You want to know more about the dental field? Then this chat bot is perfect to inform and enlight you with the key knowledge about mostly everything you should know if you may have an eye for dentistry as a future career or maybe just to understand better the job. The motivation of explaining and showing others about my future career made me search and write in a very detailed yet simple way of describing the in and out of this career.
Being a dentist is to be a medical specialist in the oral department in the health care. Being a dentist is also helping and educating patient on how to maintain and improve their oral health. Not only they fix others smile, but they also prevent the patients smile from getting infections or health issues.
Dentists play the role of preventative doctor who look out for oral issues or other problems that could bring harm to the body that manifest in the patient mouth. Dentists are also surgeon who can extract or fix some misplace tooth or broken. They are the one who deals with problems that as to doing with the gum and teeth. They also provide cosmetic care such as whitening teeth.
Dentists work around 7 to 10 hours a day, basically regular office hours. Gets to enjoy majority holiday like a lot of other workers. A lot or work that they do on the regular daily basis consist of “examination of patients for tooth decay or disease, make models for teeth's appliances, educate patients on proper oral care and analyze x-rays”. It can happen sometimes that they do more complicated procedure like “performing root canals, fitting and installing crowns, measuring for dentures, and sometimes they also extract teeth.”
Most dentists work in private practice clinic or public health facilities but some others work universities to maybe teach or provide health care. Sometime there are some places that also needs dental care specialist in the emergency department like in hospital.
To become a dentist there are several years of education and training. First students need to receive a Diploma of college Studies, a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field like biology or chemistry or the equivalent. Students also need to have a good academic record for the admission into dental school. Secondly, they need to pass the Dental Aptitude Test. Then apply to a dental school training program at a university. The dental program takes at least four to five years of classroom and clinical training to complete and get a Doctor of Dental Medical degree. After that, the student needs to pass the National Dental Examination Board of Canada’ s examination to be eligible for a license. Then apply for the license through the Ordre des dentists du Quebec and pass the exam to be authorized to have a dental career. After that, the student may or may not want to continue to specialize in a specific dental field.
Depending on the province or country, dentist in Canada can make around $207,441 per year. During their first years it could be $127,080 per year and after a lot of years of experience it could go up to $224,886 per year.
With additional training such as residency programs, advance courses or education about the latest techniques and technologies, dentists could specialize in areas like orthodontics, oral surgery, and periodontics but that is only if they wish to.
Dentists can end up with muscle issues because of the working position they often perform. They are expose to a lot of harmful things like radiation exposure, chemicals exposure or infectious diseases.
The chance is very slim because the complex and delicate task need to be done by a human and not a robot. Robots could be a help when it comes to analyzing scans or 3D print tooth.
It depends on the reasons whether is financial satisfaction, health or preferences. It’s a personal choice that is different for all. There is no specific age to retire in this field.
I might only be a college student, but I hope that my goal of being a future dentistry student excited you as much as for me and that now your knowledge about dentistry has expended more than before and that dentistry might be a career that you find interesting.