Facial Hair in Dentistry

[TexDDS]

Every dentist, dental student, and pre-dent I know is clean shaven. Is there an unspoken rule against facial hair in dentistry?

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[pre-dentalguy]

Every dentist, dental student, and pre-dent I know is clean shaven. Is there an unspoken rule against facial hair in dentistry?

The professional look is a clean shave, however, there are some that rock a goat T!

Marion

 

[Lidopaine82]

i suppose its supposed to be clean shaven or neatly trimmed, but i don't care, i only shave about twice a week. a lot of people i know are the same way.

 

[UJ007]

I've seen dentists with beards and various combinations of facial hair. As long as you don't look like a bum I don't think there should be any problems. Plus you wear a mask, so its like a hair net for your face.

 

[pre-dentalguy]

I've seen dentists with beards and various combinations of facial hair. As long as you don't look like a bum I don't think there should be any problems. Plus you wear a mask, so its like a hair net for your face.

That's true too!!

Marion

 

[SirShagaLot]

i suppose its supposed to be clean shaven or neatly trimmed, but i don't care, i only shave about twice a week. a lot of people i know are the same way.

yeah, i can really only shave twice a week...anymore than that and my neck goes haywire....if I shaved with a blade everyday my neck would look like raw hamburger

 

[lifeisgood]

There are many guys (and even a couple gals) at my school that have facial hair in one way or another. For the inteview, go clean shaven. After that, as long as you don't look like the guys from ZZtop, your cool.

 

[t man]

I hope not... I grow my beard every winter. I remember my interviewers having beards, actually and they were dentists probably. Billy Gibbons rocks.

 

[t man]

it isn't a written rule to go clean shaven to the interview. It is just one of those things to make yourself look more professional. If you have a beard that is extremely well groomed and doesn't have holes in it that look like Tiger Woods made a divot in, then you should be fine. Two of the favorite profs here have beards, so it isn't frowned upon at the school.

nice.

 

[pacbum]

richard kimbel in "the fugitive" had a beard. if he can do it, i can do it.

 

[Turnerjo13]

it isn't a written rule to go clean shaven to the interview. It is just one of those things to make yourself look more professional. If you have a beard that is extremely well groomed and doesn't have holes in it that look like Tiger Woods made a divot in, then you should be fine. Two of the favorite profs here have beards, so it isn't frowned upon at the school.

If you can pull it off it might be beneficial to have facial hair during an interview. It will make you look older and more mature which is a good thing. It will help bring you away from the young, inexperienced, undergrad appearance. If you have glasses you should wear those too.

 

[1992Corolla]

i sported a mustache on my interview

 

[Resonance]

i sported a mustache on my interview

The Dean of Admissions at U of Minn has a wicked awesome beard

 

[lifeisgood]

i sported a mustache on my interview

Did you show them your huge balls while you were there too?

 

[hotrod0917]

wow. This is the kinda thing they don't teach you in med school😀

 

[Chrono1984]

Hell yes to facial hair.

 

[pmantz]

I shave on average once a month, I will shave for interviews/important events. I don't shave because I am lazy, as long as I keep my hair short I don't look crazy. But towards the end of the semester I never have time for a haircut and rarely shave, so I start to look like a bum.

 

[pacbum]

it's all about the handlebar mustache

 

[Blando]

my only acceptance i sported a full bear to the interview 🙂 my other two previous interviews i went clean shaven and got waitlisted lol

 

[Denticized]

ADA has declared any facial hair an abomination against the field of dentistry. Legend has it that Abe Lincoln also aspired to become a dentist but wasn't willing to let the beard go.

 

[1992Corolla]

Did you show them your huge balls while you were there too?

Naw, the bulge was sufficient, they just knew I had em.

 

[xdianaax]

I'm glad girls don't have to worry about this. We have to worry about enough...lol

 

[aggie-master]

I've never gone more than 4 days without shaving as an adult, but I'll probably sport a lot of 3 and 4 day beards during exam weeks while in dental school.

 

[FRANK WHITE]

Since the original poster is asking useless questions maybe I should too:

1.Whats the most popular car that dentists like to buy?

