I'll never understand our society's fascination with ranking things. People Magazine's Top 50 Bachelors, ESPNs Top 25 for everything, Forbes 100 Richest people, pre-med vs pre-dent, "is there a listing of dental school rankings". I just don't get it. For 99.9% of posters on this board, both medical and dental students, NONE of us are qualified to assess which is harder because none of us have done both. Who cares what your girlfriend said, what your friend tells you. The cold hard fact is that none of us can ever post a legitimate response because we have not done both. For the select few who have done both, like "waiting" has, even their opinion is just that...an opinion. Just because they feel one was harder vs the other does not mean it's universal. What's difficult to one person, may be easy to another, and vice versa.
I think a lot of the dental people on this board need to get over their inferiority complexes as far as medicine is concerned. Granted *some* MDs may view DDSs as inferior, but as a whole I really think that dental students have an inferiority complex, as if they have to justify why they chose dentistry over medicine. The OP had a legitimate question, and of course those people who freak out when any sentence including medicine and dentistry is posted, all come out to bash. This board has gotten so useless because it is filled with crap like this. There is so little discussion regarding actual dentistry that it's barely worth coming here. Every other thread is a pissing match about which is better, who makes more money, blah blah blah.
Am I the only one who wishes to see less of that garbage and more actual dental discussion?! It's no wonder so few "professionals" post here. I guess that's what dental town is for. I'm surprised Dr. Jeff is around to humor the masses, he must feel like the father of a few hundred.
