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Periodontists

Experience, Skills, and Personality Traits

Periodontists gain experience while in dental school through intensive lab work. After graduating from an accredited dental school, they gain further experience in a three-year graduate training program for periodontology.

Periodontists must be detail oriented, methodical, and compassionate as many patients will have fears of procedures such as gum grafts, scalings, and dental implants. These specialists must have the focus to spend hours performing procedures in the confines of a patient's mouth. Periodontists who enter private practice will need entreprenurial skills.

Periodontists, like other dentists, must have excellent hand-eye coordination and the ability to do finely detailed work.

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