Standards for Dental Education Programs
The Commission on Dental Accreditation meets twice each year to review accreditation reports and award accreditation statuses to programs. These accreditation standards are copyrighted, but they may be reproduced in whole or in part in the interest of education. New and revised standards are here. Included below are current standards for the Dental Education Programs.
- Standards for Predoctoral Dental Education
- Standards for Allied Dental Education Programs
- Standards for Postdoctoral General Dentistry Education Programs
- Standards for Advanced Specialty Education Programs
- Clinical Fellowship Training Programs
Click on the links below to reach downloadable documents relevant to the listed specialty. If you prefer, the standards can be sent to you by e-mailing the Commission on Dental Accreditation or by calling staff at 312-440-4653.
Standards for Predoctoral Dental Education
- Predoctoral Dental Education Programs (PDF)
- Predoctoral Dental Education Programs (PDF) New implementation date: July 1, 2013
Standards for Allied Dental Education Programs
- Dental Assisting (PDF)
- Dental Assisting (PDF) New implementation date: January 1, 2014
- Dental Hygiene (PDF) New implementation January 1, 2013
- Dental Laboratory Technology (PDF)
Standards for Postdoctoral General Dentistry Education Programs
- Advanced General Dentistry Education Programs in Dental Anesthesiology (PDF)
- Advanced General Dentistry Education Programs in Dental Anesthesiology (PDF) New implementation date: July 1, 2015
- Advanced Education Programs General Dentistry (PDF)
- Advanced Education Programs General Practice Residency (PDF)
- Advanced General Dentistry Education Programs in Oral Medicine (PDF)
- Accreditation Standards for Advanced General Dentistry Education Programs in Orofacial Pain (PDF)
Standards for Advanced Specialty Education Programs
- Dental Public Health (PDF)
- Dental Public Health (PDF) New implementation date: January 2014
- Endodontics (PDF)
- Endodontics (PDF) New implementation date: January 2014
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (PDF)
- Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (PDF)
- Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (PDF) New implementation date: January 2014
- Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (PDF)
- Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (PDF)
- Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (PDF) New implementation date: January 2014
- Pediatric Dentistry (PDF)
- Pediatric Dentistry (PDF) New implementation date: July 1, 2013
- Periodontics (PDF)
- Periodontics (PDF) New implementation date: January 2014
- Prosthodontics (PDF)
