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Just curious if anyone knows what AF bases have the AEGD program? I've heard 10 bases do but only know of Langely, Wright-Patterson and Eglin. Anyone know the others?
Wright-Patterson- Dayton, OH
Langley-Hampton, VA
Travis-Fairfield, Ca
Barksdale-Shreveport, La. Sometimes the AEGD for C dentists, usually the AEGD for B dentists. Let me know if this needs clarification
Eglin-around Panama City, FL
Sheppard-Wichita Falls, TX
Scott- outside of St. Louis, IL (kind of)
Bolling-Wash, DC
Andrews- Wash, DC
Keesler-Biloxy, MS
Nellis- Las Vegas, NV
Air Force Academy- Colorado Springs, CO
The AEGD-2 is either at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX or at Bethesda with the Navy.
I don't think there is one at Offut AFB in Omaha, Nebraska anymore.
Wright-Patterson- Dayton, OH
Langley-Hampton, VA
Travis-Fairfield, Ca
Barksdale-Shreveport, La. Sometimes the AEGD for C dentists, usually the AEGD for B dentists. Let me know if this needs clarification
Eglin-around Panama City, FL
Sheppard-Wichita Falls, TX
Scott- outside of St. Louis, IL (kind of)
Bolling-Wash, DC
Andrews- Wash, DC
Keesler-Biloxy, MS
Nellis- Las Vegas, NV
Air Force Academy- Colorado Springs, CO
The AEGD-2 is either at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX or at Bethesda with the Navy.
I don't think there is one at Offut AFB in Omaha, Nebraska anymore.
I planned on doing my three years and getting out. Now I'm starting OMS. I don't know if I will just do my payback (11 years) total, or go career. No one plans on doing it for a career. I think you just find a niche and go with it. There are many pluses but definitly minuses (moving every 3-4 years).
At the end of your residency, your director sends your credential recommendations to your gaining base. The credential folder has a list of about every possible dental procedure in every specialty. Your director fills this out with guidance from the specialists you worked under in the AEGD.
It works like this. You are given a "1" if you can do this unsupervised, a "2" if you can do it, but you need to have someone with a "1" to supervise you, a "3" if your base does not support this procedure (use of a laser for ex), or a "4" if you flat out can't do it. A "4" for example would state a general dentist can't do radical neck disections for cancer patients.
I honestly don't know how they credential someone who doesn't do a residency. I have sat on the board. You probably will work on an "amalgam line", do single unit crowns, lots of exams, and maybe some endo. It is just general stuff.
If you, like you said, want to "see and do as much as possible..learning as much as possible is really important to me.", then consider the AEGD. You will definitly see and do more. Plus 32 y/o isn't that old. I personnaly think the extra year is worth it.
yea that's true, but remember, your commander has to be credentialed to do the procedure. You still must have a "2" on your six part folder to be allowed to do it even if your commander "lets you". This goes back to "earning" new credentials. Your commander can't say, "hey go ahead and make this guy a new face because we don't have maxillofacial prosthodontist".