Would like to know about Dentristry??

[rockopocko81]

For any dental students out there,

So I have been contemplating dentistry and I'd like to know things like how competitive is it to get into dental school, is it easier to get in to dental school than into medical school, is there any residency required, what are salaries like for dentists, do dentists have to put up with ridiculous malpractice insurance like doctors, i've heard that the DAT is considerably easier than the MCAT, is this true? Any help would be helpful.

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[Fulcrum_or_FAIL]

Learning the name of the profession is a good start.

It's Dentistry, not "Dentristry."

Try the ADA website for a fairly comprehensive description of what the occupation entails.

 

[psiyung]

Learning the name of the profession is a good start.

It's Dentistry, not "Dentristry."

Try the ADA website for a fairly comprehensive description of what the occupation entails.

 

[DDSSlave]

For any dental students out there,

So I have been contemplating dentistry and I'd like to know things like how competitive is it to get into dental school, is it easier to get in to dental school than into medical school, is there any residency required, what are salaries like for dentists, do dentists have to put up with ridiculous malpractice insurance like doctors, i've heard that the DAT is considerably easier than the MCAT, is this true? Any help would be helpful.

Getting into dental school today is a lot more competitive then it was yesterday. Last year UT Houston's dental school class had a gpa around 3.6 pretty much making it equally difficult to get into UT's dental school or medical school IMO. I'm sure at most schools med school is still more difficult, but it's becoming negligibly so.

There is no residency required, but they exist both for general dentists (AEGD and GPR) and dental specialists. Insurance for dentists is extremely low compared to medicine. And yes, the DAT is an easier test than the MCAT, but like the MCAT, it's not the difficulty of the questions that's important, it's how you perform compared everyone else taking the test.