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There are multiple specialties of Surgery and Internal Med by vermin05

I ask you what makes a dentist’s goals different from physicians, heck the first two years of medical school and dental school are so similar that up until recently there were schools were dental and medical students went to the same classes their first two years. The only difference is that dentists stop their general medical schooling after those two years and start specializing.

They do this for historical reasons only, if someone was setting up formal schooling for dentists today as a new field they would be MD/DO. After schooling dentistry would be another speciality for graduates to choose from and orthodontics/oral surgery etc would be fellowships. I don’t think having my dentists be a little more knowledgeable about medicine would be a bad thing seeing as they use anesthesia and prescribe narcotics.