the dentist your primary care dental provider a dentist has many responsibilities including
the diagnosis treatment care and management of your overall oral health
but there are so many different types of treatments or not fillings horizontal care
root canal treatments crowns and bridges are just some of the services that dentists provide
among several others but what are the different facilities and how do dental students think about
them hi guys it's me david from romaniac and today i'm making my t-list about dental specialities
i will not go into much detail because i think mainly the people that are watching
are people who may consider studying or think about um studying in the future of
course everyone has his own opinion but this is how i think about it right now in my fourth
year of studies in general i think it's a good thing that we have specialists for everything so
in the end we can reach a high level of every type of treatment the first speciality in dentistry
that i'm talking about is pediatric dentistry paediatric dentistry is about treating children
um it is a specialty that is a lot of fun i think it can be very exhausting if kids have
some fears it's very important because their emotions towards going to the dentist are late
so the most people i met while working in the dental cabinet that had fears
had them cause of bad treatments in the childhood so i think it's a nice specialty it's not for me
i like treating children but i could not imagine doing it the whole day so that's why for me that's
in the middle i give it a b and yeah moving on to the next one it's periodontal dentistry
periodontal dentistry is about the diseases and pathologies in the supportive tissue gum diseases
about the bone that is supporting the teeth this one in general i think is very specific
again i couldn't imagine doing it a lot i also yeah assisted some time again to something i would
give it a c because i could not imagine doing that full time or just specialize on it that's
why i give it a c so let's move on to endodontics endodontics and i just have to tell you guys i
was working for the last four years in a dental cabinet always in my vacation like this was my
only job in the last years and every time that we prepared the room with those endodontic needles
and all the stuff that you need for it i could i just hate it i don't like doing it at all and
by next year we will have the subject in universe maybe it will change i will change my mind after
having some treatments but right now i cannot imagine doing it and i like more the creative
side of dentistry and cannot imagine just doing endo dental endodontical treatments the whole day
so for me that's a d i don't like it i don't know why yeah that's how i think right now
about it the next one is orthodontics it's for me a completely different area of dentistry
again a lot of work with children it's a very nice job i think it's good paid and orthodontics
yeah you can help some people with their stigmas secondly it's very important for the right
occlusion which is oftentimes underestimated so it takes a lot of knowledge to become a
good orthodontist i think it's a nice speciality i would put it into b the next one is oral pathology
oral pathology like the name says already it's about the oral diseases this one i never enjoyed
in medical school going through the diseases and pathologies in general so i will not enjoy
even go more into detail in pathologies inside the oral cavity that's why for me it's traded d
and that's it prosthodontics so prosthodontics is about maintaining the function of the oral
cavity so it's about treating the patients with bridges with crowns also a lot about aesthetics
this is a thing that is a lot practiced in romania and like a lot of people know uh in turkey so
the prosthodontists here are more focused towards this aesthetical side and then concentrating on
also the occlusal outcome of the treatments and i think this is something that is very important
i could imagine that again not full time so that's nothing for me prosthodontics for me
yeah so um i would love to do it but more as a general dentist so moving on to the next
speciality it's dental radiology we had it starting from fourth year in romania and we are
finally talking about it we learn how to read it you see so many cases while studying and always of
course also the x-ray and you're always confused like how do doctors know yeah what's going on in
this wild picture in the end yeah you of course you can you know uh what tooth is which one but
in the end if a lot of teeth have been extracted or are missing you are confused and yeah it helps
a lot it's a nice subject i enjoyed every single lab lesson that we had practicing it it's a nice
skill i think that's something you can do next to a general dentist just learning how to read
even better an x-ray yeah and that's something you can just do privately but i would not be
wanting to do it full time so for me that's a b then moving on to the next one it's the oral
and maxillofacial surgeon very very nice specialty i would go for this one
right now with my knowledge that i have till now like i never know it
can change in the next years or while even practicing it it can be like yeah i don't
feel so comfortable so you move on specialize in a different direction but for now that's where i
start being interested yeah like being in the course room suddenly boom like a surgical case
comes up and i'm like oh yeah i want to know more about it that's something i can definitely
imagine i can directly put it into super something why i wouldn't do the maxillofacial surgeon is
that this is quite a difficult job a lot of pressure when you have for example the
facial trauma after accidents and stuff my biggest respect for the people who have the knowledge and
the skill to work in this department for me i think it would be too much and secondly it's
not the kind of job i want to do that i imagine doing after the studies i want to be and now we i
directly move into the next topic i can imagine being just a general dentist and being an oral
surgeon like implantology yeah doing like basic surgeries so this is also for me in the super rank
because um yeah i think what i like about being just a general dentist you know you're patient you
build a relation to them with a lot of specialties you don't get to know your patient that much like
you you just got them sent over by a colleague or you're working in a clinic and that's what i
like about being a general dentist and specialize on oral surgery so just um doing the layer simple
in the end they are also not simple but doing like the basic surgeries doing some implants
that's what i right now can imagine doing and that's my most favorite topic in university
right now yeah so that's my tier list if you have a look some stuff i can imagine doing some stuff
i can definitely not imagine and like yeah so this was my t-list about dental specialties
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