Why Dentistry?

As a dentist you enjoy the flexibility the profession can provide in many different forms. Being able to control days, hours and weeks you want to work increases the quantity and quality of free time, and time that can be spent with the family. The excitement of running your own business and making decisions is simultaneously challenging and highly rewarding. The results of one's hard work can be seen quickly, and dental practice is a permanent source of satisfaction, providing the best of both worlds professionally and personally.

Dentists improve the quality of life of people through diagnosis, prevention and treatment of oral diseases and conditions involving teeth and surrounding tissues. Some of them include oral infections like dental caries and gum diseases, their consequences, trauma and malformed structures in the mouth.

Dental practice is a social practice. It requires effective interpersonal skills. Its huge clinical component demands solid biological and social foundations based upon sound research, the highest ethical standards, bio-technical knowledge, and outstanding manual dexterity.

Nature of dentists' work is deeply involved with health care, research, and education. See what dentistry has to offer!

Dentistry offers real opportunities of a balanced lifestyle fulfilling personal/familiar and professional goals. Among many other things, it offers:

• Professional satisfaction: Effective improvement of quality of life of people by enhancing patients' and communities' oral health and appearance is a permanent source of proud and satisfaction.
• Earning potential: Dentists' average income is in the highest 5% of U.S. family income1.
• Independence: 80 percent of dentists in private practice are sole proprietors2. When running their own practices, they establish their service and financial goals, and accordingly, they control their work schedule and pace.
• Clinical, educational and research opportunities: Dental practice includes a huge clinical component, but is not limited to it. Dental research and academic dentistry offer interesting career pathways by themselves, or combined. Every day is an exciting professional challenge.