Dentist was job title for an occupational group existing beside the dentists. Dentisten gave it in Germany only until 1952. With law of 31. 3. 1952 was transferred the Dentisten into the dentist conditions.

The training of the Dentisten existed only in strongly practice-oriented, two-year specialized education. In medical area they had nearly no training.

Dentist is used nowadays in the press also as synonym for dentist. Often also also easily humoristic Unterton. The dentists do not hear this designation feel gladly and them as devaluation, since they are exactly taken not Dentisten.

Similar problems with their job title have flight companions (= hostesses).

To the 1970er years were there world-wide reforms of the dental medicine study, with which the training of the dentists (not the Dentisten) was raised to the medical level of the medical student training. In many countries thereafter the Vorklinikum was accomplished after the same program and together with the medical students.

Only 10 years later the medical training of the dental medicine students was then aligned again more strongly to the specific interests of the dental medicine.

In the last years in Germany on the part of the policy and the health insurance companies the suggestion was brought in the play to limit the training of the tooth medical profession a specialized school study (instead of a higher education). Behind it considerations stood to the curbing cost expansion in the health sector and the unexpressed consideration that Germany until 1952 with approx. 50% Dentisten and only 50% dentists zurechgekommen also somehow were.

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Law over the practice of the dentistry; "§8: Distribution of the license to practise medicine nationally recognized Dentisten on

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