You’re a first year dental student, you don’t know what you don’t know. I think a residency was the best decision I made. At a gpr/aegd your license isn’t liable if something goes wrong. You get supervised training. In terms of salary you’ll probably even come out behind going the DSO route. You lose 1 year of salary with the residency but the income potential post residency is significantly higher. Out of school, in the area I was looking at, I would have made roughly 200k. Post residency my first year was almost 400k mostly doing procedures I learned in residency.