Dental Hygiene to Dentistry? CANADA

[Jackie Moon]

Hey everyone I was wondering whether there is an option for dental hygienists to become dentists in Canada and specifically Ontario. If you complete a dental hygiene program at George Brown College for example can you go to dental school after? Does anybody know how it works? Thanks! )

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[711769]

Hey everyone I was wondering whether there is an option for dental hygienists to become dentists in Canada and specifically Ontario. If you complete a dental hygiene program at George Brown College for example can you go to dental school after? Does anybody know how it works? Thanks! )

You have to write the DAT and be competitive like everyone else. Unfortunately there's no way around that

 

[Jackie Moon]

@Zen0321 so you would have to apply just like a regular undergraduate student? Do you know if your courses from dental hygiene schools would meet the pre-reqs?

 

[TherealnorthOMFS]

@Zen0321 so you would have to apply just like a regular undergraduate student? Do you know if your courses from dental hygiene schools would meet the pre-reqs?

1, You gotta see if the chem/bio/biochem and rest of pre-reqs (which are listed on the admissions web pages of western and uoft) are offered at george brown. 2, i would contact western/UofT and see if they even accept those courses from george brown seeing that its a college. This is just my guess and may not necessarily be true. I'm mostly familiar with the traditional route here (minimum 3 year of undergrad for u of t and bachelors for western), so again, you wanna call the admissions offices and hear what they gotta say.