On 9 September 1978, this department was shifted to a new building called "Oral & Dental Hospital, Department of Dentistry" and in 1988 an Oral & Maxillofacial Ward and Operation Theater was added for indoor patients.

On 11 January 1990, the Department of Dentistry was upgraded to the status of a College by the then Chief Minister, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao while presiding over the inaugural function of the Silver Jubilee of the Department of Dentistry.

In 2009 the department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery was shifted to a new purpose built building.

[5] The chairman of the Board of Governors announced the establishment of an emergency department at the college on 19 December 2023.

[11] It is also the first dental institute in the country to offer post-graduate training in periodontology.