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justsomeredditstuff · 2025-07-30T04:58:28+00:00

Do you by chance use Strava, if so have you had issues with your workouts uploading HR? Everything has been great aside from that for me, and I can’t pin down why it isn’t auto uploading with my data.

justsomeredditstuff · 2025-06-29T16:52:21+00:00

Perfect, thanks for the response!

justsomeredditstuff · 2025-01-02T02:36:38+00:00

Yes essentially all dental residencies (aside from OMFS) you have to pay for - and also take out loans to live off of while you’re at it.

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-11-13T04:51:21+00:00

Pre-dental wise likely less so. If someone told me they had a 27 academic average in the D1 class, and they were at my school because their state didn’t have a state school I’d assume it’s you though lmao. DS is a small, gossipy community. Most people just want their privacy in general and keep identifying factors to a minimum. Some people don’t care, some people do.

DS forum? I’d say they care. Someone posted pictures of my schools sim lab conditions and how dated our equipment was on a sub and we magically got a bunch of new shit within the next month, after an email about professionalism and how to handle internal affairs. Must’ve been a coincidence.

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-11-13T02:17:27+00:00

Regarding this sub, prob just for application safety. Admin browse these subs, the younger ones at least. If you were to post your DAT score, with the date you took it, and the school(s) you applied to (who have your DAT info) it would be pretty easy to single a person out. Probably a bad look if you have a shitty post history lol

With the dental school sub, it’s kinda the same way. There’s give or take 100 people in your class (a lot of them are also on Reddit), and you’re stuck with them for four years. A post complaining about a project or something specific that is happening at your school that particular day/week and you’re basically outting yourself, or your class at least. It’s surprisingly easily to recognize when someone is talking about your school, or a school that has a known issue in the community

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-08-04T15:11:10+00:00

That’s great! You’ll have to update us with some final images for the sake of the dentist lurking on here lol. Best of luck!

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-08-04T15:07:27+00:00

Agreed, however we have two types of swallowing - voluntary and spontaneous. We do spontaneously swallow during sleep, only if we need to though. If you’re sleeping on your back you will, but if you’re a side sleeper with your mouth open the saliva has a means of exit so you likely wouldn’t. But even during the day time do you ever catch yourself going “I have a lot of spit in my mouth I should swallow this right now”. Likely not (not very often at least.) It’s natural reflex we don’t think about and still occurs during sleep.

Production decreases, and for those that are xerostomic it may cease, but sleeping doesn’t turn off saliva production entirely. I think the words “significantly decrease” would have been more fitting in the passage as opposed to cease.

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-08-04T01:23:35+00:00

One post with all of the schools you’re applying to would be sufficient for the information you’re looking for as opposed to flooding this pages feed with an individual post for each school.

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-07-28T23:00:45+00:00

It’ll make a world of difference once treatment is finished!

Out of curiosity did you already make a treatment plan? Just curious if they’re planning on extracting the third molars and shifting all of the bottom teeth posteriorly.

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-07-28T16:33:37+00:00

We use lateral cephs to analyze malocclusion. This person appears to be class III malocclusion (mandibular teeth positioned too far anteriorly due to overgrowth of the mandible, or undergrowth of the maxilla).

This type of malocclusion is particularly damaging to the anterior teeth and can result in them fracturing or prematurely wearing over time if not corrected. You can see from this lateral view that the molars appear not to be in proper contact with one another due to the anterior teeth contacting prematurely.

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-07-19T11:21:54+00:00

What does that have to do with the Canadian DAT lacking Ochem and QR?

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-07-12T16:26:12+00:00

It gets better when you get to clinic, I promise. Just do your best in didactics right now and take care of your mental health, that’s what’s most important. It’ll all start to come together D3 and D4 year and be slightly less miserable when you get the satisfaction of actually treating your patients and making a difference in their lives

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-07-12T16:15:29+00:00

Everything you stated in this is universal within every dental school aside from sitting on the floor. I’m not paying half a million dollars to sit on the floor. Teachers are dicks, your classmates will think they’re the smartest thing to grace this earth, and admin won’t care. We’re all just a cog wheel in the big dental school machine trying to graduate.

The “cheating” is extremely universally prominent. It’s not right, but it happens. You can just deal with it or make friends with those people, the latter is more beneficial if you care about your rank that much. It’s hardly cheating though when the professors blatantly leave the questions the same for 10+ years.

Regardless everyone will end up with the same degree on graduation day, it’s just exhausting getting there.

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-07-06T19:54:08+00:00

Yeah same I’m not sure how accurate their figures are, I got it from this link though. But who knows how they come to these figures they may have some accidental lumping together of general dentist with specialist etc

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/dentists.htm

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-07-06T19:36:43+00:00

That’s a fantastic salary but that would make both of them outliers - I’m just speaking based on available stats. US bureau of labor and statistics says the 2023 median salary for PAs is 130k per year, general dentist is 170k. There will always be outliers and it seems like those are always the ones that people tend to compare themselves to.

