Data Sources and Verification

Sources we publish from

• Official websites of schools and their parent universities: program, admissions, fees, curriculum and clinical-training pages and catalogs.
• National education ministries and higher-education agencies, and their official lists of licensed institutions and programs.
• Dental councils, boards and regulators, and their lists of recognised schools or programs.
• Dental-program accreditors and their published decisions and directories, with the scope (program, campus, award) and status as they publish them.
• Official national admission portals and official gazettes.

Discovery sources are not evidence

To find candidate schools we use discovery sources: secondary lists, including the World Directory of Dental Schools (WDDS, maintained by KIDEE) and Wikidata (released under CC0). Discovery lists are not exhaustive, can lag behind openings and closures, and a WDDS listing is not accreditation. Nothing from a discovery source is published until it is confirmed on an official source, and a directory listing is never used as accreditation evidence. We respect each source's access conditions and do not copy databases whose terms forbid it. Rankings, agents' and recruiters' sites, forums and encyclopedias are never used as evidence.

This directory is not affiliated with WDDS, KIDEE, CODA, the ADA or any regulator.

How a fact is verified

1. A researcher records the official URL and copies the exact passage that supports the fact, in its original language.
2. An automated check fetches the live page, reduces it to its visible text and confirms the passage is there. Pages behind bot protection are never bypassed; facts we cannot check stay unpublished.
3. Only facts whose passage was found (or that an editor confirmed against the official source) appear on the site, each with its source and verification date.
4. The source host must belong to the school, its parent institution, or an official public body. Facts from other hosts are rejected.
5. A new value that contradicts a verified one is not applied silently; it opens an editorial review.

Country-by-country research workflow

1. Identify the authoritative discovery sources for the country.
2. Compile candidate schools.
3. Confirm identity, operating status, initial dental qualification, actual campus and awarding institution.
4. Research recognition and accreditation, programs, language and entry; tuition, instrument and laboratory fees, deadlines and clinical arrangements where published.
5. Save sources, deduplicate, publish.
6. Reconcile gaps against the discovery sources: every candidate becomes a record, an exclusion with its reason, a possible duplicate or an unresolved item.

Countries are processed in neutral geographic and alphabetical order. A country is never described as complete because every row of one list was imported. Coverage by country.

Images

Logos and campus photographs are used only with a recorded source, licence and attribution (for example freely licensed files on Wikimedia Commons, or images supplied by the school). We do not present unrelated campuses or generated images as a school's facilities. Image credits.