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Is there any additional dental school that is planned to open?
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Some of the proposed schools that are planning to open..... but proposed does not mean "for sure."
 
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I think the only one that is officially opening at this point is the Texas tech school.

The list provided is outdated is it not? because some of the planned schools are already opened. At this point i don't think any schools other than the Texas Tech ones are in consideration.

Also, it is just my personal opinion that dentistry will never go the route of pharmacy. Dentistry is a surgical field, and providers can be classified by the quality of the services provided, as opposed to Pharmacy where for the most part the outcome is always the same. Because of this difference i feel as if the income for the top earners in dentistry will stay relatively consistent, whereas the income for people who practice lower-level dentistry may see a decline in the future.

Obviously i am not an economist, but i feel like for the most part, those who are selective in taking patients and can provide high quality care will be successful even with an increase in providers.
 
Most of those have already opened. About 30 years ago, 7 dental schools closed down (including Washington University which was one of the first dental schools in the country and had graduated about 125 classes), so half of that list is just replenishing what was lost. Ebbs and flows I guess.
 
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Scumbag_Steve said:
Keep in mind Bluefield College in SW Virginia was planned, and they couldn't procure the money to get it done. It will be interesting to see how many of these proposed planes will actually come to fruition
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I'm sure this could be said for several. I know marshfield clinic in Wisconsin also abandoned their plans for a dental school. Who's gonna google all of these schools and give us an update ? Lol
 
cooliyak said:
Most of those have already opened. About 30 years ago, 7 dental schools closed down (including Washington University which was one of the first dental schools in the country and had graduated about 125 classes), so half of that list is just replenishing what was lost. Ebbs and flows I guess.
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Kinda
Maybe the number of schools are about the same but so many schools have increased their class size.
UDM doubled their class size just a few years ago.
 
Unlike pharmacy running a dental school costs a **** ton of money. You could hire a professor and rent a space as big as a grocery store and bam you have a pharmacy school going. For proof? Look at Touros pharmacy school in NY. Many established dental schools operate in the red due to bad administration. Opening a dental school is no cake walk.

Like the above poster said, the increase in class size is probably more contributing to over saturation than new dental schools opening.
 
distressstudent said:
Kinda
Maybe the number of schools are about the same but so many schools have increased their class size.
UDM doubled their class size just a few years ago.
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Yeah I know. Most schools are increasing their class size. I wasn't trying to be too literal with that comment, just saying that schools open and schools close and that's just the circle of life.
 
Scumbag_Steve said:
Keep in mind Bluefield College in SW Virginia was planned, and they couldn't procure the money to get it done. It will be interesting to see how many of these proposed planes will actually come to fruition
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Same story for the University of Arkansas. They put a ton of money renovating the hygiene school clinic and putting in dental operatories and surgical suites to add a GPR program a few years ago. Last time I visited (alumn) in 2013, the projected opening was for 2017. However, I think funding is the largest issue and will continue to be an issue.
 
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Some of the proposed schools that are planning to open..... but proposed does not mean "for sure."
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Screwtape said:
Who's gonna google all of these schools and give us an update ? Lol
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Because I have some free time to procrastinate at my job:

Midwestern University (Arizona) - Opened
Western University of Health Sciences - Opened
East Carolina University - Opened
Midwestern University (Illinois) - Opened
University of Southern Nevada College of Dental Medicine - Opened as Roseman University of Health Sciences College of Dental Medicine
LECOM (Bradenton) - Opened
A.T. Still University (Kirksville, MO) - Opened
University of New England - Opened
LECOM (Erie) - Never materialized
Marshfield Clinic - Lack of funding
University of New Mexico - Silence/no news of opening
University of Utah - Opened and graduating its first class this year
Florida A&M - Still looking for funding
East Tennessee State University - No movement
University of Arkansas - State considering feasibility
Texas Tech University - Plans to open in 2020 (thanks to a $25 million gift they received)
A.T. Still University (San Diego) - In consideration but not yet approved
Edward Via Osteopathic School of Medicine - Probably realized they were in over their heads because no word on any progress
 
When should we start to worry about dental field becoming oversaturated, or has it already begun?
 
I was at Western U today. They said the DMD program started in 1999. It's not new...
 
I-hate-alginate said:
They would never intentionally do that. He either misheard it or they mistakenly said 1999 instead of 2009. They know he did all the research before coming to the campus so they know to not lie.
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Or he went to that campus to explore and learn a few things....one being that the program started in 1999.
How could someone mistakenly say 1999 instead of 2009 and not even correct it?
 
Master Yoda said:
Or he went to that campus to explore and learn a few things....one being that the program started in 1999.
How could someone mistakenly say 1999 instead of 2009 and not even correct it?
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Their recruiters are some of the worst I've seen. They had no clue what they were talking about when I talked to them. It honestly doesn't surprise me.
 
They told me that they had paid dental assistants for every student once you enter clinic. Definitely not the case. The rep was just extremely uninformed so I think he started making stuff up.
 
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There is not a dentist shortage in this country. There is a shortage of dentists who are willing to work in places that need dentists.

More expensive private schools is absolutely the wrong thing to do and will not solve this problem... generating graduates with massive debt loads over their heads (a minority of whom will start practicing questionably in order to deal with their debt, and a large amount of whom will be forced to take a corporate chain job fresh out of school) is not good for the field.
 
UCF has been planning to open a dental school for a while now since UF is the only public school in Florida
 
Interesting to see that Touro is not on that list but is already running their program in NYMC
 
workofshart said:
UCF has been planning to open a dental school for a while now since UF is the only public school in Florida
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Any word of this? I was looking into it a while back and remember reading about this


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distressstudent said:
Kinda
Maybe the number of schools are about the same but so many schools have increased their class size.
UDM doubled their class size just a few years ago.
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I know that somebody necroed this thread, but it's worth noting (because everybody in every job industry panics about the job market) that in those 30 years since the initial closings, the US population has also gone from 242 million -> 326 million.

So having a few more schools and a larger average class size is still not an apples to apples comparison.
 
A dental school is opening in my hometown (El Paso). Too bad it wont be open till 2020/2021.
 
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