The center takes the highest in China, the leading in Asia and the first class in the world as the yardstick. Taking the comprehensive establishment of a high-quality, efficient and sound oral health service system as the goal, connecting with  Healthy China 2020 program , adhering to the people-centered development idea, and relying on the construction layout of Shanghai Asian medical center and the overall strength and advantages of the hospital, coordinating with the national oral medical service layout strategy, planning the oral medical resources and innovative forces, optimizing the allocation of oral medical resources, promoting the homogenization of medical services, and building a systematic, large-scale, collaborative and integrated national center which is suitable for the needs of national development strategy.

National Center of Stomatology (Shanghai) taking Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital as the main body is granted by National Health Commission in December 2020.

Relying on Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital and College of Stomatology Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The discipline is the National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases Construction Unit. It is a national key discipline, the first batch of 211 project construction disciplines, the first batch of "double first-class" construction disciplines, the first batch of national first-class undergraduate majors, and the first batch of specialty construction sites with characteristics of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Education. It is also the Innovation unit of Stomatology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. And the major was selected as the national key clinical specialty. Our discipline has Shanghai-Sydney Joint Laboratory of Bioengineering and Regenerative Medicine and 6 international training and examination center such as the Oral and Maxillofacial Tumor Surgery and Reconstruction Training Center (the first in China) endorsed by the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (IAOMS).

The center now has a strong talent team, including two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, two specially appointed professors of Yangtze River scholars of the Ministry of education, one young Yangtze River scholars, one in charge of innovation research group of NSFC, two National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, one National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, one “Ten-thousand Talents Program” , and one Young and middle-aged leading talent in scientific and technological innovation, two Million Talents Project, two young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from the National Health Commission, seven “Shanghai Leading Talents Training Program”, seven high-quality overseas talents, and twenty-six people were selected into the fellow of the International College of Dentists. 146 persons are served as academic consultants or reviewers of well-known journals, and 50 are as key academic organizations.

Relying on the overall strength and advantages of Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital and College of Stomatology Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the stomatology and clinical medicines are organically crossed, integrated and shared. The center will focus on improving the diagnosis and treatment capacity of oral diseases in China, promoting the classification diagnosis and treatment of oral diseases, formulating technical specifications and clinical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of oral diseases, bringing up high-level oral medical talents, conducting basic research on clinical and application of oral diseases, laying out multi center, large samples, big-data and high-level transformation medical research, establishing an oral prevention management system covered full life cycle and provided for the whole pupulation, an intelligent information platform, developing social health public welfare services, and expanding the international influence of stomatology in China.