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Dental Nursing profession, relatively new in Nigeria and some other parts of the world. Before the emergence of Dental Nursing cadre, Dental surgery Assistant was brought to Nigeria in the Late 60s from United Kingdom. They were trained to assist the Dentist and to perform the clinic running. The Dental surgery Assistant meta-morphose to Dental surgery Technician, years of training was increased from 24months of training to 36months, and was grouped under the Technician cadre. There was a call by the nomenclature of the Dental surgery Technician and also the training curriculum to be up graded to accommodate more of Nursing jobs because of the new trends in dental practice sometimes in the 90s some Dental surgery Assistants from United kingdom visited LUTH, to rub minds with the dental surgery Assistant's Executives in Nigeria. It was agrees upon in the meeting that the new name should "DENTAL NURSE" should be embraced. In the Annual general meeting of the Dental surgery Assistants in United Kingdom, the house voted and it was unanimously agreed to adopt the new name "DENTAL NURSE" Back to Nigeria, the case was presented to the Federal Ministry of health, it was agreed upon that additional training should be organized for the trained Dental Surgery Technician on ground and the fresher's will run the training for four years. The federal ministry of health issued a circular to that effect in 1999. In 2010, the training started in LUTH at ND level and conversion course was organized for the practicing DST. The circular stipulated four (4yrs) years training for the new intakes. In 2016/2017 the department of Dental Nursing under the faculty of health science of Federal College of Dental Technology and Therapy Enugu, Nigeria was established. The Dental Nurse National and Higher National Diploma Programme is a generic Dental programme developed in response to the societal needs and demand for polyvalent Dental Nurses who are educated in an inition of higher learning. The current trends in dental practice also justify a higher academic level of scientific involvement in the practice of with new developments, challenges and technological advancement in 2016/17 session under the headship of Mohammed D Ismail were admitted in accordance to the National Board for Technical Education. The Dental Nursing programme was designed in recognition of the college responsibility to the society in producing skilled discipline and humane Dental Nursing profession (Healthy mouth, Healthy Body). Federal College of Technology and Therapy gave birth to Oyo State Dental Nursing department barely two years ago when National Board for the Technical Education came for the accreditation of Dental Nursing and Dental Nursing and Dental Therapy Courses under the Headship of Mrs. YK Ologunja the Head, Oral health sciences department, Oyo state college of Health Science and Technology.