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A member asked:
What is the difference between dds and dmd ?
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No difference: Dds stands for doctor of dental surgery and dmd stands for doctor of doctor of dental medicine some dental schools award ddm degree and other award dmd.
Answered 12/31/2013
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One letter: Different schools grant different degrees upon their graduates. The dds and dmd degrees are identical and recognized as such by all state licensing boards.
Answered 12/31/2013
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DDS=DMD: They both mean the same thing. Some dental schools grant a D.D.S. (Doctor of Dental Surgery) degree while others prefer the D.M.D. (Doctor of Dental Medicine) degree instead. The training the dentists receive is the same but the name of the degree is different.
Answered 10/6/2014
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None: There is no difference, except that the dentist went to a different dental school. They have the same basic education.
Answered 10/3/2016
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Nothing: One is a doctor of dental surgery and the other is doctor of dental medicine. The training is the same.
Answered 11/1/2012
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None: Different schools established the degree way back in their history. Dds stands for doctor of dental sugery and dmd stands for doctor of dental medicine. At one time, the dds degree meant that the dentist was more practice oriented and the dmd was more academic and research oriented. Now, the degrees are the same.
Answered 6/28/2017
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