An oral surgeon was convicted on Friday of a murder charge in the death of his girlfriend who overdosed on anesthetic drugs that he administered at his Maryland home.
Jurors heard testimony that James Ryan, 50, set up an intravenous stand to administer the addictive drugs to his 25-year-old girlfriend, Sarah Harris, who was found dead at his Montgomery County home in January 2022.
There are like 9 speciality in dentistry like Oral medicine, oral and Maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, conservative and endodontic, pedodontics, prosthodontics, periodontics, oral pathology and histology and public health dentistry.
And yes endodontist are top tier for your root canal treatment. Though skilled general dentists can do that also.
Oral surgeons on other hand do lots of surgeries like extracting impacted wisdom tooth or canine, aesthetic surgery like rhinoplasty, treat facial fractures, orthognathic surgery and so on.