Over here, we have general dentists, restorative
dentists plus specialists under ONE ROOF.

Many times we have three docs give INDEPENDENT
consultations and opinions to a patient ..... and WoW!
Do they love it!

Joel

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Joel34

    No simple answer here is going to help you.  A prosthodontist who
doesn't choose to limit practice still has presumably gone through a
training program and is board-eligible.  Of course, general dentists are
not likely to refer to a specialist who doesn't limit his/her practice.
 But any dentist who graduates dental school and does general practice
should be able to do fillings.
    The variability in abilities between dentists with a given
qualification is so great that trying to make blanket judgements about
overall competence of specialists vs. generalists is not helpful.
    I would say that you shouldn't have your uncle the oral surgeon who
hasn't done a root canal since dental school 35 years ago take care of
that upper second molar that needs endo though.

Steve