How intense in OMFS residency?

[Batmansvoice]

I'm planning to do an externship later this summer, but am interested in a current response. People I have asked in past years have claimed that their programs were nicknamed the divorce residency. Others said it was easier than dental school. I'm trying to gauge how brutal it will be to prepare myself...

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[CMistry]

Others said it was easier than dental school.

PLEASE let me know which program this person went to. I find it hard to believe any OMFS program in this country is easier than dental school.

The people who call it the "divorce residency" are probably closer to the money than those who call it "easier than dental school". It's very demanding, it will eat up your life, and you have to love it. (Aside from the med school years...)

 

[Epictetus21]

To quote an Oral Surgeon that graduated just a few years ago, "Oral Surgery residency makes dental school look like preschool."

To quote a 3rd year endo resident at my dental school, "to do an OMFS residency there is one qualification, you have to be certifiably insane."

I mean no disrespect. I think the OS guys are fantastic, and the most highly trained specialists in dentistry. They just have a ridiculous residency.

 

[alxspider]

It is definitely dependent on the program you go to. Just look at some of the numbers that programs put out in terms of the procedures done. I think programs like UT-Galveston are more like dental school than the hell programs.

 

[DrTacoElf]

OMFS residency is nothing compared to trauma/gen surg/neurosurgery residency. Just want to throw that out there.

 

[Batmansvoice]

OMFS residency is nothing compared to trauma/gen surg/neurosurgery residency. Just want to throw that out there.

I guess I'll try to get a better idea during my externship. I heard from some it was harder than general surgery and other med surgical specialties. And some said it was pretty much like any other dental residency (she compared it to endo, perio).

 

[Diezel69x]

OMFS residency is nothing compared to trauma/gen surg/neurosurgery residency. Just want to throw that out there.

Yes but you gotta do a year of gen surg/trauma, having no plans doing it in the future. That i think is the hardest part...

 

[DrFelt]

And some said it was pretty much like any other dental residency (she compared it to endo, perio).

I've also heard that a lot of OS programs are comparable to Perio programs in intensity.

 

[TJNova2011]

I've also heard that a lot of OS programs are comparable to Perio programs in intensity.

Is this because they ultimately end up doing the same thing in private practice IV, implants and thirds?

 

[The Anhedonia]

Is this because they ultimately end up doing the same thing in private practice IV, implants and thirds?

no silly perio residency is so rigorous from the perio plastic surgery that they do

 

[Wax n Relax]

no silly perio residency is so rigorous from the perio plastic surgery that they do

Soft tissue preservation!

 

[TJNova2011]

no silly perio residency is so rigorous from the perio plastic surgery that they do

They get trained three years in the micro and macro periodontal plastic surgery while OMFS are replacing mandibles and doing resections that none will complete in private practice. Is perio the new OMFS?

 

[DrTacoElf]

They get trained three years in the micro and macro periodontal plastic surgery while OMFS are replacing mandibles and doing resections that none will complete in private practice. Is perio the new OMFS?

OMG

Radial forearm osteocutaneous flap for simultaneous bone and soft tissue regeneration when attachment loss is 10mm plus 😱 Coming to a perio residency near you

 

[TJNova2011]

OMG

Radial forearm osteocutaneous flap for simultaneous bone and soft tissue regeneration when attachment loss is 10mm plus 😱 Coming to a perio residency near you

So, the periodontist will toss you the bone every blue moon that comes, dagone.

 

[OMFS8]

I'm in a six-year OMS residency, finishing up medical school. One of the surgeons during my General Surgery rotation said it best, "If you can see yourself doing ANYTHING other than surgery... do that."

In short, if you love what you do, then "intensity" should not be an issue. You should WANT an intense program. Otherwise, you are wasting your time.

No one can tell you whether or not it's "worth it." Do the externship and decide for yourself. For me, I could not imagine myself doing anything else. I truly love it.

 

[armorshell]

They get trained three years in the micro and macro periodontal plastic surgery while OMFS are replacing mandibles and doing resections that none will complete in private practice. Is perio the new OMFS?

You think sewing your cute little vessels is hard? Don't you know that the gingiva is the most delicate tissue in the body and only the most precise of periodontal microplastic surgeons have the hand skills to deal with issues such as that?

 

[DREDAY]

OMFS residency is nothing compared to trauma/gen surg/neurosurgery residency. Just want to throw that out there.

I've had the opposite experience. OMFS is much more strenuous for me than gen surg/trauma.

 

[DREDAY]

They get trained three years in the micro and macro periodontal plastic surgery while OMFS are replacing mandibles and doing resections that none will complete in private practice. Is perio the new OMFS?

How about an ABBE flap or a karapandzic flap for lip reconstruction, or a cervicofascial flap for facial defect reconstruction, or a pectoralis major flap for lower face soft tissue reconstruction, or a paramedian flap for nose reconstruciton, or a temporalis flap for oroantral fistula closure, or a postauricular advancement flap with cartillage graft for ear reconstruction, dont forget the fullthickness and split thickness skin grafts ......I bet the "plastic surgery" periodontists are doing are muuuuuuch more complicated than these "minor procedures" us OMFS are doing. riiiiiiggghhhttt 👍

once youve done a few locoregional flaps and you know your anatomy well, you can do em all.

 

[DrFelt]

a pectoralis major flap for lower face soft tissue reconstruction

Really? How many of those do you think the average Oral Surgeon does a year? Decade? Or even once for that matter.

Most of the Oral Surgeons at my school and in my community seem like really decent guys. Why is that the Oral Surgeons on SDN seem like total d-bags?

 

[DREDAY]

Really? How many of those do you think the average Oral Surgeon does a year? Decade? Or even once for that matter.

Most of the Oral Surgeons at my school and in my community seem like really decent guys. Why is that the Oral Surgeons on SDN seem like total d-bags?

"D-bag" comments receive "D-bag" responses.

My response was to the comment attacking OMFS experience performing "oral plastic surgery". My argument being that "once youve done a few flaps(especially complicated ones like we do), you can do them all.