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I do not passionately love saliva, bad breath, or blood, but I can deal with it. If you love these things, you have issues. I will love having the skills to relieve peoples pain and to make their smile look better. It is the reward of helping people and also their monetary payments that will help me deal with bad breath and saliva.This one part I agree with. Many applicants do really believe this and want this, but it's best to say a more believable reason since it's so easy to sound insincere.
But to address your original post, I'd say this: Please believe the other posts that if you don't passionately love teeth, saliva, blood, dealing with people, horrible breath, surgery, and sculpture, you will not be a content dentist. You will probably be able to make a lot, but it simply isn't worth it for you and is not fair to your future patients. It is four years of humiliation as you learn completely alien concepts and mechanics. Before you're good at something you learn something new and it's a constant evolution (ask 5 different profs and get 5 different answers.) You need to want to be (or at least not MIND being) wrist deep in pus and blood and plaster to deal with a 35-year career in dental medicine.
There are SO many fields that you can enter with a sole financial goal. Some do enter dentistry for this reason, but remember that it's much more specific than many other business-ey professions.
Good luck with whatever you choose!


Pretty funny.
). not all dentists make ****load of money and you will started with $200k debt.
And I think most are getting around 200k with a surprisingly large number graduating with over 300k!