de'Montmorency College of Dentistry

de'Montmorency College of Dentistry sits on Fort Road in Lahore, next to the Badshahi Mosque ¹⁶. It is a public dental college in the UHS system ⁴. Our dataset records 1928 as the founding year and 110 BDS seats. The college keeps its home page at demontmorency.edu.pk ².

The UHS prospectus calls the college the oldest institute of dental sciences in the subcontinent ⁴. It records more than 93 years of dental training at the college ⁴. Admissions run through the UHS public BDS portal ⁴.

Students treat patients at Punjab Dental Hospital, the attached teaching hospital ⁴. Our dataset records 250 beds at the hospital. The prospectus records 125 dental units and chairs with 30 beds ⁴.

The UHS prospectus records 400 enrolled students and a campus area of one acre ⁴. Students from about seventeen countries study at the college ⁴.

The college was established in 1928 ¹. It takes its name from Sir Geoffrey Fitzhervey de Montmorency, then Governor of the Punjab ¹⁶. Dr Peter Gillies served as the first principal ¹. The college was formally instituted in 1934 ¹.

Punjab Dental Hospital began operations in April 1930 ¹. The hospital sits on a 12-kanal site next to Lahore’s historic Badshahi Mosque ¹. The hospital laid its foundation stone in 1928 and turned functional in 1930 ³. It stands as the first dental hospital of its kind in the sub-continent ³.

In 1936 the college started a full four-year BDS programme under the University of the Punjab ¹. The college grew into the largest training centre of dentistry in the country, as recorded in the UHS prospectus ⁴. It trains students from about seventeen countries ⁴.

The college added a campus at Government Nawaz Sharif Hospital, Yakki Gate, in 2002 ¹⁴. The Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery runs at that campus ¹. An IT department opened in 2004 through a Higher Education Commission project ¹.

The college runs postgraduate training in four major MDS disciplines and an MPhil in Basic Dental Sciences ⁴. It trains candidates for FCPS and MCPS in Orthodontics, Prosthodontics, Operative Dentistry and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ⁴. A Dental Technicians course also runs at the college ⁴.

Punjab Dental Hospital trains nearly 140 postgraduate students ³. About 100 house surgeons work at the hospital each year ³. The Dental Technician School opened in 1999-2000 with Asian Development Bank support ³.

Our dataset records four open-merit BDS aggregates at this college. The closing aggregate moved from 84.2% in 2022 to 85.65% in 2023, then to 88.4% in 2024 and 93.4636% in 2025.

UHS sets the aggregate with three components: 50% MDCAT, 40% HSSC and 10% SSC ⁴. Compare sessions with care. The MDCAT mark scale moved from 210 to 200 and then to 180 across recent sessions. The same percentage does not mean the same raw score in every row.

Our dataset records 110 BDS seats with a fee of PKR 32,000. The BDS programme needs at least 50% in MDCAT and 60% in HSSC Pre-Medical ⁴.

Punjab Dental Hospital is the attached teaching hospital ⁴. It began operations in April 1930 on a 12-kanal site beside the Badshahi Mosque ¹. Our dataset records 250 beds at the hospital. The UHS prospectus records 125 dental units and chairs with 30 beds ⁴.

The hospital laid its foundation stone in 1928 and turned functional in 1930 ³. The college was created inside the hospital premises in 1934 ³. The hospital trains nearly 140 postgraduate students and about 100 house surgeons each year ³.

The college lists its clinical departments on its website ². The list includes Operative Dentistry and Endodontics, Orthodontics and Prosthodontics ². Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Pathology and Periodontology join them ². Community Dentistry, Dental Materials, Oral Biology and Behavioural Sciences complete the list ².

The main campus sits on Fort Road in Lahore ⁴. The campus covers about one acre, as recorded in the UHS prospectus ⁴. The facilities recorded in our dataset include the Punjab Dental Hospital operatories and the maxillofacial surgery units. They also include the phantom head simulation lab, the heritage campus and the dental research library.

The college keeps two lecture theatres, an auditorium, a museum and a library with an e-library section ¹. Laboratories cover phantom head work, casting, wax and plaster, prosthetics and oral pathology ¹. Digital OPGs and intraoral cameras support clinical teaching ¹.

A hostel at Hassan Raza Hall in New Anarkali houses more than 250 students ¹. The UHS prospectus records two female hostels and one male hostel ⁴. Four college buses support transport for students ¹.

The Pakistan Medical and Dental Commission lists the college in its public dental register ⁵. The register shows 100 seats for the session we checked, while our dataset and the UHS prospectus record 110 ⁴⁵. Our dataset records PMDC recognition for the BDS programme.

The UHS prospectus records the college as a recognised training centre for FCPS and MCPS in four specialties ⁴. It runs an MDS in four major disciplines and an MPhil in Basic Dental Sciences ⁴.

Students from about seventeen countries study at the college ⁴. The UHS prospectus records 400 enrolled students ⁴. Our dataset marks the college as open to both men and women.

A hostel at Hassan Raza Hall houses more than 250 students ¹. The college keeps a girls’ common room, a cafeteria and a mosque on campus ¹. Four college buses run from the campus ¹.

The college runs an auditorium, two lecture theatres and a museum for student events ¹. The website lists a sports club and elections among student activities ². Alumni of the college form the DMCD GA association, as recorded in the UHS prospectus ⁴.