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.
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: “The University of Puerto Rico School of Dental Medicine (UPR SDM) offers an Advanced Placement Program for internationally trained dentists and upon completion, they will earn a Doctor of D…”
Program website
Class size sits around the pathway average at 20 seats.
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 (October 1, 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 Puerto Rico 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 June 18, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
The University of Puerto Rico School of Dental Medicine (UPR SDM) offers an Advanced Placement Program for internationally trained dentists and upon completion, they will earn a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree. The program consists of a five-week summer course followed by two years of full-time dental curriculum, comprising both third and fourth years of dental school.
- Degree awarded
- D.M.D.
- Program length
- 25 months
- Class size
- 20
- Application opens
- August 1, 2026
- Application deadline
- October 1, 2026
- Program start
- June 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), World Education Services (WES)
National board notes
- The program requires passing the NBDE Part I or the INBDE to be considered for admission. Submit official scores to ADEA CAAPID.
TOEFL instructions
- Must be proficient in the English language. All applicants must take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL iBT) to be considered for admission.
Letters of evaluation
- Program accepts up to three Letters of Evaluation. Program prefers one Letter of Evaluation to come from Dean of the Dental School from which the applicant graduated.
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 Puerto Rico 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 websiteJose R. Matos Perez, DMD, FACD,FICD
Program Director
Advanced Placement Program
University Of Puerto Rico
School of Dental Medicine
Office A156
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/university-of-puerto-rico-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://dental.rcm.upr.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 June 18, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off University of Puerto Rico 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.
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