Sciences of dental materials encompass the development, characterization, use and evaluation of the materials used to repair or replace teeth. It represents a nexus between the basic and clinical sciences.

This discipline to dentistry is an interdisciplinary area that applies Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Metallurgy to the development, understanding, and evaluation of materials used in the practice of dentistry; principally involved in restorative dentistry, prosthodontics, pedodontics, and orthodontics.

This above subject is taught in 1st year and it forms the pillar of basic clinical dental practice & the undergraduate students at UMDC will be taught the material handling and their applications with the passage of time at different levels of their educational career in dentistry.