The National Taiwan University—School of Dentistry was the former dental unit of the Taipei Imperial University affiliated hospital founded in 1910. After Taiwan’s retrocession to the Chinese government, the first chairman of the dental school, Dr. Shui Kuo initially served as the professor of the Medical College in dental science. At that time, the dean of the College of Medicine, Dr. Tsung-Ming Tu, took the advice from an American consultant, Dr. Harold W. Brown, and initiated the establishment of the Department of Dentistry. In 1953, the NTU Department of Dentistry was formally founded as a university-based dental school, the first chairman of the Department of Dentistry was Dr. Shui Kuo, and it began admitting students in 1955. Throughout years of contribution by Dr. Shui Kuo, Dr. Yu-Ching Hong, Dr. Kun-Chee Chen, Dr. Hsoeh-Wan Kwan, and other faculty staff, “Graduate Institute of Dental Science” was first established in 1988 to offer graduate courses for master’s degree. Subsequently, Ph.D. courses were added in 1991. In 1996, “Graduate Institute of Dental Science” became “Graduate Institute of Clinical Dentistry,” and in 2001, a master’s course was added exclusively for dentists from NTU Hospital. In 1996, the dental school received authorization to commence graduate courses in oral biology. The Graduate Institute of Oral Biology became the third unit of dental science. On June 14th, 2008, School of Dentistry was established after passing the 2nd University Affairs Meeting of the second semester of 2007 academic year, and Dr. Chun-Pin Lin initially served as the dean of the School of Dentistry.
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