The Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery (sometimes referred to informally as the Pennsylvania Dental College) was founded in 1856 in Philadelphia and was the second oldest operating school of dentistry in the United States at the time of its founding. From its faculty came what are today the dental schools of Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania.
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