Physics in Dental School?

[Simply_Unique]

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Hi! I was just wondering if you dental school students actually get any practical use of physics in dental school. A friend of mine currently in dental school says that you don't. I hate physics but I did manage to pull an A in physics 1 and I'm currently in physics 2. I just want to know if I can just forget about this horrible subject. lol

 

[gryffindor]

Only if you go into ortho. Then words like moment, vector, torque, mass, etc. will come back to haunt you. But almost nothing during dental school itself.

 

[Regmata]

Maybe a bit in biomaterials too...not really though

 

[pmantz]

Maybe a bit in biomaterials too...not really though

At the same rate there is Pchem in biomaterial i.e. coefficient of thermal expansion. You just don't have to derive anything, or calculate anything, even understand anything for that matter.

 

[Dutchboy]

Hi! I was just wondering if you dental school students actually get any practical use of physics in dental school. A friend of mine currently in dental school says that you don't. I hate physics but I did manage to pull an A in physics 1 and I'm currently in physics 2. I just want to know if I can just forget about this horrible subject. lol

As soon as you finish with physics I recommend that you forget as much as you can, you will never see it again.

 

[Sam1980DDS]

You will never ever see physics again
this is just to wreck your brain
and wid out students
just finish your physics, then through those books away for good
🙂

 

[tinker bell]

You can safely sell your physics book and use the money to buy DAT book

 

[Simply_Unique]

whew...thank goodness! I can't take much more of this stuff! I'd like to know why it is a prereq if I really won't see it again in dental school...it's not like i'm gonna use the equations in a normal day. LOL Thanks guys...now I just gotta make sure that I pass this class!

 

[Wayne Coronado]

Hi! I was just wondering if you dental school students actually get any practical use of physics in dental school. A friend of mine currently in dental school says that you don't. I hate physics but I did manage to pull an A in physics 1 and I'm currently in physics 2. I just want to know if I can just forget about this horrible subject. lol

The only physics that is practical in dental school is when you wax up a beautiful crown for a practical only to have it fall to the floor shattering into a million pieces as you are getting ready to hand it in. Or better yet, the old school method that I'm sure the baby-boomers enjoy is when you hand in your wax-up to your instructor and he teaches you physics. Then the question becomes at what velocity does a wax-up with .005kg mass strike the wall when it is hurled with an acceleration of 20m/s2 at a distance of 10m? Anyone, anyone? 😀

 

[Sam1980DDS]

lol
that was funny