The program is China’s double first-class discipline and falls within the plan of training remarkable doctors by the Ministry of Education (MoE).

The program was set up in 1932. Clinical stomatology is a national-level key discipline, and basic medical sciences of stomatology is a national-level and Shanghai key discipline. SJTUSM owns National Stomatological Center, national Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Regenerative Medicine Innovative Center for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Innovation Research Group of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). It is the only stomatology discipline in China with 2 academicians (Qiu Weiliu and Zhang Zhiyuan) from the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). With nearly 30 overseas sister schools, it carried out extensive cooperation and communication, and most graduates keep further study in overseas prestigious universities. Distinctive courses include: Basic Science of Stomatology, Endodontics, Diseases of the Oral Mucosa, Periodontology, Oral surgery, malformation of stomatology CranioMaxilloFacial (CMF)，Oral Maxillofacial Tumors, Prosthodontics, Oral implantology, Pediatric dentistry and Oral Public Health. Among them, Oral surgery is a national-level course, oral and maxillofacial surgery teaching team is national-level teaching team, and the virtual teaching and research office of stomatology course falls within the first batch of pilot projects approved by the Ministry of Education.

Integrated cultivation of “5+3” system in the stomatology lays a solid foundation for students’ occupational development. Graduates will be awarded Practicing Certificate of Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner, certificate of standardized training for resident doctors, graduation certificate of stomatology masters, and master degree certificate of stomatology. Graduates mainly engage in medicine, teaching and research of stomatology in general hospitals and stomatological hospitals, some choose to continue for a higher degree.