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Two new people recently became patients in our practice; one a physician and one a registered nutritionist.
After their first appointment, each patient said to me, in an angry sort of way:
"Do you know what is wrong with dentistry? There is too much of a difference between dentists with some knowing a lot and some knowing very little. And it shouldn't be like that."
I would be the very first dentist to agree with these very knowledgeable patients who are specialists in their own field.
If I want to surgically place implants, I can.
If I want to put braces on a patient, I can.
If I want to do root canals, I can.
If I want to do sleep dentistry, I can.
Any person that holds a DMD degree or a DDS degree is legally able to do any treatment in the mouth.
One of the biggest issues is that the American Dental Association refuses to consider new specialties unlike the American Medical Association which often approves specialty groups in medicine. The last specialty created is dentistry....Please sit down now.....was 50 years ago in Dental Radiology.
Why are there no standards for implant placement surgery?
Why are there no standards for cosmetic dentistry?
Why no standards for bonding?
The real answer is in my previous blog...The American Dental Association is run by old men while the average dentist is 46 years old.
Why doesn't the ADA mandate new curriculum requirements like placing implants while dental students are in school? Or learning how to correctly place direct posterior resin restorations using a rubber dam?
Because the old guys don't care.
