Specialist dentist
The specialist dentist is an area designation for a dentist that is obtained after obtaining a license to practice medicine and successfully completing a three to four year postgraduate course.
The required performance and qualification certificates are regulated in Germany by the further training regulations of the individual state dental associations on the basis of the model further training regulations of the German Dental Association .
Types of specialist dentists
- Orthodontics (since 1935)
- Oral surgery (since 1975)
- Public Health Service (Since 1975)
- Periodontology (since 1983, only within the scope of the State Dental Association Westphalia-Lippe )
- General dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine (since 2008, only within the scope of the Brandenburg State Dental Association ).
Dentists in the German Democratic Republic had the professional title of stomatologists . The study of stomatology has been followed by further training to become a specialist dentist for general stomatology at times since 1961 . In addition, there was the Specialist in Kinderstomatologie , the Specialist in orthopedic stomatology , the Specialist in Social Hygiene and Dentistry surgery . After reunification , these titles were abolished, but can be continued.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Model further training regulations of the German Dental Association . accessed on October 1, 2014
- ^ HJ Staehle: The history of specialist dentists in Germany , Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag , Deutsche Zahnärztliche Zeitschrift, 2010; 65 (4). P. 208. Retrieved April 15, 2015.