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Problems with dentistry
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yagoubian said:
Problems facing dentistry...hmm........:
1) students who have 2.1 GPA and 15 DAT cannot get into dental school
2) too many patients with bad breaths.....
3) too many patients who do not have insurance...cannot overcharge them....
just kidding!
MY main problem with dentistry today is that its so hard to get in. Its gonna be a bitch getting in with an overall GPA of 2.5 and knowing that I have to get a 30 on my DAT to even have a chance. 👍 After that uphill battle, if I got in somewhere, its another uphill battle to make it through. If I made it through dental school, its yet another uphill battle paying it off. Yea, I see how dentists have the highest suicide rates... 
IcemanDDS said:MY main problem with dentistry today is that its so hard to get in. Its gonna be a bitch getting in with an overall GPA of 2.5 and knowing that I have to get a 30 on my DAT to even have a chance. 👍 After that uphill battle, if I got in somewhere, its another uphill battle to make it through. If I made it through dental school, its yet another uphill battle paying it off. Yea, I see how dentists have the highest suicide rates...
Please, before you go spreading unreliable information, inform yourself. It's amazing what people will believe just because "a guy I know said...." Please read this study published in the Journal of the American Dental Association Alexander, Vol. 132, June 2001, p. 786-93. In fact I'll even post a link to it for those of you that are too lazy to actually go find the article on your own. I just wish more people would find out what they are talking about when they talk about dentistry.
http://dentin.org/alexander/alexander.pdf
In fact, since this is a post about some of the problems facing dentistry, I'll share a few more articles with you:
Downsizing your debt http://dentin.org/debt/downsize.pdf
Minimizing pain http://dentin.org/pain/pain.pdf
Honesty http://dentin.org/honestdentist/honestdentist.pdf
Standard of Care http://dentin.org/sofcare/sofcare.pdf
Phenomenal Case Acceptance http://dentin.org/phenom/phenom3.pdf
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Dentists don't have elevated suicide rates relative to the rest of the professional population. The myth has been debunked about as thoroughly as sociology research allows.IcemanDDS said:MY main problem with dentistry today is that its so hard to get in. Its gonna be a bitch getting in with an overall GPA of 2.5 and knowing that I have to get a 30 on my DAT to even have a chance. 👍 After that uphill battle, if I got in somewhere, its another uphill battle to make it through. If I made it through dental school, its yet another uphill battle paying it off. Yea, I see how dentists have the highest suicide rates...
I'm sorry if I have spread untrue information about dentistry and the urban myth that dentists have the highest suicide rates. I was merely joking around about problems with dentistry today and using that myth as part of my joking. Please dont think that I'm that nieve. So in a word: Joking!quakinator said:
IcemanDDS said:
It's ok Ice, you still have the best avatar this side of SDN. 👍
😀 Thanksbusupshot83 said:
