The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (Danish: Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet) at the University of Copenhagen houses 13 departments, 33 centres, five schools, four hospitals,[2] and three libraries.

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen was established in its current form in 1992 from the merging of Københavns Tandlægehøjskole (The Dental School of Copenhagen) and Det Lægevidenskabelige Fakultet (The Medical Faculty).

The School of Medical Sciences' history dates back to 1479, when the University of Copenhagen was founded.

The University of Oslo Faculty of Medicine was founded in 1814 as a de facto Norwegian (partial) continuation of the medical faculty in Copenhagen, as a result of the Napoleonic Wars and the breakup of Denmark-Norway by the foreign powers.

Its history dates back the early 1890s, when Denmark's first school of dentistry was founded on Nygade.

[6] During the 1980s, the School of Dentistry was merged into the University of Copenhagen and moved to the recently erected Panum Building.

In 1993, a new university law was passed and the Department of Odontology received its current designation.