Doctor of Dental Medicine

The DMD degree, referring to Doctor of Dental Medicine denotes one of a few degrees that are awarded for dentists, the others being Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS), Bachelor of Dentistry (BDent), or Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS)or(B.Ch.D), all of which are equivalent degrees for the practice of Dentistry.

The first use of the DMD degree (which stood for "Dentariae Medicinae Doctorae") was in 1867 by the Harvard University Dental School (now known as the Harvard School of Dental Medicine), which the ADA describes as "the first university-affiliated dental institution."