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Um, from M.D.s........ I know. And that's not an attack on D.O.s, far from it.
 
I just realized I said "great" I meant "greater."

There are differences, yes, but not "great" differences. in DO and MD programs.
 
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.

From my understanding of dentists, essentially one school calls it DMD and another calls it DDS... but they're the same. That's all.
 
LineInTheSand said:
From my understanding of dentists, essentially one school calls it DMD and another calls it DDS... but they're the same. That's all.
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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 :)
 
LineInTheSand said:
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.
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In a broad generalization M.D. schools on average have higher GPA and MCAT standards than D.O. schools; however, there are definitely strong applicants who go the D.O. route as well. It is nearly impossible to tell who is who just by the school they went to. One of the other biases comes from the presence of some newer D.O. schools being for-profit.

So, broad generalizations can be made, but in my opinion it is impossible to apply that to any one individual. I've worked with some brilliant D.O.s and some "interesting" M.D.s and vice versa.

Some of the D.O. mantra of whole patient and some manipulations is bunk, but many D.O.s agree with that too :)
 
kp2001 said:
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 :)
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I found this online, and it seems to go along with what the dentist said. I asked him "You have a DDS (or was it DMD), what's the difference?" His response was that Tufts (or where ever he went) called it one thing and others called it something else.

For the dentist that did my tooth implant, he had a DMD (or was it DDS) and an MD.

What’s the difference between these two degrees? Exactly one letter. Both D.M.D. and D.D.S. indicate that an individual is a doctor of dental medicine. Although there are subtle differences in curriculum within and between the two degrees, the American Dental Association considers them identical. Anyone with a D.D.S. or D.M.D. is qualified to practice general dentistry.

Why Are There DMDs and DDSs?

Now that you know the shocking truth about degrees in dental medicine, you might be asking: Why go to the trouble of causing all this confusion? Harvard is to blame. Before 1867, the D.D.S (doctor of dental surgery) was the only dental degree available. However, Harvard only offers degrees in Latin, so they came up with Dentariae Medicinae Doctor (doctor of dental medicine) when they opened a dental school that same year.
 
Well heck. I went and looked and the ADA website says the same thing.

I'm gonna have to go hit that maxillofacial surgeon that told me that :)
 
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