Just finished 1st year of Dentistry AMA

Are you doing it for the money loool

Let me put it this way, there are quicker ways to make £60,000 per year , that too without the 5 years of extra formal education and 2 years of training. *cough finance

hahahahaha true that
what uni are you at?

Kings college. Reminder: I am not representing the university on this thread

what do you mean not representing the university?

Anything I say is not on behalf of the university but drawn from my personal experiences.

Oh now I feel stupid for asking that haha, maybe it would be easier for me to PM you to talk about dentistry at kings?

I have quite a few questions so please answer as many as you can
1. Is the first year mainly theory or hands on?
2. How often are lectures, and for how long?
3. What type of dentist do you want to be?
4. Apart from work experience, what did you do that appealed to the universities?

After using so many TSR resources during my A levels, Ive decided to create an account and help my fellow prospective dental students

Describe some of the features of resistance and retention form in a class II cavity preparation.

EDIT: Actually you may not have done cariology yet... Describe some of the Advantages/Disadvantages of Composite vs. Amalgam.

Hello Kartace!

I'd love to answer your question but unfortunately we haven't covered dental materials yet. That comes next year for us when we start using our phantom heads

Isn't it disgusting working with teeth? What if the person has really smelly breath? Has anyone bitten you?

I don't want to crash the thread but as the OP is in first year they won't have seen any patients personally i wouldn't have thought (Please correct me if I'm wrong)

But in my experience, teeth are no more disgusting than any other part of the human body. Being a gynecologist can be pretty gross, GPs have to look at all sorts of manky things and of course we have colorectal surgeons, NHS healthcare isn't a particularly glamorous business when you get down to it. However, i'd still rather look into people's mouth all day that stare mindlessly into a computer screen or have to work as a street/sewer cleaner or imagine working in an abattoir, that seems gross to me. At least i feel like i'm making a difference and tbh i enjoy interacting with people.

As for the breath, most patients are ok...some are really bad. That's what masks are for, i can think of only a couple of occasions where the mask isn't enough and those were pretty grim.

Bitten - yes...quite a few times, occupational hazard unfortunately.Nothing serious yet or enough to draw blood, but always a surprise when it occurs. I always keep an instrument in the mouth, that way, if someone clamps down, i have something to discourage them. (Children seem to find this an amusing passtime tbh)