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whats the difference btw DMD and DDS?
nev said:no difference at all
Audio said:With the DMD, you sound like you're an MD specializing in Dentistry but with a DDS you're a surgeon which is really really cool 🙄
I'd be interested to see how much literature you can find to substantiate this. I've never found anything to suggest any difference has ever existed between the two degrees.jpollei said:Actually philisophies behind the degrees vary quite a bit, historically speaking....A very broad generalization may be that DMD students have more of a medical-based education and DDS students have more of a traditional education.
There's actualy a pretty good old thread about this somewhere on SDN...
jpollei said:Actually philisophies behind the degrees vary quite a bit, historically speaking. Practically, though, there's not too much difference. A very broad generalization may be that DMD students have more of a medical-based education and DDS students have more of a traditional education (though those meanings are arguable, too. 🙂)
There's actualy a pretty good old thread about this somewhere on SDN...
what about the north and the east : pgeckel said:Absolutely no practical difference between the two. I think that western schools like DMD and southern schools like DDS. Either way I would be happy just to get in a school this year........don't really care which ending to my name I get.
geckel said:Either way I would be happy just to get in a school this year........don't really care which ending to my name I get.