Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya is one of the nine faculties[1] of University of Peradeniya and the only institution that offers five years undergraduate programme for dental surgeons in Sri Lanka.
[2] The only dental teaching hospital in Sri Lanka, the Peradeniya Dental (Teaching) Hospital functions as the clinical unit of the faculty.
the Dental School of the University of Ceylon was established in 1943.
This has since been reversed and the Faculty of Dental Sciences now functions independently.
The teaching hospital was declared open and integrated to the faculty in 1998 as a Rs.