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National Board Dental Examinations
All about Dental Boards and Licensure Information for the New Graduate - site developed by ADA. Background, Purpose, Examination Content and Format, Eligibility Requirements, Scoring, etc. [MEMBERS ONLY!]

State and Regional Contacts
For information concerning a state's current practices and specific criteria for license recognition, dentists should contact the dental board of the state in which license recognition is sought. A list of state dental board contact information is available from the American Association of Dental Examiners (AADE)

NERB Online
The North East Regional Board (NERB) home page.

National Board Dental Examinations, Part I and Part II, 1985 - 2008
These are copies of past examinations which have been released for study purposes.

For past exams you might also contact :

Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations
American Student Dental Association
211 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611
Phone : 800-621-8099
Fax : 312-440-2820

Or order them from ASDA home-page

Or check them out from the library:

• Test Packet I-L
• National Board. Part 1 : released item booklet
• National Board. Part 2 : released item booklet
• National Board. Part 2 : released booklet of cases

National Board Dental Hygiene Examinations, 2000-2008.
These are copies of past examinations which have been released for study purposes.

Order from ADA

National Board Dental Hygiene Pilot Examination, Component A and Component B, February 1996.
These are copies of past examinations which have been released for study purposes.

Order from ADA

NERBs: Format of the Examination in Dentistry. Spring 1994.
Overview and content of the Examination.

General Study Guides

• Dental secrets (2003)
  
• This Is Your Dentist Passbook (1992)
• Review of Diagnosis, Oral Medicine, Radiology and Treatment Planning (1999)
• Review of Basic Science and Clinical Dentistry, V. 1 Basic Science, and V. 2 Clinical Dentistry (1980)
• Primary preventive dentistry (2009)

For the Dentistry National Boards

• First aid for the NBDE part 1 (2007)
• Mosby's review for the NBDE part 1 (2007)
• New Rudman's Questions and Answers on the NDB, National Dental Boards, Part II, (1996)
• New Rudman's Questions and Answers on the NDB, National Dental Boards, Part I (1993)
• New Rudman's Questions and Answers on the NDB, National Dental Boards, Part I and  Part II (1989)

For the NERB

• Review of Diagnosis, Oral Medicine, Radiology, and Treatment Planning (1999)

For the Dental Hygiene Exam

• Appleton & Lange's Review of Dental Hygiene (4th ed., 1995)
• High yield facts of dental hygiene (2003)
• Mosby's Comprehensive Review of Dental Hygiene (6th ed., 2006)
• NDHB, National Dental Hygiene Boards (1988)
• Prentic Hall health complete review of dental hygiene (2002)
• This Is Your Passbook For Dental Hygienist (1995)

For the Dental Assistants Exam

• Appleton & Lange's Review For The Dental Assistant (1992)
• The DANB review : the official study guide & sample examination questions for national certification programs offered by the Dental Assisting National Board, Inc. (2002)
  
• Delmar's dental assisting exam review (2000) Online version
• Dental Assisting Test Preparation (1996)
• Dental Assisting Exam Preparation (1994)
• Mosby's Comprehensive Review of Dental Assisting (1997)
• PREP, Program Review and Exam Preparation, Dental Assistant (1996)
• Prentice Hall Health complete review of dental assisting (2004)
• Rudman's Questions and Answers on the NDAB, National Dental Assistant Boards (1990)
• Success! in dental assisting : a Q & A review (2006)
• Task analysis for Dental Assisting National Board, Inc. examinations (2002)
• This Is Your Passbook for Dental Assistant (1993)

NERB CSCE & DSCE Demo
The NERB has prepared in cooperation with Prometric a demonstration of the computer based examination for Dental Hygienists and Dentists. This demo was not designed to be a study tool, only to introduce the candidate to the format of the examination.

Kaplan's NBDE Preparation Course