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I don't particularly have a point of my own per se here, but it seems like an interesting topic of discussion. Dentists are simply specialists that concentrate on your teeth, similar to how podiatrists concentrate on your feet. So why is it that we hold them at pretty much the same level as GP's? Granted there are dental specialists as well, but still, we see dentist once to twice a year just like we do our GP's. Why aren't our GP's looking over our teeth and then saying, "Oh, you have a cavity developing there. I am going to send you to a dentist." My doctor suspected a hyatial (sp?) hernia, so he sent me to a gastroenterologist (I think I have the right type, but I'm sure you get the point even if not). So any insight as to why we treat a specialist as a general practitioner?