List of dental schools in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, Dental School are well known as Dental College. Like medical education, dental education are conducted by different Dental College located all over the country. These Dental College are affiliated with Medical faculty of different government funded public University. These Dental College conduct a graduate course known as Bachelor of Dental Surgery. Each Dental college is affiliated with a specific Medical Faculty of a University. The university conduct and monitor their professional examination, education system, syllabus, academic activity and finally awarded the Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree. The dental college student also have to do an internship training program in these dental college to get the practicing permission in the country. After successfully finishing the Internship training in any of the dental college final dental practicing license or registration certificate is awarded by Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council. Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council also act as a motoring and regulatory body to monitor, assess, evaluate, and permit the practice license of these dental schools graduate along with respective University.
The three university that have Dentistry in their Medical Faculty are The University of Dhaka, The University of Chittagong and the University of Rajshahi & SUST. This three Public university have their Medical Faculty affiliated dental college and hospital those may be publicly or privately funded.
List of Bangladeshi dental college include
Public dental colleges
No. | Dental college | Acronym | Affiliated University | Established | College started | Location | Division | Website | |
1. | Dhaka Dental College | DDC | DU | 1961 | 1961 | 97 | Dhaka | Dhaka Division | |
2. | Chittagong Medical College Dental Unit | CMC | CU | 1990 | 1990 | 60 | Chittagong | Chittagong division | |
3. | Rajshahi Medical College Dental Unit | RMC | RU | 1989 | 1989 | 59 | Rajshahi | Rajshahi Division | |
4. | Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Dental Unit | SShMC | DU | 2011 | 2011 | 56 | Dhaka | Dhaka Division | |
5. | Sir Salimullah Medical College Dental Unit | SSMC | DU | 2011 | 2011 | 52 | Dhaka | Dhaka Division | |
6. | Mymensingh Medical College Dental Unit | MMC | DU | 2011 | 2011 | 52 | Mymensingh | Dhaka Division | |
7. | MAG Osmani Medical College Dental Unit | SOMC | SUST | 2011 | 2011 | 52 | Sylhet | Sylhet division | |
8. | Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Dental Unit | SBMC | DU | 2011 | 2011 | 52 | Barisal | Barisal division | |
9. | Rangpur Medical College Dental Unit | RpMC | RU | 2011 | 2011 | 52 | Rangpur | Rangpur division |