2. Do dentists shave their pubic hair?

3. I heard most dentists have hot wives, is this true?

4. I heard dental school is easy if you screw all the women professors?. Is this true? Which schools have the hottest ones? What are some good pick up lines? thanks

5. I heard from a guy that knows a friend whose cousins uncle wifes dad was on the admission commitee. And he said if you get over a 28 on the DAT, the school automatically adds .8 onto your overall GPA?

6. Is blogging on a predental formum such as SDN count as extracirricular activites???

OKay as you can see this post was in a SACRASTIC tone? So all of you pre-dental rats out there stop wasting time on this bull**** and put it into some studying time. Because that will get you into dental school, NOT now the answers from memorizeing the posts on these stupid forums.👎

 

[alphaDDS]

4. I heard dental school is easy if you screw all the women professors?. Is this true? Which schools have the hottest ones? What are some good pick up lines? thanks

4. Yes, University of Your Mom School of Dentistry, any one in which one makes use of the word "oral"

Fastest ban ever.

 

[armorshell]

That's right, it's a windmill.

 

[lionelhutz]

Since the original poster is asking useless questions maybe I should too:

1.Whats the most popular car that dentists like to buy?

2. Do dentists shave their pubic hair?

3. I heard most dentists have hot wives, is this true?

4. I heard dental school is easy if you screw all the women professors?. Is this true? Which schools have the hottest ones? What are some good pick up lines? thanks

5. I heard from a guy that knows a friend whose cousins uncle wifes dad was on the admission commitee. And he said if you get over a 28 on the DAT, the school automatically adds .8 onto your overall GPA?

6. Is blogging on a predental formum such as SDN count as extracirricular activites???

OKay as you can see this post was in a SACRASTIC tone? So all of you pre-dental rats out there stop wasting time on this bull**** and put it into some studying time. Because that will get you into dental school, NOT now the answers from memorizeing the posts on these stupid forums.👎

lawlz!!11

 

[1992Corolla]

OKay as you can see this post was in a SACRASTIC tone? So all of you pre-dental rats out there stop wasting time on this bull**** and put it into some studying time. Because that will get you into dental school, NOT now the answers from memorizeing the posts on these stupid forums.👎

Funny how most of us can stay on here, even in D school and manage a 3.0 or better + extracurriculars. BITTER!!!😀

FRANKWHITE_2 I await your response.

 

[DrReo]

Will anyone be supporting the caveman beard?

 

[Dental Monst3r]

This is, in my opinion, what ALL dentists should look like. 😉

 

[bigstix808]

I'm glad girls don't have to worry about this. We have to worry about enough...lol

yea, i recall a thread a while back concerning the dilema "to where a thong, or not -- that is the question"

oh the humanity!!😀

 

[eternalxdemon]

yea, i recall a thread a while back concerning the dilema "to where a thong, or not -- that is the question"

oh the humanity!!😀

i remember that thread...

 

[PWNISHER]

Funny how the opening remark is "Every Dentist I know is clean shaven" I am the opposite, every practice I have visited this past year every Dentist here in SoCal has some sort of facial hair, the younger ones seem to trend towards the soulpatch while older the dentist the larger the goatee or mustache.

 

[whateveryoulike]

i think its a comfort thing. you ever wear a face mask with facial hair? i did once, it itched like crazy and was extremely uncomfortable. i think that might be part of the reason. 😛

 

[armorshell]

This month Pacific is celebrating Moustache March. Even some of the faculty are getting in on it.

 

[murff05]

My dad (a dentist) has had his mustache since undergrad..... he has never gotten rid of it! It would be too weird now to see him without it...

 

[Maygyver]

My dentist has a beard too, but he keeps it well trimmed.

 

[haisha ni narou]

Every dentist, dental student, and pre-dent I know is clean shaven. Is there an unspoken rule against facial hair in dentistry?

This month is March Mustache Madness at MWU. It was kind of a last ditch effort I think for some extra laughs at our scraggly Whisky Tango presentations. It's not a formal thing but a thing non the less. That's how we party at MWU.

 

[peerless218]

haha you guys have a March Mustache at Midwestern? That's hillarious!!