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Posted by Matthew Mannella
Dentistry is often a family business. When I ask my class, nearly a quarter of my classmates have immediate relatives who are dentists. I... Read more...
Amidst exams, preclinical work, and extracurricular activities, dental school is a grueling four years. It requires both hard work and... Read more...
Posted by Tyler Hanks
How can we consistently engage our patients in their oral health? Why should we want to engage and involve them in treatment and prevention... Read more...
Posted by Karen Ben-Elazar
       As dental students, we are constantly faced with hypotheticals, conjectural paradigms of clinical... Read more...
Posted by Emma Guzman
By Emma Guzman, DDS I have always had a passion for going overseas and providing dental services to those in need. During my undergraduate... Read more...
13 Tips for Thriving in Your Third Year   It's been said that the first two years of dental school are about learning how... Read more...
Posted by THE NEXTDDS
As a student of Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, I am offered living accommodations a mere 100 yards from the front door of the dental school. Read more...
We want to be creative as individuals and dental professionals. We want our organizations to be innovative. We want to see breakthroughs in... Read more...
Vicodin, one of the most popular and routinely prescribed analgesic drugs in dentistry, has become a little tougher to acquire. In a recent... Read more...
The last blog post that I wrote was about the ethics of dental volunteering. At the time, I may have been on the side that says that most of... Read more...
Over the past year in clinic, there have been several instances when I was asked by patients which toothpaste, toothbrush, or dental gizmo... Read more...
    I am proud to be a future dentist. I love the field that I have chosen, and cannot wait to work... Read more...
Posted by David Hatch
Posted by Michael Petrides
There are excessive amounts of NBDE Part 1 review materials available to students. The most common materials are online review courses,... Read more...
Posted by Nicole Antol
Recently at the University of Washington School of Dentistry, we had a panel of guest speakers come to talk to us about the different... Read more...
Last week we had our white coat fitting for our upcoming ceremony in June. As I stood in line with my classmates preparing to try on my coat... Read more...
          The role of the dentist is often misinterpreted. Most people believe that the... Read more...
Posted by Natalie Cantral
    I’m sure everyone has heard the saying, “Happy wife, happy life.” The same sort of saying could be... Read more...
Throughout my childhood, I had always heard so much about the Special Olympics program, which allows athletes of all ages with special needs to... Read more...
Posted by Justine Bednarski
As a third year in dental school, one of the most difficult tasks in clinic is gauging the longevity of certain teeth. This past week in our... Read more...
The newest buzz in social media regarding dental care has been the use of activated charcoal for tooth whitening. Initially, I deemed it... Read more...
Posted by Yinet Garcia de Castro
    Hypertension is one of the most common diseases encountered in a dental practice. Nowadays... Read more...
Posted by Giuliana DiPiazza
There are several ways dentists can become licensed in the United States depending on where they want to practice. The different pathways to... Read more...
Switching over from simulation clinic to clinic has been a whirlwind of change. I was quick to learn that I could not use my patient’s head... Read more...
I asked the students I was interviewing for the class of 2021, “Why do you want to go into dentistry?” Being on the other side of... Read more...
You only get to experience your 20's once in your life -- a time of learning and exploration. As many of you know, I moved to Columbus on... Read more...
    Last week, my patient presented to dental clinic for the extraction of tooth #12. As this was my first... Read more...
The junctional epithelium surrounds the tooth. It is composed of stratified squamous non-keratinized epithelium. It is attached on one surface... Read more...
Posted by Megan Golia
It’s hard to put your entire life’s accomplishments and activities on one piece of paper. At first, building your curriculum vita (CV) may... Read more...
In 2006, the Council on Clinical Affairs coined the term “dental home” to describe the ongoing relationship between the dentist and the... Read more...
Posted by Raven Grant
As aspiring dentists, we’re taught to observe and recognize patterns, both in and out of the classroom, lab, and operatory. I’d like to take... Read more...
Growing up, parents and mentors always chirped in my ear—the best time to learn something new is now. Looking back on it, I wish I had listened. Read more...
Posted by Jamie Molina
     During dental school, our experience is shaped by a multitude of areas – didactic work, clinical... Read more...
Posted by Andrew Bertagna
Part 1 of the National Board of the Dental Examiner is an eight-hour examination consisting of 400 questions probing across a broad range of... Read more...
Posted by Katie Hunt
         Dental school is similar to a really good movie, in my opinion.... Read more...
 You study every waking minute for the DAT, you write draft after draft of your personal statement, and you proofread your application... Read more...
Posted by Nancy Lyn Wilson
This blog post has been really hard for me to compose.  Grief is an incredibly individualized and personal experience, so I don’t claim... Read more...
Posted by Monique Belin
As everyone knows, if you ask three different dentists for their opinion on how to treatment plan a patient you will get three different answers! Read more...
Posted by Sruthi Satishchandran
If you had a million dollars, what would you invest in: developing an affordable treatment for diabetes, or conducting research on how... Read more...
Well…I just finished taking the NBDE I just two weeks ago. The exam was certaintly difficult but mostly I am just feeling relieved to be done... Read more...
Posted by Emily Yang
Students today have so much equipment at their disposal. From school textbooks and notepads to clinical wear and tools, our backpacks are... Read more...
Posted by Clayton Jackson
For most couples, the first year of marriage is described as tough and challenging. The majority of couples who “survive” their first... Read more...
Looking back at when I was a D1, all I ever hoped and strived for was the day I would start clinic. That day for me occurred a few months ago,... Read more...
Autism is a group of complex disorders of brain development, which is characterized by social interaction difficulties, repetitive behaviors... Read more...
Posted by Harjot Sangha
Pursuing a degree in higher education comes with many costs, namely a financial cost. It is inevitable that through this journey we will... Read more...
In a dental practice, a dentist will see several smokers on a regular basis. Although smoking causes 1 in 5 deaths in the United States every... Read more...
Amidst the shuffle of exams, papers, and challenges that come paired with the joys of completing an undergraduate degree, pre-dental students... Read more...
The week after orientation, bright posters stood tall upon tables encircling the common area of the Health Professions Division building of my... Read more...
Student debt is at an all time high, which includes dental students.   The average dental student graduates with $250,000... Read more...