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Um, from M.D.s........ I know. And that's not an attack on D.O.s, far from it.
From my understanding of dentists, essentially one school calls it DMD and another calls it DDS... but they're the same. That's all.
In the past M.D. programs were more selective, so there was an idea that M.D.s were more qualified than D.O.s. The programs are not identical. It's not that one school calls it DO and the other MD.
This isn't quite correct. A DMD is someone who was insane enough to do the DDS program AND then did some M.D. work and almost always is now an oral-maxillofacial surgeon.
Those people have a few screws loose to do that much schooling