The Department of Therapeutic Dentistry was established in October 1996. It was one of the first at the Dental Faculty of Vinnytsia National Medical University named after M.I. Pirogov. The sources of creation of departments of the dental faculty were, first of all, the rector of the university, academician V. M. Frost and Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor T. T. Postolovskaya. The first head of the department from 1996 to 2014 was Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor V. M. Kuligin. During the management of the department, she organized educational, methodological, scientific and medical work. The first base of the department was 3 training rooms in 30 Blocks street. From 1999 to 2005 the main base of the department was the dental department of the military hospital. Then the main base was in the research center of Vinnytsia National Medical University in 11 Medvedev street which consisted of 3 treatment rooms. Practical classes were also held on the bases of dental offices at Vinnytsia Building College and Vinnytsia National Agrarian University. The first teaching staff consisted of 7 teachers.

In March 2015 the department was headed by Assoc. Shinkaruk-Dikovitskaya Maria Mikhailovna. In February 2016, the department changed its location, the main base now has a large clinical room for 7 dental units, 5 training rooms each equipped with dental units, new sterilized machines, an assistant room with modern office equipment, as well as a dressing room for students. There is also a base in NDC on 11 Amosov street,  and a training class in the morphological building of Vinnytsia National Medical University after M.I Pirogov. Under the direction of the new head – MD, prof. Shinkaruk-Dikovitskaya M. M., the department staff works successfully: associate professor , PhD. L. O. Kovalchuk, associate professor. N. G. Gadzhula, associate professor. L. F. Kurdysh, associate professor. M. A. Gorai, associate professor. I. M. Gorlenko, associate professor. O. I. Kutelmach, associate professor. A. V. Povshenyuk, associate professor. T. V. Fedyk, associate professor. O. V. Muntian, associate professor. O.Y. Pylypiuk, ass. Filimonova S. O., associate professor T. O.Tepla, ass. Aleksyeyenko N. S. and ass. Vakhovskyi V. V.

The staff of the department issued educational and methodical manuals “Features of the Course and Treatment of Dental Caries and its Complications in Childhood”, “Caries of Teeth”, “Pulpit”, a training manual for English-speaking students of dental faculties of higher medical educational institutions which helps to improve training of dental students.
Educational and methodological work occupies a significant place in the activity of the department. At the Department of Therapeutic Dentistry students are engaged in 2, 3, 4, 5 years. During the study of the subject students take four grading tests, transfer and state exams, write educational and academic medical history. Second-year students study propaedeutics of therapeutic dentistry. At the end of the course, students take a grading test. The third-year students study odontopathology (dental caries, non-carious lesions, pulpitis, periodontitis). After 3 years, students take a transfer exam in the subject. The fourth-year students study periodontal tissue diseases. At the end of the course, students take a grading test.
Students of the 5th year in the 9th semester study diseases of the mucous membrane of the oral cavity and take a grading test; in the 10th semester they are subordinate and take a grading test. After the 5th year the graduates pass the complex practically-oriented state exam in the specialty “Dentistry”. The staff of the department created a bank of test tasks and complex qualification works, as well as models, phantoms, photos, slides, videos and other teaching aids for students’ training.

The staff of the department has published more than 300 scientific papers in domestic journals and abroad, articles are included in various scientific and metric bases, Web of Science, Scopus, received more than 20 patents for inventions, published information sheet, created a computer program. They regularly participate in the work of scientific, scientific-practical and methodological conferences, congresses, workshops and webinars on dentistry, visit dental exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. They are members of NGO “Association of Dentists of Ukraine” and NGO “Association of Doctors-periodontists of Ukraine “.