The Dental Hospital was established in association with the School of Medicine at Owens College in 1884.

Fund raising was slow in response to a public appeal and only in 1908 was the hospital able to occupy a new building on Oxford Road next to the Manchester Museum, designed in the Edwardian Baroque style by the architects Charles Heathcote & Sons.

[2] In the 1940s, a new hospital was built further west on Bridgeford Street through the generosity of Sir Samuel Turner (1878–1955).

[3] This is now the University Dental Hospital of Manchester; the facility was enlarged by the construction of an additional top floor in the 1990s.

The old hospital building was later used for scientific teaching and later still by the Manchester Museum which still occupies it.