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Originally Posted by GraysonPeace
WOW! Very educational . All I know is I had no pain, where I have had discomfort during a regular filling. If what you say is so then what do endodontist do that a dentist does not?
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From what I've heard, a dentist does general and cosmetic stuff. While a endodentist specificially works on root canals, it's his/her speciality. A dentist can basically do everything but most of the time don't have that in depth training, education, or knowledge in a speciality. Like I'd be more comfortable having a dentist just do regular fillings because he has the experience, an endodist is basically the person that is suited to do root canals.
It's kind of how you have a doctor that does general and pediatric stuff and owns the local clinic. Then you have the surgeon who the doctor refers his patients too. Then if the surgeon just does general operations rather than specifically only one "area" of the body, such as brain surgeries, so he would send you to a neurosurgeon.
I also do not mean to insult apex, but a friend of mine who has finished college was considering becoming a dentist, and go to a dental school. Guess what? He was studying business and was told that as long as he maintained the same grades but also took one semester of physics, one semester of chemistry, and two of biology he could easily gain admission. Also dental school lasts 2 years, if I'm not mistaken. That's one of the reasons why I dread going to a dentist.
The doctors that I know on the other hand, whether they were born here in the states or in europe,all went to highly ranked, actually on par or even better than the ivies, colleges in europe where the schools actually concentrated on premed. They then came here and went to the best of the best medical schools, and studied under the best doctors during their residency periods. (I don't know though, maybe I'm just lucky to know such doctors)