The departments and dental disciplines of University of
Dental Medicine, Yangon are according to the British Dental Schools as the
college opened under the Colombo Plan aid. The curriculum used in the
Department of Conservative Dentistry was also adopted from the British Dental
Schools. With the emergence of Revolution Council of Government of Myanmar in
1974, the curriculum was adopted to community based dentistry. Gradually, the
curriculum was revised through the educational seminars under the influence of
the Department of Medical Science, Ministry of Health. In 1998, an
establishment of a new University of Dental Medicine was made in Mandalay. The
departments and dental disciplines of our new university were adopted according
to the University of Dental Medicine, Yangon.