What makes a man decide to be a dentist?

[PeteRoy]

What makes a man decide to be a dentist?

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: PeteRoy
What makes a man decide to be a dentist?

He flunks out of medical school?

 

[BrianH1]

ANTI-DENTITES UNITE!

 

[Safeway]

The money?

 

[Slew Foot]

The $200k/yr+ salary?

 

[JDrake]

Tooth fetish

 

[loup garou]

Extreme sadistic tendencies.

 

[AbAbber2k]

This movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116075/

 

[shuttleboi]

The $200K/year salary minus malpractice insurance?

 

[Jadow]

the hot dental girls that always work for dentists

 

[raystorm]

Originally posted by: shuttleboi
The $200K/year salary minus malpractice insurance?

..and the fact that lots of people have some really fvcked up teeth (and gums...and well..the their whole freakin mouth) so there is always work available.

 

[TheGizmo]

Originally posted by: Jadow
the hot dental girls that always work for dentists

word

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: PeteRoy
What makes a man decide to be a dentist?

Four of the five of the dentists I have known are sons of dentists and they pretty much took over the family business.

 

[AgentUnknown]

DDS in '06 May. It has better hours and pay than MD's on average.

 

[Aimster]

dentist can make more than 200k

400-600k if you got the skills

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Jadow
the hot dental girls that always work for dentists

hmm...there are a few at my dentist. some are older women too though.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

no offense, but why are dentists paid so much? It doesn't seem like dental school is particularly hard or being a dentist uses special skills/creativity that only a small fraction of the population has?

 

[jadinolf]

Probably got a peak at HIS dentist's income tax return.

 

[preslove]

I was in my dentist's waiting room paging through the local city's magazine and stopped at an article on local rich dudes and their boats. This one retired dentist had this sweet ass converted fishing trawler that he takes all over the carribean. The guy looked like he was in his mid-fifties.

 

[Slew Foot]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
no offense, but why are dentists paid so much? It doesn't seem like dental school is particularly hard or being a dentist uses special skills/creativity that only a small fraction of the population has?

Exactly why. Because it's not seen as "completely necessary", people pay cash for it. As opposed to medicine, where people bitch if they have to pay a $2 co payment because it's their right to healthcare. For some reason, no one has a right to "clean teeth", if you want it, you pay for it.

 

[GregGreen]

isn't dentristry school harder to get in than med school?

 

[Nikamichi]

Originally posted by: shuttleboi
The $200K/year salary minus malpractice insurance?

 

[ni4ni]

My cousin was one year away from graduating and becoming a dentist and then he decided he didn't want to do that anymore.

He decided to major in journalism.

 

[everman]

My dentist said he was a political science major. Since you can't do anything with that, he became a dentist.

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: everman
My dentist said he was a political science major. Since you can't do anything with that, he became a dentist.

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