Is there a reason not to apply for the HPSP?

[Bis-GMA111]

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I plan on specializing. Before you say that I shouldn't decide on specializing yet, I've been aiming for dentistry for a long time and I now know what I want to do in dentistry. I know this means I won't have much of a life for next few years and I'm fine with that. If I'm spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and extra 4+ years of my life on education, I'm shooting for the top and am gonna have big goals. No idea how it will turn out, but I'm going to give my all and see what happens. But, no way in hell am I setting my goal to become an associate after I graduate. Goal you set is suppose to be an ideal future you see for yourself.

yeah, i planned on that too, oh well. good luck.

 

[toothdriller2k17]

@I want to go to there you sound like almost every single first year at my school for the first month. seeing that cockiness is pretty amusing. what's even better is seeing the fear in their eyes when they've just been chewed out by a professor who says that their work is subpar. humility hits you hard in dental school. embrace it all, because you'll be eaten alive otherwise.

also, if you're going to be a gunner, at least try to help out your classmates. and do me a favor, the more you tell people you plan on specializing before your first year is even over, let alone even started, the more of a fool you're making yourself seem.

fyi, you're not the only one who has been aiming for dentistry for a long time. and no, you don't know what you want to do because as someone earlier mentioned, you haven't held a hand piece yet and done procedures in their entirety.

 

[I want to go to there]

@I want to go to there you sound like almost every single first year at my school for the first month. seeing that cockiness is pretty amusing. what's even better is seeing the fear in their eyes when they've just been chewed out by a professor who says that their work is subpar. humility hits you hard in dental school. embrace it all, because you'll be eaten alive otherwise.

also, if you're going to be a gunner, at least try to help out your classmates. and do me a favor, the more you tell people you plan on specializing before your first year is even over, let alone even started, the more of a fool you're making yourself seem.

fyi, you're not the only one who has been aiming for dentistry for a long time. and no, you don't know what you want to do because as someone earlier mentioned, you haven't held a hand piece yet and done procedures in their entirety.

Nothing wrong with being confident and having goals. Don't try to put people down of their goals before they even try because you've seen others, and perhaps yourself, fail Few of those people actually do succeed and who knows, maybe I will be one of them. You seem to think that I know nothing about dental school and dentistry and don't know what to expect.

 

[midman19]

Nothing wrong with being confident and having goals. Don't try to put people down of their goals before they even try because you've seen others, and perhaps yourself, fail Few of those people actually do succeed and who knows, maybe I will be one of them. You seem to think that I know nothing about dental school and dentistry and don't know what to expect.

I think everyone is just trying to help you out man and prevent you from making bad decisions that will make your life much more difficult. There is nothing wrong with having goals but there is also nothing wrong with taking advice from those who have gone before you...

 

[I want to go to there]

I think everyone is just trying to help you out man and prevent you from making bad decisions that will make your life much more difficult. There is nothing wrong with having goals but there is also nothing wrong with taking advice from those who have gone before you...

Most, if not all, of them are still in dental school. I'm taking advice from people who have gone before them, people I've personally met who have already graduated and have their own practice. I don't mind their advice, but it's all stuff I already know and have considered. Funny thing is that I didn't even come to this thread for advice... I made one comment about what someone who didn't pursue HPSP can be doing in the first 4 years after graduating and they are all up in my ass about it.

 

[Pre-Dent Jeff]

I met with somebody who enlisted in the Navy to take this route. He went through dental school. Then he continued into Oral Surgery while enlisted in the Navy. He loved it. He said that dentists who were deployed to Baghdad were almost always 3 stories underground in the middle of a base and never saw any combat. He said that overall the military "trusts you more with molars and not mortars." Oral surgeons who were enlisted were a little closer to combat zones to deal with facial trama though. Overall he said it was a great experience for him, but it doesn't fit for everybody. If you are already second guessing you're desire to join the military to pay off your loans, then you already should be seeing that it's not for you.

I personally don't see myself taking that option, but I congratulate those that do.

 

[darknightzzz]

Nothing wrong with being confident and having goals. Don't try to put people down of their goals before they even try because you've seen others, and perhaps yourself, fail Few of those people actually do succeed and who knows, maybe I will be one of them. You seem to think that I know nothing about dental school and dentistry and don't know what to expect.

Most, if not all, of them are still in dental school. I'm taking advice from people who have gone before them, people I've personally met who have already graduated and have their own practice. I don't mind their advice, but it's all stuff I already know and have considered. Funny thing is that I didn't even come to this thread for advice... I made one comment about what someone who didn't pursue HPSP can be doing in the first 4 years after graduating and they are all up in my ass about it.

I think everyone is just trying to help you out man and prevent you from making bad decisions that will make your life much more difficult. There is nothing wrong with having goals but there is also nothing wrong with taking advice from those who have gone before you...

gunners r gonna gun man, i used to be this type of gunners when i thought i had the world in my hand in undergrad university but not anymore thankfully.

let me man be 🙂

 

[toothdriller2k17]

Nothing wrong with being confident and having goals. Don't try to put people down of their goals before they even try because you've seen others, and perhaps yourself, fail Few of those people actually do succeed and who knows, maybe I will be one of them. You seem to think that I know nothing about dental school and dentistry and don't know what to expect.

absolutely not in fact it's good to have that mindset going in. the challenge is just maintaining it throughout.

my point is, you have no metric to even gauge how good your hand skills are, so you really don't know what to expect. all you know is--dental school is hard, right? hard in what sense? you can't tell me, because again, you don't know about clinical dentistry.. unless you're a foreign trained dentist? in which case i apologize.

anyway, there's no point in arguing in circles. good luck in school

 

[toothdriller2k17]

and to what @lanzo said. that's true @I want to go to there. i'm trying to be as real with you as possible. no intention of bashing your abilities or anything. just...wait until your first year is over to see if you feel the same way.