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), World Education Services (WES) — an evaluation from anyone else does not count.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
In their own words: “dental degrees from outside the United States who have a desire to have a United States dental degree from a Commission on Dental Accreditation approved institutional program.”
Program website
Small cohort — 9 seats, below the typical Advanced Standing class, so competition per seat runs high.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordLonger than most: 29 months of enrolment, so budget for the extra year of tuition and living costs.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
Restricted to U.S. citizens and permanent residents in the published record — if you need visa sponsorship, this seat is not open to you.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordA separate supplemental application AND its own fee are required on top of CAAPID — missing it voids the application.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
University of Missouri Kansas City - 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 9, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
dental degrees from outside the United States who have a desire to have a United States dental degree from a Commission on Dental Accreditation approved institutional program. The program will result in the demonstration of knowledge, skills and values expected of any graduate of the UMKC School of Dentistry Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) This program integrates internationally trained dentists into the third and fourth year of our traditional four-year DDS curriculum. Students accepted to the program will complete a full semester of preparation prior to matriculation into the third year cohort.
- Degree awarded
- D.D.S.
- Program length
- 29 months
- Class size
- 9
- Application opens
- March 5, 2026
- Application deadline
- June 1, 2026
- Program start
- January 18, 2027
- Bench test
- Yes
- Supplemental application
- Yes
- Supplemental fee
- Yes
- U.S. citizens / green card only
- Yes
Required exams
Transcript evaluation
Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE), World Education Services (WES)
National board notes
- A passing score on Part I and Part II of the National Dental Board Examination -or- Integrated National Dental Board Examination.
TOEFL instructions
- Must demonstrate English proficiency by providing official documentation of
- at least a score of 90 (or a 4.5 on the new scale) on the TOEFL (iBT)
- We do not accept the BestScore Option
Letters of evaluation
- Three letters of recommendations:
- one from a dean and a faculty member of a dental school program attended plus a letter from a practicing dentist within the U.S.
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 Kansas City change every cycle.
Open the cost-of-attendance page on the program's own site for the current figure, and budget separately for the 29 months you will be enrolled.
Open program websiteMadison Mohr
Enrollment Advisor
650 East 25th Street
Kansas City, MO 64108
asdp@umkc.edu
8162352126
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/university-of-missouri-kansas-city-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.umkc.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 9, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off University of Missouri Kansas City - 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.
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