American Dental Association (ADA) officially recognizes Dental Anesthesiology as a dental specialty

[deleted547631]

I'm interested to hear your opinions on this.

Dental Anesthesiology officially recognized the 10th dental specialty according to ADA as of 11 Mar 2019.

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[vector2]

Good for them. There’s only 300 of them in the entire country and they all have niche practices. I wouldn’t lose any sleep not having to do pedi/special needs dental and jaw fractures any more.

 

[deleted171991]

Here goes office-based well-paying pedi anesthesia?

 

[Beeftenderloin]

My residency will be picking up 1-2 of these trainees starting next academic cycle. Supposedly they will function as CA-1s who mostly do dental cases (and others when no dental is available), no call. Not particularly thrilled.

 

[Consigliere]

There is nothing I care less about.

 

[pgg]

My residency will be picking up 1-2 of these trainees starting next academic cycle. Supposedly they will function as CA-1s who mostly do dental cases (and others when no dental is available), no call. Not particularly thrilled.

Is this any better or worse than having an OMFS working as a CA1 for their 6 month block?

I wouldn't think the loss of dental cases would be a problem for an otherwise solid residency program.

 

[leaverus]

There is nothing I care less about.

if that were actually true, you wouldn't have even wasted the time and effort to make that post.

 

[Mman]

My residency will be picking up 1-2 of these trainees starting next academic cycle. Supposedly they will function as CA-1s who mostly do dental cases (and others when no dental is available), no call. Not particularly thrilled.

when I was a med student, the residency program at our school had 1 or 2 dental residents functioning as CA1s in the room. I think they mostly just did straight forward GA cases and some peds.

 

[Consigliere]

if that were actually true, you wouldn't have even wasted the time and effort to make that post.

Well, now the thing I care least about is your reply.

 

[anbuitachi]

My residency will be picking up 1-2 of these trainees starting next academic cycle. Supposedly they will function as CA-1s who mostly do dental cases (and others when no dental is available), no call. Not particularly thrilled.

i would not be happy if this happened at my program. dental/OMFS cases are pretty much one of the only source of nasal intubation practice that we get here!

 

[deleted697535]

Isnt dental statistically one of the most dangerous anesthetics delivered? Even CRNAs are better trained than a dentist with 6 months airway experience and never having done a call...

 

[coffeebythelake]

we've had a few dental "residents" rotate through.
the ones i've worked with were horrible.
i guess if they're going to ding some teeth, they're the ones who will end up fixing them. hopefully at a huge discount.

 

[Beeftenderloin]

i would not be happy if this happened at my program. dental/OMFS cases are pretty much one of the only source of nasal intubation practice that we get here!

Same at my place. Our home site is also not a major pediatric center. The bulk of our peds is at one of the 2 major children’s hospitals in town. When we’re “home,” dental and ENT is about 90% of peds we see. Yet another reason I’m not super pumped. Leadship insists it won’t inpact our training though...

 

[Mman]

Isnt dental statistically one of the most dangerous anesthetics delivered? Even CRNAs are better trained than a dentist with 6 months airway experience and never having done a call...

those dentists actually have bigger case requirements than graduating SRNAs. Also not sure what "never having done a call" means since SRNAs are also not required to take any call to become a CRNA.

 

[deleted875186]

We have oral surgery residents that rotate at my residency. They do GA cases and a lot of the peds dental cases. They do a lot of nasal intubations. It wasn’t until my mid CA2 year I did a nasal intubation, when I told my attending he was shocked. So yes they take most of the nasal intubations. Plus, they aren’t on the call pool... other than that I like the residents.

 

[chocomorsel]

Isnt dental statistically one of the most dangerous anesthetics delivered? Even CRNAs are better trained than a dentist with 6 months airway experience and never having done a call...

Their residency is actually three years. Not six months. And some do take call.

They are more “dangerous” per say because they are often done in a dentist office with no one else to help when stuff go south. And many of those patients are peds patients.

 

[chocomorsel]

we've had a few dental "residents" rotate through.
the ones i've worked with were horrible.
i guess if they're going to ding some teeth, they're the ones who will end up fixing them. hopefully at a huge discount.

Where these general dental residents or dentist anesthesia residents?
There’s a difference. I am no expert, but they train in anesthesia for three years.

 

[coffeebythelake]

Where these general dental residents or dentist anesthesia residents?
There’s a difference. I am no expert, but they train in anesthesia for three years.

they were dental residents. i think they have to do a month or couple month rotations in anesthesia.
worked with a couple before
worse than starting CA1s