Dealing with a granuloma – any advice?
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Do you happen to know how to treat this? What is he supposed to do for those three weeks before the root canal?
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Medicine vs. Dentistry: Which path is better?
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Zachary Thompson9 said:True. But you also know that medicine & dentistry isn't quite as "intense"—it doesn't dive as deep as it does in internal medicine.
Isn't it a bit pretentious when some dentists claim they're the "real" doctors just because they think they know everything? 😉
Nobody—absolutely nobody—knows all of medicine, including dentistry. It’s impossible, and honestly, it wouldn't be good if they did. That's exactly why we have specialties and subspecialties. Whether or not dentistry is "easier" is debatable; you mostly study what's actually relevant to daily practice (even though we covered other stuff too, and I still don't get why we studied things like certain parts of gynecology 😕), and you're learning throughout your entire career. Even after graduation, you don't have total mastery; you just have a broad foundation. A dentist's medical knowledge upon graduation is similar to a general practitioner's—you know a little about everything, but nothing deeply specialized. Doctors move on to specialties, or if they stay in general practice, their scope is limited because most patients end up getting referred to specialists anyway.
Lawrence Wells—if you want my advice, don't even consider dentistry. It's a fantasy. Dentistry is 500 times easier than medicine, both in terms of schooling and finding a job.
Medicine vs. Dentistry: Which path is better?
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I forgot to mention—you can't just fast-track through dentistry in a year or two. You have to grind through it like everyone else: preclinical work and theory first, then clinical rotations.
I agree with my colleague. A doctor is a doctor. We should all stick to our respective specialties, whether it’s teeth, GI, or anything else. Unfortunately, based on what I've seen, plenty of medical professionals look down on our field and underestimate our expertise. (And if you actually want to be good at your job, you need that deep knowledge—the fact that there are seven different dental specialties shows just how massive this field really is.) It's sad, but true: they only acknowledge us as doctors when they're in pain or when their kids are hurting. That's when they finally show up at our clinics, because they don't have the training or the equipment to handle it themselves.
That's all I've got on dentistry vs. medicine!
I agree with my colleague. A doctor is a doctor. We should all stick to our respective specialties, whether it’s teeth, GI, or anything else. Unfortunately, based on what I've seen, plenty of medical professionals look down on our field and underestimate our expertise. (And if you actually want to be good at your job, you need that deep knowledge—the fact that there are seven different dental specialties shows just how massive this field really is.) It's sad, but true: they only acknowledge us as doctors when they're in pain or when their kids are hurting. That's when they finally show up at our clinics, because they don't have the training or the equipment to handle it themselves.
That's all I've got on dentistry vs. medicine!
Medicine vs. Dentistry: Which path is better?
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Look, Lawrence Wells, I’ll give you the answer.
If you're switching from medicine to dentistry, you'd be entering as a second-year student. It all depends on which dental courses the university requires you to retake based on their specific curriculum and schedule, plus whatever medical credits they actually agree to transfer—which really depends on when you make the jump. Either way, you're looking at at least four more years of school, or five under the current system.
If you're switching from medicine to dentistry, you'd be entering as a second-year student. It all depends on which dental courses the university requires you to retake based on their specific curriculum and schedule, plus whatever medical credits they actually agree to transfer—which really depends on when you make the jump. Either way, you're looking at at least four more years of school, or five under the current system.