 seats, which usually means a wider interview pool.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordShorter than most: 25 months to the degree, which cuts both time and total tuition compared with the typical program.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordLater deadline than most (June 30, 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
University of California, Los Angeles 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 17, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
The University of California, Los Angeles School of Dentistry (UCLA SOD) Professional Program for International Dentists (PPID) commences with a curriculum focused on didactic, pre-clinical and clinical preparatory instruction. After successfully completing these courses, students will be fully integrated into the third year class and granted the same opportunities in research, clinical experience, professional development and extracurricular activities as a traditional UCLA SOD student. The goal of this program is to produce dentists who possess the necessary knowledge in the biomedical sciences and clinical skills to provide competent and comprehensive dental care within the United States. We welcome your application to join the program and become part of the UCLA SOD community. We take pride in our core mission to improve the oral and general health of the people of California, the nation and the world through education, research, patient care and public service.
- Degree awarded
- D.D.S.
- Program length
- 25 months
- Class size
- 30
- Application opens
- March 6, 2026
- Application deadline
- June 30, 2026
- Program start
- May 5, 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
- Program requires passage of both NBDE Parts I and Part II
- passage of the Integrated National Board Dental Examination (INBDE) to be considered for admission. The NBDE must be requested by the applicant online and submitted by the deadline to: UCLA School of Dentistry, PPID Coordinator at ppid_admissions@dentistry.ucla.edu
TOEFL instructions
- The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL ) is required of all applicants who did not complete their High School education in the United States. All applicants must meet the minimum requirements:
- TOEFL score report must be taken within the last two years.
- Minimum overall score on TOEFL iBT of 95 (for exams taken before January 21, 2026)
- 5.0 for exams taken on or after January 21, 2026.
- TOEFL Home edition taken before January 21, 2026, will be accepted. TOEFL Home edition taken on or after January 21, 2026 will not be accepted.
- MyBest TOEFL is accepted.
- An official, sealed (unopened), TOEFL report must be submitted by the issuing instituion, directly to the UCLA School of Dentistry Office of Student Services, by the application deadline. Electronic copies will not be accepted.
Letters of evaluation
- Three Letters of Recommendation are required. Applicants must submit one Letter of Recommendation from each of the following individuals: Dean or head of the applicant’s dental school, dental school clinical instructor who is able to evaluate the applicant’s potential and a person of the applicant’s choosing; preferably someone with whom the applicant has worked with. We recommend that letters of recommendation be written within the last two years.
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 Los Angeles change every cycle.
Open the cost-of-attendance page on the program's own site for the current figure, and budget separately for the 25 months you will be enrolled.
Open program websiteGenevieve Cedillo
PPID Coordinator
Office of Student Services
10833 Le Conte Avenue
Room A0-111 CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1762
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/university-of-california-los-angeles-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://dentistry.ucla.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 17, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off University of California, Los Angeles 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://dentistry.ucla.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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