Paying for expensive dental residency

[teethsmile]

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Need your help guys! How did you pay for expensive dental residency program?

 

[PerioDont]

easiest way is to avoid going to an expensive dental residency

 

[PerioDont]

many residents I have seen at those programs are on GI bill though.

I assume you can get loans as well just like dental school

 

[SirBrotherJam]

You make it sound like we're not good enough/competitive for the other programs...

 

[PerioDont]

You make it sound like we're not good enough/competitive for the other programs...

definitely not what I meant!

I mean that going to an expensive residency program would be more worth going to if someone else was footing the bill.

Otherwise I would argue the 110k+/yr tuition at USC perio is a questionable decision most of the time.

 

[SirBrotherJam]

definitely not what I meant!

I mean that going to an expensive residency program would be more worth going to if someone else was footing the bill.

Otherwise I would argue the 110k+/yr tuition at USC perio is a questionable decision most of the time.

I understand what you meant and in part was giving you a hard time. Fun fact, the GI bill doesn't typically flip the bill for most private schools due to the costs as it does for public. There is a set amount they will pay ~ 25K/year, but changes as time goes on. Some schools have yellow ribbon programs to offset. So those really expensive school you are referring to probably have the ex-military members paying too.

 

[PerioDont]

I understand what you meant and in part was giving you a hard time. Fun fact, the GI bill doesn't typically flip the bill for most private schools due to the costs as it does for public. There is a set amount they will pay ~ 25K/year, but changes as time goes on. Some schools have yellow ribbon programs to offset. So those really expensive school you are referring to probably have the ex-military members paying too.

I was actually wondering that as the the tuition differences are so vast.

Educational cost of dentistry is just so absurd

 

[teethsmile]

You make it sound like we're not good enough/competitive for the other programs...

This is not what the question is asking :/

 

[allDAT]

Most would take another student loan. If you practiced for a while and have some money you may be able to pay cash but that’s probably not the norm.

 

[New_Vegas]

The fact that extremely expensive dental residency programs exist is yet another reason to avoid dentistry. I will encourage my kids to go into the medical field if they want to pursue a career in healthcare.

If you are passionate about a specialty in dentistry, you may choose to go to one of those extremely expensive residencies if you aren't competitive enough for cheap ones. However, the expensive ones will leave you in a state of relative poverty for much of your working career. Or most of your working career if you choose to not pay them off as quickly as possible.