oral and maxilofacial surgeon

[ekkyduide]

how would you go about training to become an oral and maxilofacial surgeon after you have completed a dental degree at either UoM or latrobe?

[Russ]

Do a medical degree

[ekkyduide]

it says you need to do a dental degree than do training after that? and in that training you get a medical degree

[Russ]

AFAIK, to do the training to become an OMFS you need to have both a dental and medical degree, which means you need to do both those degrees at university.

Not completely sure on how the OMFS training works, I'll have a quick google

[ekkyduide]

ok thanks russ

[pi]

Good luck with it btw, it's an extremely hard profession to join. From memory, I think there are like ~200 in Australia and NZ put together.

[Romperait]

Russ is correct, you need to complete both dentistry and medicine at university for OMS, with one of the two being done during training.

[anonymous1]

does that mean you do like 5/4 years med followed by 4/5 years dent followed by i'm guessing a 3 year course that would make you a oral and maxilofacial surgeon + internships and what not?

[Russ]

Based on my reading earlier you need full registration as a dentist and a doctor (with a year in general surgery), which means at least 10 years afaik. Then you do the 4 year OMFS training program and finish that to get your college registration and license to practice.

So, erm, 14 years minimum. Probably closer to 20 if you need to work and whatnot in the middle of that.

[BoredSatan]

These guys are the top top of us dentists (im saying dentists only cause i know you med kids highly regard other areas )

But the time taken to get there is just too much for me..

[Surgeon]

I wonder what the pay would be like for Oral & Maxillofacial surgeons... Surely 500k+ considering how long the training is?

[kenhung123]

Well, OMS do a lot of surgical extractions. It costs about 2k to remove 4 wisdom teeth. The procedure takes about 30 minutes. So, in short, quite a damn lot.

[Tomw2]

There are also integrated lateral-entry programs, such as that offered at Adelaide and Otago NZ. Strictly speaking you are still starting as a maxfacs registrar after gaining registration in both medicine and dentistry - however you do house surgeon work while undertaking a shortened medical/dental degree depending on first qualification.

[nisha]

you need to have both a dental and medical degree

WOW. And I thought dent was hard to get into.

Man, good luck dude.

[alexa94]

Yeah, basically have to do dent, then med, as well as the specialty itself and practising in between. The fastest pathway, provided you pass everything and are accepted in your first go (which believe me, is much more difficult than it seems), is 17 years from high school. Pretty much working your ass off for 17 years, you have to be pretty damn motivated...