Background: Bibliometric is the quantitative analysis of the characteristics of documents published by researchers.

Aim: The aim of this study is to make a bibliometric analysis of publications of Arab countries’ universities in dentistry between January 2010 and December 2020 based on publications appeared in the indexed journals on PubMed.

Materials and methods: Our work is an exhaustive retrospective descriptive study.

Results: Out of 22 Arab countries, 17 have at least one university of dentistry.
Our study showed the following results:
- 1337 articles were published.
- 59 universities from 15 countries published, which represents 32.2%.
- 433 professors have published at least one article, which represents 15.58%.
- Saudi Arabia is in the lead with 524 articles, which represents 39.19%.
- The Saudi Pr. Sadeq Ali Al Maweri occupies the 1st place with 27 articles.
- The Moroccan Bourzgui Farid and Ousehal Lahcen from Hassan II University occupy the 11th place with 8 articles.
- The contribution of Moroccan authors is 4.11%, occupying the 8th position among Arab countries.
- Descriptive cross-sectional studies are at the top of the ranking with 30.96% of articles.
- Oral surgery is at the top of the ranking with 30.66% of articles.

Conclusion: The results obtained showed that the rate of scientific production in dentistry at Arab dental universities has increased over the years; however, it is still far from that of European and American universities.

The infrastructure of research in the Arab world requires efforts from all those responsible.