The Faculty of Dental Sciences, is the only educational institution in Sri Lanka , which conducts a program, leading to the degree Bachelor in Dental Surgery (BDS). In addition the faculty conducts several short-term and long-term post-graduate courses.

The Peradeniya Dental (Teaching) Hospital, functions as the clinical unit of the faculty. This, the only dental hospital in Sri Lanka, open to the public from June 1998, was built with aid from the Japanese government, and is considered one of the best of its kind in South-east Asia. It functions as a primary treatment centre for all types of dental treatments, as well as a tertiary referral unit. Specialists in Oral and Maxillo-facial surgery, Oral Medicine, Restorative Dentistry, Prosthetics, Periodontology, Community Dentistry, Paedodontics and Orthodontics, attached to specialized clinics may be consulted at this hospital. The clinical services are supported by well equipped laboratories and a radiography unit for special investigations. The hospital also has an operating theatre, ward, and an Intensive Care Unit, which are closely linked to the work of the Maxillo- facial Surgery clinic.

The specialist clinics house altogether 130 Dental chairs and units. The hospital attracts an average of 65000 patients annually, from all of Sri Lanka .