The Department of Dental Sciences started from a humble beginning in 1974 (The Department of Dental Surgery) in the then Faculty of Medicine. The first group of eighteen (18) students was admitted in 1974 to pursue the course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) of the University of Nairobi. To facilitate its inception and growth, the Department acquired and renovated the then building structures for the former Princess Elizabeth Maternity in 1977 with financial and material support from the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany. The aim was to have a university teaching dental hospital. Initially, the Department had only nine (9) dental units, but these soon grew to fifty-two (52) distributed in various clinics.
The then Department of Dental Surgery was upgraded in 1995 to create the current Faculty of Dental Sciences, with four Department
NAIROBI UNIVERSITY DENTAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
