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.
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.
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 Pikeville Tanner College of Dental Medicine Advanced Placement International Dental Program is designed for internationally trained dentists seeking the opportunity to pra…”
Program website
Small cohort — 10 seats, below the typical Advanced Standing class, so competition per seat runs high.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordShorter than most: 25.5 months to the degree, which cuts both time and total tuition compared with the typical program.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordLater deadline than most (October 1, 2026) — useful as a second-wave application if an exam retake pushes your timeline.
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 record
University of Pikeville – Tanner College of Dental Medicine
Every figure on this page is taken from this program's own entry in the official ADEA CAAPID directory, last updated July 1, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
The University of Pikeville Tanner College of Dental Medicine Advanced Placement International Dental Program is designed for internationally trained dentists seeking the opportunity to practice dentistry in the United States while earning a Doctor of Dental Medicine (D.M.D.) degree. This 25-month program begins with a comprehensive 10-credit-hour bridge course that prepares students for successful entry into the second year of a three-year predoctoral dental education program. Upon completion of the bridge course, students join the D.M.D. cohort and progress through the remainder of the curriculum alongside their classmates, graduating at the conclusion of the third year. The program emphasizes excellence in clinical education while fostering innovation, advanced technology, scholarly research opportunities, and a strong commitment to service. Completion of the program enables graduates to meet the educational requirements to pursue dental licensure in the United States by qualifying to sit for applicable licensing examinations, subject to state or jurisdictional requirements.
- Degree awarded
- D.M.D.
- Program length
- 25.5 months
- Class size
- 10
- Application opens
- July 1, 2026
- Application deadline
- October 1, 2026
- Program start
- April 12, 2027
- Bench test
- Yes
- Supplemental application
- No
- Supplemental fee
- Yes
- U.S. citizens / green card only
- Yes
Required exams
Transcript evaluation
Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE)
National board notes
- Eligibility Criteria:
- To be considered for admission, applicants must have completed and passed the
- National Board Dental Examination (NBDE) Parts I and II
- prior to the application deadline.
- Pass
- result is
- required
- Alternative Exam:
TOEFL instructions
- Test Requirement:
- All applicants must
- demonstrate
- proficiency
- in English by taking the
- Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
- within last two years.
- Minimum
Letters of evaluation
- Number of Letters:
- Two (2)
- Letters of Evaluation
- required
- for the application.
- All letters must be
- submitted
- in English
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 Sycamore Street Pikeville change every cycle.
Open the cost-of-attendance page on the program's own site for the current figure, and budget separately for the 25.5 months you will be enrolled.
Open program websiteBrandi Brown
Program Manager
147 Sycamore Street Pikeville, KY 41501
brandibrown00@upike.edu
The University of Pikeville Tanner College of Dental Medicine Advanced Placement International Dental Program is designed for internationally trained dentists seeking the opportunity to practice dentistry in the United States while earning a Doctor of Dental Medicine (D.M.D.) degree. This 25-month program begins with a comprehensive 10-credit-hour bridge course that prepares students for successful entry into the second year of a three-year predoctoral dental education program. Upon completion of the bridge course, students join the D.M.D. cohort and progress through the remainder of the curriculum alongside their classmates, graduating at the conclusion of the third year. The program emphasizes excellence in clinical education while fostering innovation, advanced technology, scholarly research opportunities, and a strong commitment to service. Completion of the program enables graduates to meet the educational requirements to pursue dental licensure in the United States by qualifying to sit for applicable licensing examinations, subject to state or jurisdictional requirements.
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/university-of-pikeville-tanner-college-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://upike.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 July 1, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off University of Pikeville – Tanner College 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.upike.edu/dental-medicine/ https://www.upike.edu/dental-medicine/contact/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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