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Originally Posted by wooohooo
Dentistry used to be no where as competitive as Medical School. Now it's almost the same. There are less applicants, but there are also less seats. Equally competitive IMO. That said, I have always had bad teeth and pains so I fully appreciate the work a Dentist does
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Academically the requirements are almost identical. The real difference is in the extracurriculars. For dentistry, you basically just have to shadow a dentist during your summers and get a letter of recommendation from one of your profs and that will do you in many cases. For med school, the stuff you have to do outside of the classroom is just staggering and personally I found it demeaning when I did it. Maybe it's just because working in a hospital is a lot less personal than working in a small office, I just couldn't put up with some of the egos in the medical field.
Every dentist I've ever met or worked with has been awesome, but I know a lot of a**hole doctors.