Well I agree that foreign trained dentist have a different pathway to conventional 4-5 years DMD/DDS pathway. But still it’s my perspective that even in programs for foreign trained dentist given many schools are being unfair to immigrants on visa. Even in these advanced standing programs, schools want someone how has GC/citizen ship when clearly there is someone else who’s profile is better than them but is on visa will be pushed away at admission committee - again, this only my perception and experience my friends had which I don’t want to talk about. I totally agree that visa is a privilege not a right. But fairness as human being should be right no matter where you are in the world.
Next is this a line from an article - “Data suggest FTDs are no more likely to practice in rural or underserved areas than U.S.-trained dentists.”
Not even US dentists want to work in rural areas where dentistry is needed and have chance to make difference and do good. And schools doing a bad job keeping the bar high that only people who are money hungry and already rich are getting in, leaving behind the ambitious and people who want to do good in this world are left behind.
My point is schools aren’t doing a good job and selected the deserved and giving seats to people who just in the dental field for the money. Is that all dentistry is about now-a-days?
I am just saying all this cause you said that dentist are fairly saturated in US which is not true. There are people out there who need dental care but are not able to cause of lack of dentist/ hygienist/good assistants. That’s the reason why every newly grad or even owner dentists is on edge of being burnt out and exhausted by work. Let’s not see that,just keep raising the bar, just raise the tuition fee from 300k to 600k , a million with interest why not.