Undergrad grades and specializing

[bvf]

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If you are looking at specializing, do specialty programs look at your undergrad grades, research, DAT scores, etc.? Or is it just your dental school grades, board scores, dental research?

 

[shabu2]

If you are looking at specializing, do specialty programs look at your undergrad grades, research, DAT scores, etc.? Or is it just your dental school grades, board scores, dental research?

They do if you apply to 6yr MD integrated OMFS programs, but only because the med schools ask.

 

[bvf]

Thanks shabu2. I have heard mixed opinions on the subject. I am looking to go into OMFS, but I think I will do a 4 year program.

 

[rambo2006]

Wow, 4-6 years of residency after just fininshing 4 years of d-school which followed 4 years of undergrad....that is some serious dedication.

 

[bvf]

Wow, 4-6 years of residency after just fininshing 4 years of d-school which followed 4 years of undergrad....that is some serious dedication.

That's why they make 2X what a GP makes in half the time. 😉

 

[danhook]

I would like to see the research, data, and statistical variables on that one! so its proven that they make twice as much in half the time?

 

[rambo2006]

That's why they make 2X what a GP makes in half the time. 😉

Well its not that cut and dry as ppl make it seem. I talked to an OMFS and they said that making more means that the tax bracket is raised and the proportion u pay is much more then a GP (in general). Another thing is that the income of GPs is pretty variable. Dentistry isnt just a health care profession, its a business where making specific decisions save tons of money. In the city of duluth, there is a GP whose gross annual income ~750,000 because he own his practice and has a few dentists work there with him and knows a thing or 2 about business

 

[bvf]

Well its not that cut and dry as ppl make it seem. I talked to an OMFS and they said that making more means that the tax bracket is raised and the proportion u pay is much more then a GP (in general). Another thing is that the income of GPs is pretty variable. Dentistry isnt just a health care profession, its a business where making specific decisions save tons of money. In the city of duluth, there is a GP whose gross annual income ~750,000 because he own his practice and has a few dentists work there with him and knows a thing or 2 about business

Very true. Some GP's do very well. I work for a GP who does invisalign, implants, full dentures, and can do a full crown in half an hour. He does very well but it has taken him a long time to acquire profeciency and speed in all these procedures. The truth is oral surgeons perform much high dollar procedures, ie. wisdom teeth extraction, which a good oral surgeon can do in half an hour and charge out $1,500 to 2,000 with minimal overhead. Imagine just having 5 appointments in day (less than 3 hours of surgery), you are looking at near $10,000 in gross income. I don't know of a G.P. who could gross that kind of money in a day. My current dentists production goal for a day is $5,000 and he meets that maybe once a week. He is a very good GP in an upper middle class suburb with a large patient pool. I have no statistical data but the math adds up to me.

 

[armorshell]

Low overhead + high gross = dollars

Look at endo for more information about how that works.

 

[bvf]

Low overhead + high gross = dollars

Look at endo for more information about how that works.

i would but i think endo has to be the most boring part of dentistry. I like OMFS because it pays almost as good as endo and you can do more interesting procedures. IMO.