Sec. 20-107. Application for license. Graduates of foreign dental schools.
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(a)Each application for a license to practice dentistry shall be submitted by the applicant and no license shall be issued to any person unless he or she presents
(1)a diploma or other certificate of graduation conferring a dental degree from a dental college or from a department of dentistry of a medical college accredited by the American Dental Association's Commission on Dental Accreditation or its successor organization;
(2)evidence of satisfactory completion of a written examination or examinations given by the Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations, subject to such conditions as the State Dental Commission as described in section 20-103a , with the consent of the Commissioner of Public Health, may prescribe; and
(3)evidence of satisfactory completion of at least one year of a clinically based postdoctoral general practice or specialty dental residency program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation, or its successor organization.
(b)Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection
(a)of this section, the department may issue a license to practice dentistry to any applicant holding a diploma from a foreign dental school, provided the applicant:
(1)Is a graduate of a dental school located outside the United States and has received the degree of doctor of dental medicine or surgery, or its equivalent;
(2)passed the written and practical examination or examinations required in subsection
(a)of this section or section 20-108 ;
(3)successfully completed not less than two years of graduate dental training as a resident dentist in a program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation; and
(4)successfully completed, at a level greater than the second postgraduate year, not less than three years of a residency or fellowship training program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation in a school of dentistry in this state, or has served as a full-time faculty member of a school of dentistry in this state pursuant to the provisions of section 20-120 for not less than three years.