Dentistry

wireless101

Any dentistry students willing to give me an insight?

Tind777

40 years of jealousy of meds, with occassional(altough untrue) self reassurance that you male more money than them. why would you want to put in all the work of medical school without becoming a doctor. dentists suffer very low status in the medical profession

Rón beag

Tind777 wrote: »

40 years of jealousy of meds, with occassional(altough untrue) self reassurance that you male more money than them. why would you want to put in all the work of medical school without becoming a doctor. dentists suffer very low status in the medical profession

Rubbish! it's not "all the work of medical school". Dent students do most of the same subjects as meds in the first few years because they're relevant to both (physiology etc). But the last few years are mainly practical based, its completely different to going to med school.

To OP the course is pretty intensive and it will get tough when you're still in hospital when all the rest of the students hae gone home on the Christmas holidays but well worth it in the end!

Goodkat

Get over yourself Tind777!! Yes there is rivalry between meds and dents but it's always been a friendly one from my experience.

And if you had any idea what you were talking about you would know that the medicine and dentistry courses are totally different with the dent course obviously focussing on the mouth but also the head and neck to the extent that by the end of the 5 years a dent student will know more about the head than a doctor. As for our "low status in the medical profession" the only thing we have to suffer is pompous and self-inflated medical snobs like yourself who only did the course to lord it over everybody else. Congrats on the degree Dr. Douchebag, try proctology but get your head out of there first. As for your warped views on salary it depends on what you do, where you do it and how good you are at it.

As for the course. It's tough but worth it!

Tind777

is there a doctor in the house?? ' no but i went to college for five years to charge €400 an hour to polish teeth on people even though a veterinary surgeon can do the exact same on animals with just a few hours lectures in vet school, is that any good??':D:D:D

keane2097

(EDIT: in my experience) Any negativity between meds and dents is mainly from med people who think of themselves as defined by their college course and feel a gammy self-satisfaction that their course has a higher points requirement than other people's blithely disregarding the fact that not everyone attempted to get into medicine.

That said, most of the med people I know are pure sound. Just the occasional spastic like anywhere else (if a more irritating kind of spastic!).

Anyone I know doing dentistry has nothing but good things to say about it and the money's good so work away imo.

keane2097

Tind777 wrote: »

is there a doctor in the house?? ' no but i went to college for five years to charge €400 an hour to polish teeth on people even though a veterinary surgeon can do the exact same on animals with just a few hours lectures in vet school, is that any good??':D:D:D

You, by the way, are a troll.

Goodkat

And at €400 an hour you think we have an "occassional (altough untrue) self reassurance" that we make more money than you?

Rón beag

Tind777 wrote: »

is there a doctor in the house?? ' no but i went to college for five years to charge €400 an hour to polish teeth on people even though a veterinary surgeon can do the exact same on animals with just a few hours lectures in vet school, is that any good??':D:D:D

Em which profession regularly sticks their fingers up someone else's arse? :eek:

Tind777

Goodkat wrote: »

And at €400 an hour you think we have an "occassional (altough untrue) self reassurance" that we make more money than you?

consultant level consultations of €240 for 15-20 minutes max:D:D:D
30 year regs on 300k+ per annum
in reply to proctocology, name one tv series about dentitsts, and not just a tv series in which a dentist is a character!!! dont think the blizzards are going to release a single called trust me i'm a dentist. would any doc ever say at his retirement , if only i had become a dentist???

nesf

Children keep the inter-departmental bitching to a minimum please. Tind777, if you do any more trolling on here you'll earn yourself a ban.

D-Generate

Tind777 wrote: »

in reply to proctocology, name one tv series about dentitsts, and not just a tv series in which a dentist is a character!!!

Hmmm...
Good Luck Chuck - Dane Cook is a dentist
Thats all I can think of but I do know he bones Jessica Alba in it so if that course gets you to boning Jessica Alba than go forth and study!

eimear89

The guy in My Family is a dentist, and so is Orson in desperate housewives.

Anyway not all dentists are failed medics. I'm in dent, I could have done medicine if I wanted but I realised I simply wasn't passionate enough about doing it to put in the huge amount of work involved plus the incredibly long hours. That's not to say that dentistry is easier, but once you're qualified at least you'll be working more normal hours than a doctor would. I've never noticed any animosity between meds and dents anyway.

So getting back to what the person originally asked- an insight into dentistry.This is what the course is like in UCC:
The first two years of the course will have nothing to do with teeth really! You'll be learning physiology, anatomy, biochem and you'll have introductory lectures on dentistry. Hours are pretty sweet in the first term, 10 hours, but after christmas it increases. I found first year fine, although learning all the anatomy of the head and neck is a pain and also in dissections it seems pretty pointless to be dissecting the spleen!

I'm in second year and so far we've been doing neurophysiology where you learn about mechanisms of pain etc, also do embryology and neuroanatomy. There's also a module on tooth morphology- how teeth are formed. Other modules are biochem, pathology, pharmacology etc. You'll only get 6 weeks summer holidays that year because after your summer exams you'll be shadowing fourth years in the dental hospital

In first year you'll be in lectures with pharmacists for some of your modules and in second year you'll be with meds and pharms for a lot of lectures.

Then from third year on you'll be basically living at the hospital doing work on patients.

Hope that's somewhat helpful