**Please note that once your application is received by the
Board office,
the process takes at least 90 days.**
Update on
Dental License Fee
Effective April 1, 2006, the application fee for a general
dentistry license was set at $395.00. If you submitted your
dental application before the fee was established you will
need to submit payment at this time. A license will not
be issued until the licensing fee is received. Please
send a check or money order made payable to the NC Board of
Dental Examiners to 507 Airport Blvd., Suite 105, Morrisville, NC
27560.
North Carolina
does NOT have reciprocity with any other state nor does it conduct
specialty
examinations. The Board has recently
adopted rules for
Licensure by Credentials which went into effect January 1, 2003. To view the rules
click here!! (To view the rules, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Acrobat Reader
can be downloaded from this site.Here's How to do this!
• A credential application may be downloaded from this site using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
The Acrobat Reader can be downloaded from this site.Here's
How to do this!
General Requirements
All
candidates for licensure in this state who do NOT qualify for Licensure by Credentials are
required to participate in written and clinical examinations. Written examinations are offered on-line in two subject
areas: infection control/sterilization and North Carolina
jurisprudence. The only acceptable clinical exam is the CITA
Dental exam. Both written and clinical exams must be passed
before a license will be issued. Passing either the
written or clinical exam alone does not fulfill requirements for
licensure. No candidate may engage in the practice of
dentistry until the license is issued and properly displayed as
required by NC Gen Stat
§90-33.
Exam Dates and Location:
Exams
are being adminstered by the Council of Insterstate Testing
Agencies (CITA). For more information please visit their
website at www.citaexam.com.
Scroll to bottom of page to download a
Licensure/Provisional application
Provisional
Licensure
• Candidates may be eligible for provisional licensure if they have
been licensed in another state for two years immediately preceding the date of the
application. Licenses must have been granted on the basis
of a clinical examination, NOT on completion of a post-graduate
program.
• A provisional license enables a dentist to practice dentistry in
this State under the direction of a dentist licensed in North Carolina.
• A provisional license is valid from one State Board exam to the
next.
• Verification of licensure is required from any and all states
in which you have been licensed. All verifications of licensure must include the signature of the
Board’s secretary and the Board’s seal. (An original license or copy of the
license is not acceptable)
• The application fee for a provisional license is $100.00
(non-refundable).
• The dentist with whom the candidate intends to practice must send a
letter verifying employment before a provisional license can be issued.
• All applicants must take and pass the jurisprudence test and the
sterilization/infection control test with a minimum grade of 80 before receiving the
provisional license. This test is administered online or
can be taken in the Board office Monday-Friday between the hours
of 9:00am and 4:00pm.
• It is not necessary to have employment before
taking the written exams.
• Anyone having failed the CITA exam is not
eligible to receive a provisional license.
In addition, the Board reserves the right to further test any
applicant who applies for a provisional license in order to be assured of his or her
clinical proficiency.
Application for Dental & Provisional
Licensure
• Applications may be downloaded from this site using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
The Acrobat Reader can be downloaded from this site.Here's
How to do this!
• Applications by mail may also be requested by
Email:
info@ncdentalboard.org or by Electronic Forms
Executive Office: 507 Airport Blvd., Suite 105 • Morrisville, NC
27560
Office: (919) 678-8223 or Fax: (919) 678-8472
Download the Dental
Licensure by Credentials application
now