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Hi all,
Often you hear of how dentists have a stable lifestyle with enjoyable quality of life. It would seem to me that this really depends on having good business sense and establishing your own practice rather than saying "Here's my D.D.S. now where is my stable lifestyle?" Is there more of an opportunity in medicine if you simply want to be a physician and not have to deal with the complexities of running a practice? As a physician it seems I can go into residency and come out of it with a reasonable expectation of the demand for my specialty and what my salary will be whereas in dentistry it depends on many factors such as the location of your office, your knack at building a patient base, saturation, and other factors that I don't know about. I guess what I'm asking is what paths are there in dentistry besides opening your own practice / being an associate at someone else's practice for 100k a year?
🙂 Thanks 🙂
Often you hear of how dentists have a stable lifestyle with enjoyable quality of life. It would seem to me that this really depends on having good business sense and establishing your own practice rather than saying "Here's my D.D.S. now where is my stable lifestyle?" Is there more of an opportunity in medicine if you simply want to be a physician and not have to deal with the complexities of running a practice? As a physician it seems I can go into residency and come out of it with a reasonable expectation of the demand for my specialty and what my salary will be whereas in dentistry it depends on many factors such as the location of your office, your knack at building a patient base, saturation, and other factors that I don't know about. I guess what I'm asking is what paths are there in dentistry besides opening your own practice / being an associate at someone else's practice for 100k a year?
🙂 Thanks 🙂