Not Why but WHEN

[NewDent02]

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WHEN did you find out that you wanted to become a dentist?

 

[FanOfCostco]

WHEN did you find out that you wanted to become a dentist?

Few days ago.

 

[Stanelz]

too late

 

[MLC45]

WHEN did you find out that you wanted to become a dentist?

Was this an interview question or do you really want to know when people decided to go into dentistry?

 

[dmd.22]

10th grade

 

[2TH MVR]

Premed back in undergrad. Watched too many M.A.S.H episodes and decided to be a dentist. True story.

 

[DentalNucleicAcid]

Premed back in undergrad. Watched too many M.A.S.H episodes and decided to be a dentist. True story.

did you want to be an orthodontist before dental school or did you decide during school and what was the motivation behind your decision

 

[2TH MVR]

did you want to be an orthodontist before dental school or did you decide during school and what was the motivation behind your decision

I had every intention to be a general dentist. Then 2 years in .... I started to envy what the ortho residents and Ortho attendings were doing.

Motivation: I can tell you it had nothing to do with money. I just felt that ortho was more interesting than general dentistry. Picking shades, crown preps, cleaning teeth, composite restorations, etc etc just seemed so mundane to me. It's not so much the mechanics of straightening teeth. It's the process of understanding how children grow and predicting the appropriate treatment direction based on that's child pattern. It's about how faces are put together. It's about working with an adult's current malocclusion and improving it.

The biggest reason? I enjoy bending wire. I jest somewhat.

 

[DentalNucleicAcid]

I had every intention to be a general dentist. Then 2 years in .... I started to envy what the ortho residents and Ortho attendings were doing.

Motivation: I can tell you it had nothing to do with money. I just felt that ortho was more interesting than general dentistry. Picking shades, crown preps, cleaning teeth, composite restorations, etc etc just seemed so mundane to me. It's not so much the mechanics of straightening teeth. It's the process of understanding how children grow and predicting the appropriate treatment direction based on that's child pattern. It's about how faces are put together. It's about working with an adult's current malocclusion and improving it.

The biggest reason? I enjoy bending wire. I jest somewhat.

Thanks so much for the insight 🙂 I'll keep these things in mind. Trying to get an idea of what I might want to do in the future, but GP is the goal!