Welcome to AccessOMFS! At first, I was very hesitant to create this site because, as an OMFS applicant, I didn’t want any content to ever influence my application. Disclaimer: Yes, I am a current dental student (current resident). So please, take everything with a grain of salt. I by no means know, or claim to know, everything

Before you say anything, obviously I am getting incredibly ahead of myself with this post. I have never owned a business, nor am I formally educated in business practices. So, please, do not take this as an attempt to tell you how to open a practice or run a business because that is better left

As many of you D3s know, the PASS application is opening in the next few weeks. In order to make it easier to quickly access program pages for research purposes and application info, a list of up-to-date program web addresses has been compiled. Credit to Sandbern304 for putting the majority of the list together and

Congratulations on starting dental school! I’m sure you are excited and probably somewhat nervous. You have worked hard your entire life to reach this moment. Not only that, but you know what you are here to achieve. You entered dental school with the clear goal of becoming an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. Well, you have

For those applying this cycle, you already know that the ADEA PASS MATCH website and system can be frustrating. Many sections have limited information regarding what information to include and in what depth. To help clarify, and prepare others, a simple illustrated guide is below. How you ultimately fill out the application is up to

For better or for worse, “oral and maxillofacial surgery” has been the namesake of the specialty since 1975. The change from simply, “oral surgery,” occurred because practitioners felt that a name change was necessary to adequately represent the expanded scope of the profession to the public. Fast-forward to today, and there still seems to be

Contributed by J.Y.A. with notes from AccessOMFS Does the dental school someone attends affect their chances of matching into oral and maxillofacial surgery? This is a question many pre-dental students consider when deciding which school to attend, and an important one to consider. As a disclaimer, this article is simply my opinion. It is not