Robert Blake (1772 – 25 March 1822) was an Irish dentist and notable figure in the field of dental science in Dublin.
He graduated from the Department of Physics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in September 1798, after initially training as a dentist under his uncle, Edward Hudson.
"Blake's thesis, Disputatio medica inauguralis, de dentium formatione et structura in homine et in variis animalibus, was first published in Edinburgh in September, 1798.
It was republished in Dublin in 1801 by William Porter, expanded and translated into English, under the title of An Essay on the Structure and Formation of the Teeth in Man and Various Animals.
His ideas respecting the 'crusta petrosa' were original at the time, and have since been generally acquiesced in; but his views on most of the functions of the dental capsule are similar to those entertained by other writers, and very different from the opinions which I shall have an opportunity of stating in the course of the present work.