Kasturba College of Dental was established in 1965.

formerly known as College of Dental Surgery or Manipal College of Dental Sciences(MCODS). Dr. Sunder J. Vazirani nurtured the college during its teething stages.

It was small, had just one dental chair, forty students and a faculty of clinicians. Academically, the College of Dental Surgery, Manipal was affiliated to the Mysore University (1965-1980) and then to the Mangalore University (1980-1993) before becoming a part of the Manipal University.

The College provides more than 250 dental chairs and state-of-the-art laboratories with an intake of 100 undergraduate students and 25 postgraduate students for all specialties of dentistry.