牙科教育于1917年在艾伯塔大学医学院的牙科学院内开设。第一个完整的学位课程于1923年提供，第一堂课于1927年毕业。当学校的第一任院长HE Bulyea博士于1917年从哈佛大学来到这里时，他根据学校的课程设置了这所学校的课程哈佛。这所学校于1944年成为牙科学院，直到1958年，这是加拿大西部唯一的牙科学校。牙医学院的U系培训了西部所有省份的从业​​人员，促进了社区和学校的牙齿健康，并进行了预防牙齿疾病的研究，从而导致埃德蒙顿的水氟化。医学科学（牙科卫生）适用于DHyg以后的申请人或具有BSc或同等
The MSc Dental Hygiene is a research-based program that requires trainees to complete a selection of didactic courses, original research carried out under supervision, as well as the preparation and completion of a thesis. The Department of Dentistry offers the MSc and PhD in Medical Sciences degrees (see Medical Sciences) for post-DDS applicants or for those proceeding from a BSc or equivalent degree. Research may be carried out in a variety of dentistry-related disciplines for which faculty members in the department have active research programs.<br><br>Dental education was instituted at the University of Alberta in 1917 in the School of Dentistry under the Faculty of Medicine. The first full degree program was offered in 1923 and the first class graduated in 1927. When the school's first dean, Dr. H.E. Bulyea, came here from Harvard University in 1917, he patterned this school's curriculum after that of Harvard.<br><br>The school became the Faculty of Dentistry in 1944, and until 1958, this was the only dental school in Western Canada. The U of A dental faculty trained practitioners for all the western provinces to promote dental health in the community and schools. They conducted research into the prevention of dental diseases, which led to the fluoridation of water in Edmonton.