Future of a GP

[Dent001]

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I posted this in the practicing dentist forum. Maybe some of you have some ideas too.

How does the future of a GP look in terms of Scope of procedures done on patients?

1. Implants. More and more GP's are placing implants in there patients. Some dental schools are even training there students in implants. I know in the past when implantology was first emerging it was mainly done by OMFS or periodontists'. What about implants with sinus lifts and bone grafts?

2. Root canals. Do you see GP's doing more root canal work themselves compared to past years? When i interviewed in ASDOH the dean told me the students graduate with an average of at least a 100 root canal procedures done. some schools only require like 6 or 7.


3. I know the new hot thing is digital imaging and a lot of GP's are switching over to that. ASDOH has a cone beam it trains it's students in. Do many GP's use cone beams in private practice or do you see them using it more in the future? I know they are really expensive, but as years pass technology advances and always gets cheaper too, right?


What other procedures do you see GP's doing more in the future???

 

[doc toothache]

2. Root canals. Do you see GP's doing more root canal work themselves compared to past years? When i interviewed in ASDOH the dean told me the students graduate with an average of at least a 100 root canal procedures done. some schools only require like 6 or 7.

Either the dean has misplaced a decimal point or Mesa is the Mecca for endo.

 

[Dent001]

Either the dean has misplaced a decimal point or Mesa is the Mecca for endo.

i know it sounds kinda far fetched, i was suprised too. But they told us its cuz they have such a huge patient pool. Plus the only graduate program they have is orthodontics so all the complex dental cases are seen by the students and not stolen by the grads.