Located in the Longwood Area of the Boston Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is an intimate community of students and faculty. Founded in 1867 as the Harvard Dental School, it was the first university-based dental school in the country. It was also the first dental school to be established in close affiliation with a medical school (Harvard Medical School) and to make the full scholarly and scientific resources of a university available to dental education. In 1940, under President James B. Conant, the School was reorganized as Harvard School of Dental Medicine to place stronger emphasis on the biological basis of oral medicine and to institute multidisciplinary programs of dental research.