The Edinburgh Dental Institute is a teaching body based in the Lauriston Building in Lauriston Place, Edinburgh. It is part of the University of Edinburgh.
The facility was formed as the Edinburgh Dental Dispensary in 1860.[1] It moved to a purpose-built building in Chambers Street as the Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School in 1927 and then joined the National Health Service in 1948.[1] The organisation moved to the Lauriston Building in 1997[2] and was renamed the Edinburgh Dental Institute in 1999.[3]