for those currently attending BU

[MrBenny]

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I'm a dental applicant, and recently attended BU for my interview. I was impressed with the facilities and the APEX program. As to the latter, i was curious what current BU students think of it, the pros and cons of the program, and also your general sentiments of BU as a dental school. thanks for any replies.

 

[dmd]

I'm a dental applicant, and recently attended BU for my interview. I was impressed with the facilities and the APEX program. As to the latter, i was curious what current BU students think of it, the pros and cons of the program, and also your general sentiments of BU as a dental school. thanks for any replies.

Hey I am a 3rd year at BU and the APEX program is okay for what its worth but it was more of a break as you really learn all you are going to learn as an assistant in the first month. It depends on the office you go to also, I had a laid back office. Some of my friends worked at 930 comm ave and worked their ass off, they put in 38+ hours a week and I am sure they learned alot--but overall i dont think it helped them all that much (you are not going to dental school to make whitening trays and suction). You really make what you want out of it. I heard some ppl did simple extractions and some even did injections, it just depends what the apex dr is comfortable letting you do, of course both these things are contraindicated and you could never tell the apex office you did such things as you are not qualified at this point.

I am on the clinic floor and even though there alot of checks and balances and alot of b.s. you have to go thru to get procedures done I am glad i chose BU. I look at other schools and they definitley do not have the freedom we do with patients. We call and make are own appts, manage the patinet
financials (i.e. you cannot do procedures w/o making sure they have paid), and are responsible for deciding if we are qualified to do a procedure. Some of my classmates did CLP on their externships and when they came back to BU they told the faculty that had done the procedure during externship and they were allowed to carry out the crown lengthening procedure.

I will tell you straight up BU is not an academic school, you learn the bare minimum to get through the boards and such, but it is an exceptional clinical school based on practical learning. It depends what is important to you, if you want to research dont go here, but if you want to practice clincial dentistry i recommend it. If you have specific q's PM me, but I hope this helped more then it confused you.