<p>Oral health was comparatively an uncharted domain in India in the late eighteenth century, and dental health is an integral part of medical science. The mouth, tongue, teeth, jaws, and their shape, as well as the art of dentistry, diagnosis of diseases, and their treatment, are essential parts of dental science. Although dentistry is commonly perceived as limited to the teeth, in actuality, it encompasses the shape of the mouth, jaws, face, and forehead. It traces its origin to the term dontology. Biomedicine, or modern medicine, initially began in India for the employees of the East India Company and later for officials of various British administrations. Medical officers were trained, and mostly British doctors were invited from the United Kingdom. The medical doctors expanded their private practice to the public, and in the middle of the nineteenth century, the British Government established medical colleges in India to train South Asian doctors, who could supplement the practice of British physicians. Dental care was restricted to the extraction of teeth at such hospitals by medical personnel, doctors, and assistants. Despite this, for a long time, dentistry predominantly remained in the hands of the unqualified. The year 1920 marks a milestone in the history of dental health with the establishment of the first dental College in Calcutta, also the first of its kind in Asia.</p>