Dr. R Ahmed Dental College

Dr. R. Ahmed Dental College and Hospital is a government dental college situated in Sealdah, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is affiliated to the West Bengal University of Health Sciences and recognised by the National Dental Commission. Recognised as the first dental college in South-East Asia and India's first dental college, it was founded by Dr. Rafiuddin Ahmed (1890–1965), an alumnus of the University of Iowa, who established it as Calcutta Dental College and Hospital based on the American model of dentistry. After Indian Independence, he gifted the college to the Government of West Bengal. The institution offers a four-year BDS undergraduate program followed by a mandatory one-year rotatory internship, and a three-year MDS postgraduate program in specialties such as Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthodontics, Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Paedodontics, Periodontics, Prosthodontics, and Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. The college has more than 200 dental chairs across two campuses—new and old—and clinical training in medical subjects is conducted at Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital. Hostel facilities are available for both boys and girls. Admission to BDS is through NEET UG scores, while MDS admission is based on NEET MDS scores conducted by the National Board of Examination. Annual intake is 125 for BDS and 33 for MDS. Notable alumna Fatima Jinnah, one of the founders of Pakistan, studied here.