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dentistry or medicine

m1chan

Hello, i was wondering which is the better 1, and which 1 outweighs which? including all pros and cons of each

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do you like teeth?

Would you consider yourself a practical inclined person? ie like to use your hands to make/build things.

Reply 3

No Future

Depends what you want!

Reply 4

QT 3.14159265

medicine, enough said.

Reply 5

ninety_nine

They're pretty different, each with their own advantages and disadvantages, very person-specific. The same person who would kill to be a medic, may hate to be a dentist and vice versa.

In terms of pay, prestige and competition for places theres very little difference i.e both very high.

Reply 6

Democracy

Liek medicine is teh pwnzor

Reply 7

Renal

What do you want to do? What is it about the two careers that attracts you to both?

Money?
Profession & status?
Job stability?
Helping people?

I would hazzard that many medics who do surgery would be good dentists and that many tooth butchers would be good medics.

Reply 8

modini

Medecine is a lot broader so there are lots of specialities.

Reply 9

Emmalouise1990

Medicine, personally. If you want to help people, I would say Medicine is more suited to you. If not (and you like teeth ;grin; ) , go for Dentistry!

Reply 10

bright star

dentists aren't uncaring!! it's not like fixing peoples cavities and stopping their teeth hurting isn't helping them....

:teeth:

Reply 11

Emmalouise1990

I just mean, if you want a more broad experience of helping people, Medicine would probably suit you more.

Reply 12

No Future

Emmalouise1990

I just mean, if you want a more broad experience of helping people, Medicine would probably suit you more.

Eh? Doctors and dentists help people with health problems...

Reply 13

Emmalouise1990

In terms of what doctors and dentists actually do. Doctors can work in A&E, as GP's,surgeons, go into phychiatry etc. Whereas there is not as much choice in dentistry.

Reply 14

Asclepius

Medicine, then if you decide you really want to do the whole face thing, you could do maxillofacial surgery

Reply 15

Emmalouise1990

Alex L

Medicine, then if you decide you really want to do the whole face thing, you could do maxillofacial surgery

LOL.Good to have a backup plan! :wink:

Reply 16

Miss_Scarlett

Emmalouise1990

In terms of what doctors and dentists actually do. Doctors can work in A&E, as GP's,surgeons, go into phychiatry etc. Whereas there is not as much choice in dentistry.

The OP could do both and do Max fax. There we go problem solved.

edit: Just noticed Alex L beat me to the punch, Im getting slow :biggrin:

Reply 17

Renal

Emmalouise1990

In terms of what doctors and dentists actually do. Doctors can work in A&E, as GP's,surgeons, go into phychiatry etc. Whereas there is not as much choice in dentistry.

In addition to the above. I assume that the direct equivalent of GP in medicine is GDP and within hospital dentistry there must be over a dozen distinct specialities...

Reply 18

Evolin

Emmalouise1990

In terms of what doctors and dentists actually do. Doctors can work in A&E, as GP's,surgeons, go into phychiatry etc. Whereas there is not as much choice in dentistry.

Reply 19

m1chan

my friend says he wants :

interesting broad career ( ie. medicine)
status - ( more on medicine)
free time enough to spend decent time with family and spare time to do other things ( dentistry?)
money ( is medicine actually enough?)

can i have some personal opinions as to how any of u wud weigh these factors, and which you would end up chosing, also whether medicine keeps us 'wealthy' and if dentistry really makes life easier?