What's the difference between a dmd and a dds?

Nothing: Training is the same. One stands for doctor of dental surgery dds and the other is doctor of dental medicine dmd.

Used to be...: When it was first given out, by penn and harvard; they were dental programs with a particular emphasis on medicine. The first two years for those dental students were taken along side their md counter parts; they took those first few years of "materia medica". Now there is no difference between the degrees, just the nominal preference of the graduate school. No difference.

Nothing: It's like the difference between a BA and an AB. It's merely semantics.

None: I am not a dentist but as far as i know, the dmd and dds degrees are equivalent. Both are dentists. I believe it is similar to the fact that there are two degrees for doctors, M.D. And D.O.

None: Different schools deliver either a doctor of dental medicine degree or doctor of dental surgery degree. Both are virtually the same. Only the institutions think otherwise.

DDS, DMD: There is no difference. Both are degrees conferred on dentists. Years ago most degrees were dds. Today most are dmd dds means doctor of dental surgery dmd means doctor of dental medicine.

None: There is no difference. Some dental schools award dds (doctor of dental surgery) to graduates. Other schools award dmd (doctor of dental medicine). The education is the same. I have a dds, my partner has a dmd.