Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School 1862-1992

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Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School 1862-1992

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26 shelf metres: bound volumes, papers, photographic material

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Lothian Health Servces Archive, University of Edinburgh

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In 1856 Dr John Smith gave a course on "physiology and diseases of the teeth" at Surgeon's Hall. The first special treatment of dental disease was carried out at the Royal Public Dispensary. The Edinburgh Dental Dispensary opened in 1860. In 1878 the Dispensary and the Scottish Dental Education Committee co-operated to found the Dental Hospital and School, which was incorporated in 1892. After occupying several sites, it settled permanently in Chambers Street, where a new building opened in 1927...