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Why medicine and not dentistry ?

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Medicine is far more varied; there is a huge scope that just does not exist in dentistry. In medicine, psychiatry and opthalmology and gynaocology are just so different. I think that was the main thing that attracted me to medicine.

Reply 2

tania<3

Which would you prefer - putting your hands up people's bottoms/vaginas/any orifice you can think of or in people's mouths?

Bottoms etc - Medicine. Mouths - Dentistry.

Reply 3

nexttime

Well i guess dentistry you know what job you're signing up for, whereas medicine has many different options (though i will steer clear of saying its more varied - you can only pick one speciality and many are extremely repetitive). So i guess you have to decide whether you like the sound of being a dentist or not. If you do, dentistry offers quicker training, more independence, potentially better working hours, and i think probably less bureaucracy although they are tied down by complicated NHS payment schemes a bit i think. Don't know how pay compares - probably varies more than the rigid structure of medicine.

Reply 4

Lantana

Dentistry is obv. very surgical. Medicine you can go into public health and avoid patients forever! :tongue:

Reply 5

Hype en Ecosse

Mouths are boring and it's too surgical for me!

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Reply 6

bertstare

Original post by Hype en Ecosse

Mouths are boring and it's too surgical for me!

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Say that to my face

Reply 7

Revenged

Original post by tania<3

Which would you prefer - putting your hands up people's bottoms/vaginas/any orifice you can think of or in people's mouths?

Bottoms etc - Medicine. Mouths - Dentistry.

tania, FINGER, not hands and not fingers... you cant put hands in bottoms or vaginas!

reminds me of "how many fingers do I use, two or three" said the new surgical FY1 before the PR...

^^^ true story... the stories, the stories... i still hate surgeons, of all kinds, but dentists i do not mind <3 - go for dentistry, we dont need anymore egotistic surgeons - the world has enough :smile:

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Reply 8

nexttime

Original post by Revenged

tania, FINGER, not hands and not fingers... you cant put hands in bottoms or vaginas!

Not much experience with bimanual compression I take it?

Reply 9

Doc.Daneeka

My interest in gyne just sky rocketed.

Why medicine and not dentistry? Because dentistry is even more difficult (impossible for me) to get into than medicine and doesn't offer the same range of specialisation later in the career.

Reply 10

Kinkerz

In all honesty, if you have to ask yourself this question, you should probably reflect a bit more deeply about what kind of work you want and, more importantly, why you want it.

They're totally different jobs.

Reply 11

BeanofJelly

Original post by nexttime

Not much experience with bimanual compression I take it?

Haha I hope you know what's that's for and don't think it's routinely done :tongue:

Agreed with kinkerz - if you don't know enough about either medicine or dentistry to answer this question yourself, then your problem is more fundamental than choosing between them :s-smilie: