Are there dramatic physiological differences between teeth/gums and the rest of the body? Or is it just tradition?
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They’re different credentials and specializations.
And a medical doctor isn’t, say, a neurologist when they graduate. Your family doctor refers you to specialists because they have a broad but shallow level of knowledge. Your family doctor couldn’t perform surgery on your ankle or heart or give a prognosis on a rare case of cancer.
A medical doctor knows about teeth in general, but they don’t know about disease in depth nor how to operate on teeth.
And a dentist doesn’t know nearly as much medical knowledge about the body as a M.D.
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