Medical
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What I Wish I Would’ve Known Before Entering Dentistry
Most medical professionals enter healthcare because they want to help and care for those in need. Early on, I recognized that I had a passion for...
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Second Year Dental Student: A Day in the Life
Have you ever wondered what life is like for a second year dental student? Every school, and every student, will have a slightly different...
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DAT Overview From a 99th Percentile Score Recipient
The Dental Admissions Test (DAT) is a 4 hour and 15 minute exam that tests both right and left brain dominant individuals and requires heavy...
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When Times Get Tough: Focusing On The Positive In Dental School
Updated July 22, 2021. The article was updated to correct minor grammatical errors. I’m tired. I feel like I’ve been saying this since the...
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How To Prepare For The DAT: A DAT Study Guide
Attention Pre-dents! This is your go-to guide for everything you need to know about the Dental Admission Test (DAT) and how to study for it. While...
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Ready for Residency: Year-by-Year Preparation for Dental Residency Applications
You spend most days in dental school trying to survive. Tests pummel you; dentures demand that you grind away acrylic for hours; three, four, five...
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Choose Your Adventure: Making The Most Of Dental School Opportunities
Dental school is a dream, even though some days can be a nightmare. Whether you’re trudging through your pre-dental years or you’re deep into the...
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Welcome To Our House: A Dental School Virtual Tour
Dental students spend more time at school than their own houses with people they see more often than their own families. So what exactly happens...
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A-Earners vs Life-Long Learners
The struggle of dental students to find academic balance It’s the morning of an exam. My fourth exam in five days, I might add. My classmates...
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Experience Matters: Clinical Requirements in Dental School
Leading up to our first appointment in clinic, one of my classmates asked our supervising dentist a very insightful question. “What do we tell our...
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Purposeful Prescribing: A Dentist’s Role in the Opioid Epidemic
In our oral surgery student clinic, we have a laminated sheet to reference when writing our two most common post-surgical prescriptions: Norco®...
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What Dental School is Like
The Four Legs of the Dental School Marathon One of the main questions I get about dental school from pre-dental students is, “What’s it...
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Steps to get into Dental School
If you think a dental career might be in your future, you can begin taking steps now to make yourself the most competitive applicant possible....
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Train For The DAT Like A Marathoner
This article originally ran on ASDA’s blog, Mouthing Off , on April 21, 2017. Preparing for the DAT can be one of the most...
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How to Choose Your Dental School
April showers bring May flowers, and May flowers into a summer of applications for dental student hopefuls. Preparation for dental school is...
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Everything I Know About Dental Clinic, I Learned in Kindergarten
One billion. That is the approximate number of tidbits I gathered during my first semester of clinic. My mind is now cluttered with one billion...
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Decision in a Sea of Dental Residencies
Over the holidays, dental school students all over the nation put down the books, hung up the scrubs, and went home to spend time with family....
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How to Prepare For Any Casper Test Scenario
Before giving you some specific strategies to ace Casper scenarios, it’s important to step back and talk about where this test comes from and what...
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The Advanced Dental Admission Test (ADAT) : What We Know So Far
Last year, the American Dental Association (ADA) introduced a new exam called the Advanced Dental Admission Test (ADAT). This was in response to...
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Be Strong, Be Confident, but Most Importantly, Be Yourself
Always be the Best Version of Yourself Hey guys! My name is Sidhant Athilat. I am a D2 at New York University College of Dentistry. I was born...
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What to Wear Dental Shadowing
You've scheduled your first shadowing appointment scheduled! Now, what will you wear?! Ask the Dentist/Front Office When scheduling your...
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Research Your Passions
Hello, Pre-Dents! My name is Macy and I am in my third year of dental school. The journey to get into dental school is certainly a...
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How to Ask a Dentist if You can Shadow
So now that you have found a dentist that you would like to shadow, what do you do? First off, you should know that in our experience, most...
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Health and Wellness in Dental School & Undergrad
Before starting dental school, one of my biggest fears was whether or not I would be able to balance school with self-care. It has taken a lot...
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How to Find Dentists to Shadow
Now that you know why you need to shadow dentists . How do you find dentists to shadow? Ways to Find a Dentist to Shadow 1. Ask your...