Organization

The School is managed by the Dean and the School Council. The Dean is the head of the School, represents and advocates for the School and is responsible for the legality of its work. The Dean has the powers and obligations of the director of the institution. The powers of the Dean are determined by the Law, the University Statute and the School Statute. The Dean is assisted in management by the Vice-Deans and Assistant Deans and the Dean's Board. The School Council is an expert council consisting of: the Dean, Vice-Deans, Heads of Departments and Heads of Independent Departments, elected representatives of employees in scientific-teaching, teaching and associate positions, elected representatives of students and an elected representative of other employees.

The School Council may establish permanent and temporary committees and commissions to study and prepare individual issues and to perform other tasks within its field of activity. 

The following committees have been established at the School: 

• Ethics Committee, 
• Doctoral Study Committee, 
• Teacher Selection Committee, 
• Committee for International Cooperation, 
• Committee for Teaching and Students, 
• Project Committee, 
• Committee for University Specialist Studies, 
• Committee for Quality Assurance and 
• Science Committee. 

The following committees have been established at the School: 

• Thesis Committee, 
• Committee for e-learning and digitalization, 
• Information and Marketing Committee, 
• Commission for Publishing Activities, 
• Commission for the development of qualification standards for doctors of dental medicine in accordance with the Croatian Qualifications Framework, 
• Library Committee, 
• Commission for the Organization and Implementation of Lifelong Learning, 
• Committee for the Evaluation of Study Programs from Higher Education Institutions from Non-EU Countries, 
• Commission for recognition of foreign professional qualifications of doctors of dental medicine, 
• Sports and Recreation Committee, 
• Committee on Judicial Affairs and 
• Committee for introducing students to scientific work.

The School is a unique public institution in terms of its structure. The organizational units are:

1. internal organizational units: institutes, departments and laboratories,

2. external organizational units-teaching bases: clinics and clinical institutes,

3. professional and administrative organizational units: Secretariat and Dean's Office,

4. central dental library.

The School has the following departments:

1. Department of Dental Anthropology , which also includes:

• Department of Forensic Dentistry

• Department of Social Medicine and Oral Epidemiology

• Laboratory for hard dental tissues

2. Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry

3. Department of Endodontics and Restorative Dentistry , which also includes:

• Dental materials laboratory

4. Factory for fixed protetic devices

• Dental laboratory for fixed prosthetics

5. Department of Mobile Prosthetics

• Dental laboratory for mobile prosthetics

6. Department of Oral Surgery , which also includes:

• Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimatology

• Department of Maxillofacial Surgery

7. Department of Oral Medicine

8. Institute of Orthodontics

• Dental laboratory for orthodontics

9. Department of Periodontology

The School has the following independent chairs in its teaching bases:

• Chair of Dermatovenerology

• Chair of Pharmacology

• Chair of Physiology

• Chair of Gynecology and Obstetrics

• Chair of Immunology

• Chair of Infectious Diseases

• Chair of Internal Medicine

• Chair of Surgery

• Chair of Clinical Microbiology

• Chair of Neurology

• Chair of Ophthalmology

• Chair of Oncology and Nuclear Medicine

• Chair of General and Dental Radiology

• Chair of General and Social Studies

• Chair of Otorhinolaryngology

• Chair of Pathophysiology

• Chair of Pathology

• Chair of Pediatrics

• Chair of Psychiatry with Medical Psychology

The medical departments that conduct classes at the Faculty based on external cooperation with the School of Medicine of the University of Zagreb are:

• Chair of Anatomy

• Chair of Biophysics

• Chair of Biochemistry

• Chair of Biology

• Chair of Histology with Embryology Department of Chemistry

• Chair of Statistics and Informatics