I am about to register for my senior year classes, and I was just wondering if it'd be better preparation to take biochemistry or comparative vertebrate anatomy. I've heard that vertebrate anatomy doesn't really help in dental school. Is this true? Would it be more useful to take biochem?
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Biochem or anatomy?
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I would say Biochem just because it's bound to show up in d-school and some schools highly recommend or even require it.
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Have you already taken HUMAN Anatomy?jl1616 said:
Depending on your school, an undergrad biochem course may have almost nothing in common with your D-school biochem class. If I had taken the CHEM 481 class at my university (BYU) I would have slaved for a semester to learn things that were way past the scope of dental school biochem.
HUMAN Anatomy, on the other hand, was probably the most useful class I took in preparation for dental school. Learn all you can about Head and Neck Anatomy because there is so much to learn.
I can't stress enough that HUMAN Anatomy is what I would take if I were you. Sure it might be interesting to see that all vertebrates have epithelium and neural tissue, but that information will be nothing more than superfluous knowledge when it comes to dental (and HUMAN) sciences.
Good luck!
I would put human anatomy or physiology above biochem. Biochem in dental school is more akin to o-chem, just with biological reagents. Not as conceptual as in undergrad.
Tufts requires Biochemistry, if you're interested in that school.
I know UNLV also requires that you take biochem before you matriculate if accepted.
If I were you I would look at the schools that you plan to apply to and see if either is a required course for any of them.
One of the three schools that I am applying to requires Biochem.
One of the three schools that I am applying to requires Biochem.
Take both.
I took Biochem and anatomy last semester and found them to complement each other nicely. At the tissue level anatomy, and the atomic and microscopic level Biochem when it comes to explaining what goes on in organisms which is what the basic sciences will do.
I took Biochem and anatomy last semester and found them to complement each other nicely. At the tissue level anatomy, and the atomic and microscopic level Biochem when it comes to explaining what goes on in organisms which is what the basic sciences will do.
you'll find that more and more schools are adopting a biochem requisite in order to matriculate.
Take both since anatomy and biochem are both recommended...if I'm not mistaken I think anatomy is a basic science course that most predents have completed...usually in the first 1.5 years of undergrad.
If you're stuck, and can only choose one...take biochem
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Take both since anatomy and biochem are both recommended...if I'm not mistaken I think anatomy is a basic science course that most predents have completed...usually in the first 1.5 years of undergrad.
If you're stuck, and can only choose one...take biochem
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I'm going to take anatomy, but I'll suggest you take biochem. Its a really really awesome and interesting class. Best classes I've ever taken, really besides math.
I would say both too. As many have said, many schools require biochem, however very few require anatomy. Taking a comparative anatomy on the other hand will prepare you for dissections and the memorization that goes along with it. As another said physio would be a good class too. That being said, I took all three.
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jl1616 said:
if you will learn about the muscles in the head and neck in hum anatomy, then i think it would help you alot in dent school, if not, from what i've heard from a ucsf student is that it doesn't really help as much. like im currently taking hum anat at sfsu and they skipped over the head and neck muscles due to time constraints. :-(
I'm a biochem major so I might be biased, but it seems to me that A&P would be more useful in dental school.
The good thing about taking anatomy is that you get a taste of what type of learning is required in the dental courses since people say that dental school courses are more about fast paced memorization rather than theory as in math or physics.
