The Department of Dental Sciences (SDS) is one of the five schools that constitute the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS). The School started from a humble beginning in 1974 as the Department of Dental Surgery, in the then Faculty of Medicine. The Department of Surgery was upgraded in 1995 to create the Faculty of Dental Sciences, Which became a School in 2005, with four Departments namely Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Medicine/Pathology and Oral/Maxillofacial Radiology; Conservative and Prosthetic Dentistry; Peadiatric Dentistry and Orthodontics; and, Periodontology/Community & Preventive Dentistry.
