All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was established in 1956 as an institution of national importance by an Act of Parliament with the objects to develop patterns of teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in all its branches so as to demonstrate a high standard of medical education to all medical colleges and other allied institutions in India; to bring together in one place educational facilities of the highest order for the training of personnel in all important branches of health activity and to attain self-sufficiency in postgraduate medical education.

The Institute has comprehensive facilities for teaching, research and patient-care. AIIMS conducts teaching programmes in medical and para-medical courses both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and awards its own degrees. Teaching and research are conducted in 43 disciplines. In the field of medical research AIIMS is the leader, having more than 600 research publications by its faculty and researchers in a year. AIIMS also runs a College of Nursing, training students for B.Sc. (Hons) Nursing and B.Sc. Nursing (post-certificate) degrees.

Twenty-five clinical departments including four superspeciality centres manage practically all types of disease conditions with support from pre-clinical and para-clinical departments. AIIMS also runs a 60 bedded hospital for Comprehensive Rural Health Centre Ballabgarh in Haryana and provides health cover to about 4.5 lakh population through the Centre for Community Medicine.

The Department of Dental Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences is setting standards of Dental care in the country for the last 42 years. The department has progressed from only a single Dental Surgeon to now a staff of about 30 faculty & residents including postgraduate teaching programmes in two prestigious specialities i.e. Orthodontics and Prosthodontics. This department has been a leader not only in the field of patient care but also in research and has undertaken more than 25 research projects in collaboration with ICMR, DST, IIT, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare etc. Presently the department has been upgraded to status of college for Dental Education & Research t fulfill one of the objectives of the AIIMS Act 1956.

The proposed Centre for Dental Education and Research