DDS vs DMD and cost -- help?

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barnesds - 22 Feb 2007 19:34 GMT

I am 52 years of age and a smoker. I smoke non-filter cigarettes. The
area on my lips where I hold my cigarette is rough. I have smoked since
13 years of age - almost 40 years.

I went to a DDS and was told to see a DMD for oral cancer. I cannot
afford a DMD. So for the last three months I have moved my cigarette to
the right side of mouth and the left side of lips are real soft now.
Like no tobacco ever there now.

When I grew up a DDS pulled teeth. I have eight teeth left over the
years being pulled by DDS. I have $1,000 to have the teeth pulled, and
if all DDS guys nowadays are silly - I will just get drunk and use a
vice-grip. Just bad teeth.

Are DDS guys leery anymore to work because DMD guys on their tail?

I am just going to pull my own teeth and save the thousand if I cannot
have a DDS do it.

I am just wondering is a DDS has a job anymore.

thanks

I will pull my own - a fifth of whiskey and a vice-grip

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Mark & Steven Bornfeld - 22 Feb 2007 20:12 GMT

> I am 52 years of age and a smoker. I smoke non-filter cigarettes. The
> area on my lips where I hold my cigarette is rough. I have smoked since
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> I will pull my own - a fifth of whiskey and a vice-grip

DDS and DMD are equivalent degrees. Different schools decide which
degree name to use. They both qualify candidates to apply for licensure
in any state.
You were probably referred to an oral surgeon, which is a specialty
requiring additional training. Oral surgeons may have either degree.
You should have your lip looked at, and biopsied if necessary. Many of
us DDS guys are silly, but cancer isn't. No punchline here--take care
of the lip, worry about the vice grips later.

Steve

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barnesds - 22 Feb 2007 22:38 GMT

>> I am 52 years of age and a smoker. I smoke non-filter cigarettes.
>> The area on my lips where I hold my cigarette is rough. I have
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> Steve

Thanks Doc for the answer - but from my world I want teeth pulled.
Nothing else. You are a Dentist, $1,000 may not seem like a lot of
money, but it took awhile to save it and also pay other bills and the
like. The teeth really did not bother me that much, but they are doing
it now. The front left Canine explodes with Abcess every two or three
weeks now. The back wisdom tooth does the same now and then/

You use the vice-grip to remove these things. And if I had some type of
look-see - you get rid of the teeth that are causing me pain - then look
at a lip where I have smoked for years.

I am going Monday to another and if the teeth will not be pulled - I will
do so myself.

thanks question remains

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Newbie - 23 Feb 2007 18:40 GMT

>I am going Monday to another and if the teeth will not be pulled - I will
>do so myself.

Self performed dentistry is strongly discouraged.

Extracting a tooth is not brute force, it is a careful technic.

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