Questions Regarding Clincal Requirements

[ILikeTeeth]

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Hello,

I just have some questions, and maybe I should post this in another section since this Pre-Dental.

Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone knew of the clinical requirements for Temple, NYU, or Tufts? Things like how many root canals, crowns, bridges, extractions, etc.. must a student do before he/she can graduate. Or if someone can guide me in exactly what to ask teh dental schools, I would appreciate that as well.

I heard that NYUs clinic are old, is this true, or have they remodeled all the clinics? Also the cost of NYU, $45,000 a year, that's just a little too much for me. Tufts is just has much. Temple is $28,000 or so, which is a lot cheaper. They save a lot of money by having the students do all the lab work. Does NYU make there students do the lab work? But New York must be a nice place then Philadelphia?

I hope I get some feedback on the clinical aspects of this message. I personally am not after the big name like Penn or Harvard. I am not into research. I will let the PhDs have fun with that. My goal in becoming a dentist is excel in the care and treatment of my patience thus I am looking for a great clinical training based dental school

Thank you,

 

[UBTom]

I can't say for NYU's clinical requirements, but I can say that NYU is in a good area of New York City, and that they don't make you do much labwork (their philosophy is that practicing dentists rarely do those things anyway). According to my sister, it was common practice for NYU students to pay a lab tech to do things like pour and ditch dies and set denture teeth for you.

HTH.

 

[Gutta Percha]

Most school only require one bridge. Most only require 8-10 crowns. Most require 8 canals for endo. These are minimums for some/most schools. If these are the minimum requirements for the school you are applying then look for another school. Before you graduate you should have at least 2 bridges, 20+crowns and 8+ teeth for endo. It doesn't sound like much more, but trust me it is. Lab work will be done by all students at all schools, it just depends on which lab work you will do. Will you cut dies, mount, wax up, make guide planes. Don't go to school based on lab work required, it's all required.

 

[Dr.BadVibes]

Ill get the exact requirements from Temple later this week, but a dentist who graduated from Temple in 2000 posted what he did on DentalTown:

I graduated having done 37 units of fixed, 10 sets of full dentures, 5 sets of partials, well over 300 extractions, 3 anterior, 5 premolar, and 6 molar endo, as well as 3 perio surgeries and numerous quad scalings.

Also, he said that if he wanted to do more, there were always patients available for extra work....