Dentists (D.D.S./D.M.D.) evaluate, diagnose, prevent, and/or treat diseases, disorders,
and/or conditions affecting the teeth, gum tissue, tongue, lips, and jaws.
They advise patients on oral health and disease prevention, along with performing
clinical procedures such as: fillings, crowns, implants, extractions, and corrective
surgeries.
Dentists are often the first health care professionals to detect and identify a wide
variety of diseases and can perform trauma surgery, implants, tissue grafts and laser
surgery.
