Dentist Exposure in Hospital Setting

[kickbum]

Just out of curiosity, what is the exposure of a dentist like in the hospital setting? Are most dentists limited to private practice and only OMFS in the hospital setting or do most dentists have some form of exposure in the hospital

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[iluvnetters]

Theres hospital dentistry positions in basically every hospital, but the vast majority of dentists and OMFS reside in private practice.

 

[charlestweed]

I did a year of GPR at a hospital setting. Most of the patients that I treated were type of patients that most private practice dentists didn't want to touch. Most of them were medically compromised patients (heart transplants, sickle cell anemia, leukemia, diabetes etc) and I had to call their physicians for medical clearance for their permissions to stop the anticoagulant meds. Many of them were dental phobic patients and mentally disabled patients, who had to be put to sleep (either IV sedation or general anesthesia) for dental treatments. I had to come in in the middle of the night a few times to do I&D on patients with dental abscess, to splint a completely advulsed tooth etc by myself.....no assistant. For post-radiation patients, who had oral cancer, I couldn't extract their lower teeth because of the osteoradionecrosis risk....I had to chop off the carious crowns, did the RCTs and put amalgam dome on the roots. It's a good learning experience but it's not something that I'd do every single day....too much stress and high liability risk.

 

[setdoc7]

There are many dentists, although mostly in the northeast, that work in hospitals. NY is the residency capital of the US, so you will find the most hospital employed (non military)Dentists here. Runs the gamut from GP, specialists, and OMFS.