The Malaysian Dental Council (MDC) is a statutory body established under the Dental Act 1971. The Council aims to ensure the highest professional standards and ethics in the practice of dentistry in the interest of patients, the public and the profession through the administration of the Dental Act 1971
 

"An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the registration and practice of dental practitioners and for national purposes to provide for certain provisions with regard to a period of service in the public services after registration as a dental practitioner; and to make provision for purposes connected with the aforesaid matter"