Maybe it's not just about the money. Maybe it's about how hard it is to get into medical school and how less so it is to get into dental school. Maybe its about some of us have worked our butts off through high school, undergrad, four years of medical school and 6 or 8 years of residency for the privelege of these procedures and others have taken the shorter and easier route. I've got nothing against dentists, but I've got nothing against scrub techs either, and I don't think dentists or scrub techs should be privy to physician procedures without being a physician no matter how many they have seen or assisted on. And, by the way, I can feel your response welling up saying that you have worked as hard as any medical student and your talents are certainly as numerous, but without an MD behind your name, I don't buy it. I know you have to be near the top of your dental school class to get an OMFS fellowship, I also know you have to be at the top of your medical school class to get into plastics and of the fish that fill these two ponds, the bigger fish go to medical school.