Could someone tell me a little bit about becoming a Dentist? (Dental School, Salary, Job/Family Time)?

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Could someone tell me a little bit about becoming a Dentist? (Dental School, Salary, Job/Family Time)?
first look on salary.com, it gives you the low end pay, middle pay, and high end pay. It also tells what state you are most likely to get paid the most. There is alot of great info on there, try it out.
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Reply:Dental School is a four year curriculum following 4 years in a baccalaureate program. Courses required for acceptance into a dental school are 1 year of inorganic chemistry, 1 year of organic chemistry, 1 year of biologic sciences, 1 year of English and 1 year of math. An admittance examination is required before applications are accepted. Competition is great requiring high grade point averages in undergraduate school. All in all 8 years minimum. Unless you are lucky and have parents who can pay your way through college or be lucky enough to have a rich uncle,


most young dentists graduate with a student loan debt of no less than $150,000 ( and this may be low with the exorbitant college tuition these days ). And oh yes, you cannot bankruptcy out of student loans. You pay them off or take them to the grave.





As for what a dentist earns? That is all dependent upon how hard you want to work during the day, how many days a year you work, how good are you at what you do, your people skills, and what type of dental care you provide.





Family time is again dependent upon how many hours you work.


Generally speaking dentists have much more free time than our physician colleagues. Dentists also do not get the numerous emergency calls. Most every weekend is free unless you choose to work them.





I ought to know. I have been a dentist for 23 years.