Specializing

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Is it worth to specialize in OMFS or is it better to stay as a general dentist? In terms of both the job prospect, school debt, and salary. Thanks, just wondering 😀

 

[amfassz]

dental4lyfe strikes again

 

[Bereno]

 

[Sublimazing]

Why limit yourself? Do "general omfs"...crown the whizzie, extract it...buy a lambo...or at least a chevy with the butterfly doors

 

[Bereno]

I say get dual boarded in OMFS and Ortho. Last time I saw, those guys make serious bank.

 

[TheWeeIceMan]

I say get dual boarded in OMFS and Ortho. Last time I saw, those guys make serious bank.

👍This is credited, OP. If OMFS makes 400k and Ortho makes 300k, then that's a whole 700k per year! Add in some endo and you could bump your income into the 7 figure range.

 

[Miley Cyrus.]

I say get dual boarded in OMFS and Ortho. Last time I saw, those guys make serious bank.

It is already happening.
The University of Phoenix Dental School is rolling out a 5 year OMFS/Ortho program that will be accepting applicants in 2015. Tuition is $100k a year, but like TheWeelIceMan noted, your salary is 700k. So when you get out of school you will have 500k debt, but your first year you make 700k, so you still make 200k profit.

I got connections with the residency director, so anyone PM me if you are interested.

 

[Glimmer1991]

It is already happening.
The University of Phoenix Dental School is rolling out a 5 year OMFS/Ortho program that will be accepting applicants in 2015. Tuition is $100k a year, but like TheWeelIceMan noted, your salary is 700k. So when you get out of school you will have 500k debt, but your first year you make 700k, so you still make 200k profit.

I got connections with the residency director, so anyone PM me if you are interested.

I heard that UoP has a 4-year OMFS/Ortho program in the works that will begin accepting applicants in 2016. Tuition is 300k a year, but you have an extra year of earning potential, so it is totally worth it.

 

[sjv]

It is already happening.
The University of Phoenix Dental School is rolling out a 5 year OMFS/Ortho program that will be accepting applicants in 2015. Tuition is $100k a year, but like TheWeelIceMan noted, your salary is 700k. So when you get out of school you will have 500k debt, but your first year you make 700k, so you still make 200k profit.

I got connections with the residency director, so anyone PM me if you are interested.

Hook it up?!

 

[Bereno]

I heard that UoP has a 4-year OMFS/Ortho program in the works that will begin accepting applicants in 2016. Tuition is 300k a year, but you have an extra year of earning potential, so it is totally worth it.

Keeping in UoP style they moved their OMFS program down to 3 years. Just a heads up 😉

 

[yappy]

I say get dual boarded in OMFS and Ortho. Last time I saw, those guys make serious bank.

It sounds crazy but I shadowed an OMFS/Prosth that did extremely well because he did complex cases from start to finish.

 

[Datooth]

I say get dual boarded in OMFS and Ortho. Last time I saw, those guys make serious bank.

With all the surgical skills and fondness for placing metal into small spaces, it makes it quite easy to rob the bank too. Just hit a few places a year and you'll be living the life OP.

 

[Bereno]

It sounds crazy but I shadowed an OMFS/Prosth that did extremely well because he did complex cases from start to finish.

I have heard of OMFS prosth as well. Makes the most sense out of all combinations of specialties IMO (save maybe endo and prosth). However, the least related specialties to each other are probably OMFS and Ortho lol.

 

[Sublimazing]

I have heard of OMFS prosth as well. Makes the most sense out of all combinations of specialties IMO (save maybe endo and prosth). However, the least related specialties to each other are probably OMFS and Ortho lol.

They work together a lot though. I also know a few omfs who did perio afterwards so that they could get sick nasty at suturing....just running sutures for days.

 

[Bereno]

They work together a lot though. I also know a few omfs who did perio afterwards so that they could get sick nasty at suturing....just running sutures for days.

Lol

 

[ToothbrushBuddy]

I think that being a general dentist is best because you can get trained in the specialties by doing continuing education courses and still do all of the general dental work. A specialist can't practice outside of their specialty.