Episode Details

Top 5 Topics:

- How To Become An Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon Also Doing Full-Body Cosmetic Surgery

- Turf Wars: Who’s Actually Allowed to Do Advanced Surgical Procedures

In Medicine & Dentistry

- Hidden Medical Licensure Nightmares for Cosmetic Surgeons

- A Young Surgeon’s Bold Career Pivot: From Private Practice Dreams to Academia

- The Controversial Future of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (Europe-Style Changes In The Future? Would That Be Beneficial, or Worse?)

Quotes & Wisdom:

“Deciding someone’s scope in dentistry always comes down to the individual human being… Knowing your limitations, what you know you’re capable of doing, the training that you have, being honest with yourself, and then being able to deal with your complications. If you have happy patients and you get good results and good long-term outcomes, I don’t have a problem with it.” – Dr. Krutyansky

“Mentorship early on in your career is also important. You learn so much doing residency and fellowship, but having mentorship, you still learn right afterwards. I still do in cases now, I’m learning all the time.” – Dr. Krutyansky

“Investing into more of your education… I don’t know of any oral surgeon that hasn’t gotten their loans paid back. I don’t think that the financial aspect should be an issue when considering Oral Surgery to specialize in.” – Dr. Krutyansky

“The only way to do it [figure out fellowships or career path] is to explore… You only know what you’re exposed to. So you gotta visit these places and find out.” – Dr. Krutyansky

“Academics is really a long game… I think especially early on, starting your career there, I think it’s a great starting point.” – Dr. Krutyansky

“Life is unpredictable… It’s always good to differentiate your scope and diversify what you do.” – Dr. Krutyansky

Questions:

11:56

“What are your thoughts on that [scope overlap in implants by general dentists, periodontists, etc.] compared to how other specialties complained about facial plastics back in the day?”

19:21

“You mentioned the challenges in getting the licensure to do full body cosmetics in New Jersey… Can you elaborate on that?”

26:02

“Could you ever see oral and maxillofacial surgery in the United States separating much like say Europe is… oral surgery remains just dentistry… Could that ever become a thing you think?”

29:02

“What changed [your mind about going into academics]? What kind of made that switch?”

39:23

“What’s your favorite procedure these days? Anything from full body cosmetics to dentoalveolar to arthroscopy… What’s the procedure you look forward to doing these days?”

42:54

“How many residents do you guys take a year? You’re in the OR sometimes 5 days a week?”

Now available on:

- Dr. Gallagher’s Podcast & YouTube Channel

- Dose of Dental Podcast #227

My watch in this episode = Tag Heuer Aquaracer Calibre 16 Chrono

- 4.2026

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