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Practice cases
Practice cases in the format of the board exam (INBDE) and the DLOSCE: a short patient, the findings, then single-best-answer questions. Each answer quotes the published source.
Practice cases written from published sources. Not an exam or admissions result; your program and examiners decide.
Patient assessment 27 questions (36%)Management 31 questions (41%)Practice 17 questions (23%)
75 questions in 27 cases, written to the INBDE content split of 36%, 42%, 22%.
Patient assessment
7 cases
A periodontal exam: calculus and probingM12 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeReading a fissure and planning the visitsM20 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeStaging periodontitis and writing the referralM21 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeThe head and neck screening at a first examM24 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA tongue-tie in a school-age childM27 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA molar abscess with a swelling that is spreadingM30 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA recall visit where the implant crown movesM31 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class code
Management
19 cases
Opening the access on an upper molarM6 · 2 questions · Free, no signupReducing a lower molar for an onlayM7 · 2 questions · Season, seat or class codeA Class III composite on an upper central incisorM8 · 2 questions · Season, seat or class codeA root canal on an upper central incisorM10 · 2 questions · Season, seat or class codeA premolar prepared as a bridge abutmentM11 · 2 questions · Season, seat or class codeA simple extraction of an erupted molarM13 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeFitting a provisional crown chairsideM15 · 2 questions · Season, seat or class codeA periodontal maintenance visitM16 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeDelivering a hard occlusal splintM17 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeBonding brackets before the first archwireM18 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA buccal infiltration for an upper premolarM22 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeAn avulsed upper central incisorM23 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeTrying in a metal partial frameworkM26 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA 4-year-old with cavities who cannot sit for fillingsM28 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA 7-year-old who gags and needs a molar outM29 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codePain that came back three days after an extractionM32 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA second molar root canal in the student clinic: treat or referM33 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA smoker who came in for a cleaningM34 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeBitewings due again for an adult with no new decay in yearsM35 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class code
Practice
1 case
The formats these cases follow
INBDE 2026 Candidate Guide, Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations (updated 08/04/2026), pp. 5 and 11. The test specifications table, excerpted:
Oral Health Management … 42% … Practice and Profession … 22%
The first section, shown here as Patient assessment, is 36%.
DLOSCE 2026 Dental Candidate Manual, computer-based examination (July 2026), pp. 4 and 6.
This examination consists primarily of multiple-choice examination questions representing clinical problems that the candidate must solve.
Checked 2026-11-14.
Practice cases
Practice cases in the format of the board exam (INBDE) and the DLOSCE: a short patient, the findings, then single-best-answer questions. Each answer quotes the published source.
Practice cases written from published sources. Not an exam or admissions result; your program and examiners decide.
Patient assessment 27 questions (36%)Management 31 questions (41%)Practice 17 questions (23%)
75 questions in 27 cases, written to the INBDE content split of 36%, 42%, 22%.
Patient assessment
7 cases
A periodontal exam: calculus and probingM12 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeReading a fissure and planning the visitsM20 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeStaging periodontitis and writing the referralM21 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeThe head and neck screening at a first examM24 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA tongue-tie in a school-age childM27 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA molar abscess with a swelling that is spreadingM30 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA recall visit where the implant crown movesM31 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class code
Management
19 cases
Opening the access on an upper molarM6 · 2 questions · Free, no signupReducing a lower molar for an onlayM7 · 2 questions · Season, seat or class codeA Class III composite on an upper central incisorM8 · 2 questions · Season, seat or class codeA root canal on an upper central incisorM10 · 2 questions · Season, seat or class codeA premolar prepared as a bridge abutmentM11 · 2 questions · Season, seat or class codeA simple extraction of an erupted molarM13 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeFitting a provisional crown chairsideM15 · 2 questions · Season, seat or class codeA periodontal maintenance visitM16 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeDelivering a hard occlusal splintM17 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeBonding brackets before the first archwireM18 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA buccal infiltration for an upper premolarM22 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeAn avulsed upper central incisorM23 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeTrying in a metal partial frameworkM26 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA 4-year-old with cavities who cannot sit for fillingsM28 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA 7-year-old who gags and needs a molar outM29 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codePain that came back three days after an extractionM32 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA second molar root canal in the student clinic: treat or referM33 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeA smoker who came in for a cleaningM34 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class codeBitewings due again for an adult with no new decay in yearsM35 · 3 questions · Season, seat or class code
Practice
1 case
The formats these cases follow
INBDE 2026 Candidate Guide, Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations (updated 08/04/2026), pp. 5 and 11. The test specifications table, excerpted:
Oral Health Management … 42% … Practice and Profession … 22%
The first section, shown here as Patient assessment, is 36%.
DLOSCE 2026 Dental Candidate Manual, computer-based examination (July 2026), pp. 4 and 6.
This examination consists primarily of multiple-choice examination questions representing clinical problems that the candidate must solve.
Checked 2026-11-14.