Harvard Dental School
founded 1867
Founded in 1867, the Harvard Dental School was the first university-based dental school in the country. It was also the first to be established in close affiliation with a medical school (Harvard Medical School) and to make the full scholarly and scientific resources of a university available to dental education.
In 1940, under President James B. Conant, the School was reorganized as the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) to place stronger emphasis on the biological basis of oral medicine and to institute multidisciplinary programs of dental research.