DMD/DO

[fan2342]

Hi,

So I had a couple questions about a DO/DMD program since I heard about it and was interested.

I love both medical and dental field and am leaning towards dental but want to be involved with medical field. Is DO/DMD an option?

What are the business aspects and advantages of a DO/DMD?
What are my options with specializing and after school with DO/DMD?

Thanks

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[Cranjis McBasketball]

Hi,

So I had a couple questions about a DO/DMD program since I heard about it and was interested.

I love both medical and dental field and am leaning towards dental but want to be involved with medical field. Is DO/DMD an option?

What are the business aspects and advantages of a DO/DMD?
What are my options with specializing and after school with DO/DMD?

Thanks

That sounds awful.. Its like 6 years long and then you graduate and basically have to pick which one you want to practice with.. And now you have a lot more debt. Just shadow and do your due diligence before applying and pick just one of them. If you want medicine do medicine. If you want dental do dental. They are different careers and different grad schools for a reason. It is pointless to have a dual degree.

 

[JLT223]

NOVA is the only school that offers this and most people (meaning the THREE-FIVE who have ever done it) end up working in extremely rural areas to fulfill both the needs of a medical and a dental provider. Like the above poster said, they basically have to pick one and practice that if they want to make a decent income. At my interview I brought it up and was told basically told nobody does it because it's not worthwhile.

 

[fan2342]

So you wouldn't be able to specialize or anything right?

 

[JLT223]

So you wouldn't be able to specialize or anything right?

You'd be able to specialize in either medicine or dentistry

 

[fan2342]

You'd be able to specialize in either medicine or dentistry

Is one able to keep both professions with specialization?

 

[FlowerGirl35]

You'd be able to specialize in either medicine or dentistry

...tell me more

 

[JLT223]

Is one able to keep both professions with specialization?

If you specialize I'm pretty sure you have to limit your practice to that field. Like I said, this degree is very odd in that it's designed for general practitioners of both fields. It isn't like an MD/DDS/DMD dual degree that you gain through an oral surgery residency. If you want more info about it you're better off calling NOVA because they'd know more than anybody.