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 98.
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: “School of Dental Medicine DDS Program, Admissions and Student Affairs, 1001 Shadow Lane - MS7427, Las Vegas, NV 89106-4124 The Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.) program at the University of…”
Program website
Small cohort — Up to 12 (estimate) seats, below the typical Advanced Standing class, so competition per seat runs high.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordShorter than most: exactly 24 months to the degree, which cuts both time and total tuition compared with the typical program.
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 Nevada, Las Vegas School of Dental Medicine
Every figure on this page is taken from this program's own entry in the official ADEA CAAPID directory, last updated May 28, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
School of Dental Medicine DDS Program, Admissions and Student Affairs, 1001 Shadow Lane - MS7427, Las Vegas, NV 89106-4124 The Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.) program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Dental Medicine (UNLV SDM) is a 24-month (six-semester) advanced standing program for dentists from non-Commission on Dental Accreditation dental schools who are interested in gaining the skills and knowledge necessary to be eligible to practice in the United States after successful regional licensing board completion.
- Degree awarded
- D.D.S.
- Program length
- exactly 24 months
- Class size
- Up to 12 (estimate)
- Application opens
- March 5, 2026
- Application deadline
- June 1, 2026
- Program start
- May 3, 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
- Successful completion of the NBDE Parts I and II or the Integrated National Board Dental Examinations (INBDE) within the past five years.
- © 2013-2026 American Dental Education Association
- ADEA Privacy Policy
TOEFL instructions
- TOEFL is required with a valid minimum score of 98 (old version) or 5 (new version), and must be taken within two years of the application.
Letters of evaluation
- Three "Letters of Recommendation" are required.
- should be from someone at the dean or administrative level at the dental school from which the student graduated.
- should be from a practicing dentist (or specialist) you worked with or shadowed in the U.S.
- should be from someone who has known you for at least the last two years (not a family member, relative or friend). Sealed "Letters of Recommendation" should be composed on respective school or company letterhead with the evaluators’ contact details.
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 Las Vegas change every cycle.
Open the cost-of-attendance page on the program's own site for the current figure, and budget separately for the exactly 24 months you will be enrolled.
Open program websiteDDS Program
School of Dental Medicine DDS Program, Admissions and Student Affairs, 1001 Shadow Lane - MS7427, Las Vegas, NV 89106-4124
dds_admissions@unlv.edu
702-774-2025
The Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.) program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Dental Medicine (UNLV SDM) is a 24-month (six-semester) advanced standing program for dentists from non-Commission on Dental Accreditation dental schools who are interested in gaining the skills and knowledge necessary to be eligible to practice in the United States after successful regional licensing board completion.
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/university-of-nevada-las-vegas-school-of-dental-medicine
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://unlv.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 May 28, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Dental Medicine'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.unlv.edu/dentalVideos & 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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