He established the Indian Dental Journal in 1925, and played a key role in founding the Bengal Dentist Act in 1939.

Remembered as the father of modern dentistry in India, in 2016, the Indian Dental Association declared 24 December as National Dentist's Day in his honour.

[1] He had four brothers and one sister, and completed his early education at the Dhaka Madrasa, later Collegiate School.

[2] In 1909, after his father's death, Ahmed travelled at first to Bombay (now Mumbai), then the UK, and subsequently the United States, where he gained admission to the University of Iowa College of Dentistry.

Until 1918, during the First World War, he practised at the Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Pierre Fauchard Academy (PFA) dedicated its 1987 quarterly PFA Journal in Ahmed's memory, and the University of Iowa College of Dentistry Alumni Association presented their First Distinguished International Alumnus Award to him in 1989.

[1] Remembered as the father of modern dentistry in India, in 2016, the Indian Dental Association declared 24 December as National Dentist Day in Ahmed's honour.