It is located in the heart of Downtown Montreal across the Roddick Gates entrance to the McGill campus.

It is the only dental program in the country that integrates MD and DMD education in single classes for the first four semesters of the "Fundamentals of Medicine and Dentistry" curriculum.

[6] As a bilingual professional school, it later became a part of Bishop's University's Faculty of Medicine in 1896 and all graduates were offered the degree of Doctor in Dental Surgery (DDS).

[7] In 1904, it became the McGill Dental School as a department within the faculty of medicine at McGill as part of its amalgamation of Bishop's University's relatively small faculty of medicine and offering Master's in Dental Surgery (MDS) degree.

[10] In October 1908, McGill decided that the those who graduated earlier that year with their MDS should be made Doctors of Dental Science (DDS).

This process also gave direction for planning, programming and implementation of policies, strategies and new initiatives across the Faculty of Dentistry during the five-year period 2021–2026.

students in the Fundamentals of Medicine and Dentistry curriculum in the first 18 months of their medical education, along with additional dentistry-related courses.

[23] Approximately one-third of all oral health-related research in Canada is performed at McGill despite it being represented by only 5% of the Canadian dentistry professors.

[26] The faculty also hosts its research activities within multiple research sites including at the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences building on Sherbrooke, at the Montreal General Hospital, the Jewish General Hospital, the Montreal Children's Hospital, the Strathcona Anatomy & Dentistry Building, the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit, and at the McGill Faculty of Medicine.

[30] As of the year 2014, applicants are interviewed via Multiple Mini-Interviews (MMI) held at the McGill University Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning (SCSIL), along with the prospective Faculty of Medicine students.

[33] McGill Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences students have the highest rate of residency or specialization in the country with approximately 90% of the graduating students ultimately continuing their education via either specialty or residency.