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. What is the difference between a D.D.S. and a D.M.D.? Nothing really these days..individual dental schools give a degree of either Doctor of Dental Surgery or Doctor of Dental Medicine depending on their philosophy or approach to patient care. You may wonder why its not D.D.M. then. The D.M.D. degree schools, being the first dental colleges formed in early America, printed their degrees in Latin where the adjective was placed after the noun: Doctoris Medicinae Dentariae. The Medical College of Georgia, Univ. of Alabama, Univ. of Kentucky, and Harvard University give a D.M.D. degree, for instance, while the Univs. of Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida give D.D.S.'s. 4

. What is the difference between General Dentists, Family Dentists, Orthodontists, Oral Surgeons, Periodontists, Endodontists and all those other kinds of dentists? In a nutshell, it is the scope of practice that the individual dentist practices. Their are eight branches or specialties in dentistry that a dentist may choose to train in and offer services for his or her patients. Dental schools are generally four year colleges attended after basic university degrees are attained. Internships, fellowships, and residencies are available in dentistry just as in medicine and may be one, two, three and even four years in duration. These are formal years of training. A dentist can begin practice and perform most all procedures upon graduating from dental school. Continue Article.......

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Indemnity Plan: A dental plan where a third-party payer provides payment of an amount for specific services, regardless of the actual charges made by the provider. Payment may be made either to enrollees or, by assignment, directly to dentists. Schedule of allowances, table of allowances, or reasonable and customary plans are examples of indemnity plans.

Necessary Treatment: A necessary dental procedure or service as determined by a dentist, to either establish or maintain a patients oral health. Such determinations are based on the professional diagnostic judgment