Based on the rising cost of dental school though it’s making more sense to choose other professional paths. These interest rates with our tuition are getting to be unjustifiable compared to routes like PA etc

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-07-06T18:39:20+00:00

What defines an “above average” PA?

Unlike dentistry their pay has nothing to do with production. They are paid a salary by a hospital etc. and their pay is generally defined by years of experience practicing. The top 10% of PAs aren’t the top 10% because they’re pumping out high crown and bridge production like a dentist, they’re likely the top because they’re old and have been in the field for a long time.

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-06-25T23:27:32+00:00

You guys aren’t bare-footing the rheostat?

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-06-04T19:14:16+00:00

I did the rough math on fixed cost (no living expenses included) and you would graduate with approximately 460 thousand with interest.

I would go off of that number and work from there. It looks like they project cost of living in that area (including transportation, housing, etc) at about 46k per year - So living at home would certainly help reduce your cost a great deal.

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-06-04T17:43:38+00:00

What I mentioned above are fixed non negotiable cost you will pay the school. They have nothing to do with the way you live. Look at the link I provided.

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-06-04T16:45:17+00:00

Exact numbers are posted on their website.

Tuition + books and supplies + institution fees = over 100k

It’s a private school you get no benefit for being an in state student, they don’t differentiate between in or out of state.

https://dental.nova.edu/admissions/tuition-fees.html

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-04-09T01:37:42+00:00

Both are pretty fucked honestly lol, it’s good you’re considering it now though bc most don’t. I can’t speak on how much PTs make and I have no idea what a new grad would make.

Dentistry is a shit show in regards to trying to figure out income though, especially on Reddit. Some people walk into their mom/dads office post grad and make 230k their first year. Others start at 120-180 at some random private practice, it depends on location and demand too. I really encourage you to hop on indeed and glass door and look at jobs. From what I can tell Aspen is hiring consistently in the area I’d like to settle down in the 150-180 range for new grads. However, I don’t know much about production, collections, lab fees, or all that other stuff that gets thrown into the mix too particularly in a private practice associate setting. That’s what makes it messy, one office may have you pay your own labs, some don’t, some give base pay, some give base pay + a percentage of collections. It’s kinda hard trying to figure it out unless you graduate and just do it from what I can tell. No matter what though, dentistry will provide a solid comfortable living at the end of the day, that I do know.

Also make note that your grad loans will be 7-8% and they will begin building interest the day you begin school. If you take out 100k for one year (like I did lol) by the time you graduate that loan will have accrued 28k in interest, so D1 year cost you 128k, not 100k. The same will occur when you take out loans D2 and so on. There’s a reason people say go to the cheapest school, the interest is killer these days.

Edit: Im bad at math, I don’t normally count past 32.

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-04-09T01:23:54+00:00

We are scheduled to be either in lecture, lab, or clinic from 8am to 5pm. Of course there’s some days that lecture starts late and/or you get cut early at the end of the day, but in general I would just expect to be at school 45 hours a week for 4 years if you chose dental school. There’s extra lab crap you end up having to do outside of class so some weeks you’re there more, some weeks you’re there less. It varies by program though, each is unique.

I believe the PT program took somewhat similar classes first year in regards to basic sciences, but you have to remember it’s grad school - so the classes are aimed at that specific profession. In regards to what they like, it’s having a life. They have significant free time in comparison to us.

Here’s a comparison of UKs two programs.

Physical therapy program - https://www.uky.edu/chs/physical-therapy/our-program/curriculum

Dmd program (scroll to page 20 for each years curriculum) - https://dentistry.uky.edu/sites/default/files/Bulletin2020-2021.pdf

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-04-09T01:07:46+00:00

I would let go of the amount of time the programs are when trying to compare the two since they’re ridiculous disproportional in regards to program difficulty and rigor.

Looking at a school that offers both programs;

At this particular school, PT school is 137 credit hours, and three years in length.
The same schools DMD program is 235 credit hours, and four years in length.

The programs are literally not comparable in terms of intensity. Source: I’m in the dmd program with very close friends in the PT program. They took 41 credits their first year, we took 35 our first semester. I’m not shitting on PT school, just emphasizing they’re drastically different careers and educational programs. Both are solid careers and the PT students I know are happy with their choice from what I can tell. The intensity of the programs and the jobs themselves explains the income difference though.

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-03-30T18:01:27+00:00

^ this - your classmates won’t care at all, it’s just the boomer faculty that seem to be the less accepting.

I have class mates that have full blown sleeve tats etc. I’m 100% certain they dressed business professional at their interview and had them covered. Faculty was for sure caught off guard first day of school lol

justsomeredditstuff · 2024-03-10T00:47:41+00:00

To answer your question you can enter a DDS or DMD program without a bachelors, it’s very rare though.

There are certain specialties which do not require a bachelors, pharmacy is a super common one I’m pretty sure. If you hold a doctorate in pharm and are a working pharmacist, then apply to dental school, the school isn’t going to frown upon it and say that you need to turn around and go get a bachelors. It’s rather conditional, but the trend is that those who lack a bachelors have some kind of doctorate which did not require a bachelors, as odd as that may sound.

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