You might ask the same question as the other, when you first hear about this degree; what is D.M.D stand for? What degree is that? How is the story behind the degree? Where is the university which first using this D.M.D degree as the awarded degree for its graduated students? Well this article may help you to find the answer and may erase your curiosity.
Richard Barker, an eHow Contributor said D.M.D. Degree is the degree which is awarded to those who graduate from some school of Dentistry around several countries including the United State. The word of DMD it self is from Latin which is DMD stand for Dentariae Medicinae Doctor which we know this as Doctorate of Dental Medicine in English.
Besides D.M.D there also the other name of this degree, it is called as D.D.S. Do not shock about it how come one degree has the different name. Well let me tell you the story first. It is said that the university who first award this degree name is the Harvard school of Dental Medicine. They preferred to award this degree as DMD degree instead of D.D.S. Harvard name its degree using the Latin Original Words.
Before you are going to ask about what is D.D.S. this article will help you to find the answer about it. D.D.S. is stand for Doctorate of Dental Surgery. As per the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the training of the recipient of the both DMD degree and D.D.S. degree is Equivalent which means that both of them are the same level what makes different is the name. Even though this may confuse some people who perceives a high level of expertise amongst the recipients of one degree over the other.
Well to make it more understandable, the practice of these two Dentistry; D.M.D. degree and the D.D.S. degree recipients, if they are already licensed properly then they are capable of practicing. As we know both of them are working as the same field which we know it as Dentists so it will be the same.
For the further information, different countries may have the different name of the dental degree as well.