Dentistry - Dont do it for the money

[HupHolland]

what do you mean by having ortho patients? if you're a general practitioner, then you can do orthodontics on a patients (as in putting braces on them??)???

Umm... Yes, that's exactly what he means.

As a general dentist, you can do any procedure you want in the realm of dentistry (surgery, ortho, etc.) if you are capable of it. However, if ever tried in court and the work you performed isn't up to the level of what a reasonable specialist would have done, then you're looking to pay out a lot of money.

Hup

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[OceanDMD]

lol

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[xhamburgersamx]

Haha, I really don't even know why I'm bothering to respond to someone who's a predent...I obviously didn't get on here to flame people, my original intention was to help out and give people examples of recent grad financial situations. My wife, as I said, worked at the dental school I attended both in research as she is a statistician, and with the PI of her grant who was on the admin committee at my school. She also applied to dental school, got in, but didn't go. She occasionally logs in to SDN with my screen name because she knows way more about the dental school administration aspect than I do. She also did really well on the DAT and is way smarter than I am, so she has good applicant advice.

I am, in fact, a general dentist who grew up in Canada but am a dual citizen, and took out both US and Canadian loans. I am, in fact, producing and collecting the profit I claimed I did in above posts and I am currently meeting with my accountant to pay taxes on it, unfortunately.

I envy people that have the time to collect different facts from threads in the pursuit of proving someone wrong. Maybe you should be studying more for the DAT and less on SDN, eh?

Believe me or not, I couldn't care less. I was just trying to help. Good luck getting into dental school, it was a long 4 years but it paid off in the end.

At USC, students get half-tuition which saves 12.5K per semester if wife or husband is a USC employee of any sort, including being a janitor.

 

[TarheelDDS]

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[NileBDS]

Is that because ENT's are pulling wisdom teeth? I was under the impression that that procedure was the main bread/butter of OMS.

I really doubt ENT's know much about teeth, but there is quite some overlap in the scope of surgical procedures which they have knowledge of and those which pure bred OMFS train for, extensively (orthognathics, leforts, facial trauma, head and neck dissection, ...).

When roughly 8 of 10 OMFS grads are lost to private practice (not an accurate figure), guess who is called on when those cases show up?