There is a medical specialty for every part of the body. Most of them have to go to medical school - except dentists, they go to dental school. Is it historical? What are the details of separation between these two fields?
Answer:
It is mainly historical. Teeth were not as high of a priority as other parts of the body so they were often times just pulled.. by a barber. It has only been the past fifty years or so that we have had the technology to do so much with our teeth.
These days there exists a little bit of overlap between the two professions:Almost half of the oral surgery post-graduate programs in the United States right now are 6-year dual-degree programs. A dentist training to become an oral surgeon in one of these dual-degree programs will attend the 3rd and 4th years of medical school, and when they finish the OMFS program, they end up with two doctorates-- a DDS and an MD.Those guys are true brainiacs. :-o
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