Hellllllllla questions for ya:
1. What courses should you take in college in order to get into dental school/to become a dentist?
2. How many years after high school does it take to become a dentist?
3. What is the average starting salary of a dentist?

1. You would take the required pre-dental classes:

2-4 semesters of biology (general, plant, animal, and genetics)
4 semesters of chemistry with labs (including organic chemistry)
1 semester of physics (optional)
1 semester of calculus

2. After high school you spend four years in college and then four years in dental school.

3. Average starting salary is greatly dependent upon your location, credentials, affiliation, and luck. Expect about $50,000 your first few years, possibly less. Dentists don't command extraordinary salaries and usually average about $135,000 (based on an average from a lot of different websites).

I read a story about healers in the Philippines who tap on the root of a bad tooth before extracting it by hand without need of novocain. I am so fed up with fluoride and western dental care but can't seem to find anything else.

Not really.

Just don't use flouride in your toothpaste. Tom's of Maine, peppermint is excellent.

As long as you use Brita, or some filter like it, you should be fine.

Any flouride you get from bits of dental care else where won't do you any harm.

I am going to the dentist first thing Monday morning to have him look at what I am almost 100% sure is an abscessed tooth. I’m assuming that he will prescribe me antibiotics, but how long after first seeing me will he likely preform a root canal on the tooth? Is it possible that if I see him Monday, he will work on it by Wednesday? Obviously Thanksgiving is on Thursday, I have family plans on Friday and then I’m back to school on Sunday.

What are the chances of this? How soon will he work on it, most likely?

Ideally as soon as possible in my opinion. Or he may refer you to an endodontist if he doesn’t have the time in his schedule.

This is for a project that i have to do to graduate, i'm going to Nicaragua to help people as a dental assistant and have to write a paper about it. please help me!

Preventive dentistry. It costs less and and we can get more with prevention. Some suggestions:

Objective1: Educate them (especially the little ones) about proper oral hygiene.

Activities:
. Give them the toothbrush and show them how to use it.
. Give them the floss and show them how to use it.
. Give them the fluoride toothpaste.
. Have them chew on disclosing table and show them the dental plaque

Objective 2. Educate them about eating habit (for example, avoid frequent sugar intake)

Activities:
. Tell them about healthy vegetable diet for adults
. Tell them about the benefit of milk for their child's teeth
. Tell them about how sugar can cause cavities
. Tell them about bottle tooth decay

Objective 3. Educate them about the smoking problems

Activities:
. Advise them about how smoking causes lung cancer
. Advise them about how smoking causes heart attack
. Advise them about how smoking causes bad breath
. Advise them about how smoking cause gum disease
. Advise them about the danger of second-hand smoking
. Advise them about how to get Help for quitting

I hope the above will help you.
Have a good trip and good luck in Nicaragua.

I was told I needed all 4 wisdom teeth out and my dentist said he would do it in his surgery as he thought it best to avoid a general aneasthetic (or however you spell it !). He has removed two of them in his surgery but wants me to go to hospital for one of the remaining ones. He said it's close to the nerve, which is why he doesn't want to do it. Is he going back on what he said about gen aneasthetics or do the hospital just have a diff way of getting them out ? Also my dentist is a private one (I'm in the UK), will I have to pay to have this treatment in hospital ? Anyone know what the cost in comparison to having it done at the dentist is ? I think I paid about £120 for each tooth out so far. Any advice much appreciated. Thanks.

im a certified dental assistant….you need to find yourself an ORAL SURGEON,(sorry for large caps) they are professionals at what they do and will help you,making you feel more comfortable because they specialize in the profession of removing teeth and overall mainly wisdow teeth removal…oral sergeons are professional at removing wisdom teeth they do all the time probably 20 times a day…they specialize in removing hard to remove wisdom teeth.i would recommend you see one than go to the hospital…ive worked with oral sergeons so i know they are great at what they do…hospitals ARE expensive see if you can make an appointment with an oral sergeon..look one up if you have any trouble see if your dentist can refer you to an oral sergeon…hope this helped

I'm needing to get some dental work done and live in Aus, but I'm travelling back to my hometown in Michigan in a couple of months. I'm just trying to work out if it would be cheaper to do it there.

Has anyone had a root canal therapy and crown done recently, or could anyone direct me to a place where I could find a general idea of prices? I know I'd have to speak to the dentist once I get there to know for sure, but it would help to have a general idea. (If it's generally about the same cost, then I'll just enjoy my holiday and get it done once I get home!)

Depending on what is found in the tooth, I could be looking at a root canal and crown or an extraction and implant.

Thanks!

I'm a dentist in Texas. Root canals generally run from $700 to 1000, crowns $800-1200. Implants are about $2500-3500(not including the crown that will need to be placed on the implant)

I know that it varies from state to state but how much does a Dentist generally make a year when starting off straight out of dental school? I live in wisconsin so if you can tell me how much they make here than that would be cool.

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I'm a foreigner living here and I need your advice

I have a medical insurance in the following hospitals in
Malaysia and I want to know which one has'got the best dental care and the best dentists as well

1-Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital
2-Damansara Specialist Hospital
3-Selangor Medical Center
4-KPJ Kajang Specialist Hospital
5-Tawakal Hospital
6-Sentosa Medical Center

and another question

Are there Syrian or Lebanese Dentists?

I don't live in the area so unfortunately I can't be of help.

But I do feel complied to tell you that not all Malaysians are like Living a Life, who doesn't even know that Lebanon and Syria are parts of Asia. *roll eyes* Whatever he just said, well seems like he is describing himself. Dont mind him.

As a foreigner living on others' land, I understand how you may prefer to obtain services from people who have the same background as yourself. I do that a lot too But on the other hand, there is no harm of giving the local dentists a try. Some of them are trained overseas and do a terrific job

I've been to the dentists a few times lately and well my dentist has got her head srewed on but the nurses although nice people seem well no where near as on the ball!

I just wondered what the difference was in level of education and pay?? and anything else?

Thanks
The happy murcia!! Thanks mate exactly as I thought!! just wondered if the nurses had any qaulifications!

one fixes your teeth,the other mixes the stuff to do it.
Builder/labourer kinda thing. xxxxxxxx

and that was my intelligent answer ha ha ha ha lol xx

Cigna requires a hmo primary dentist but it covers 100% on most care. Is having a dental primary care provider really that big of a deal. I need alot of work.

Having a dental PCP is not a big deal, as there are many dentists looking for patients in need of work.