What Am I Suppose To Get A Bachelors Degree In When I’m Going Into Orthodontics?
I want to go into orthodontics and i’m about to graduate high school… i know i’m suppose to get a bachelors degree, then go to dental school and then do 2-3 years of training… but i don’t know what exactly i’m suppose to get a bachelors degree in. Does anyone have any suggestions or comments or is going through this… i really need help
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There ‘are’ exceptions, in which, though you still have to undergo the dedicated coursework that prepares you for dental school, you need only do 2 years of undergraduate school work and then go directly to dental school.
And so in other words rather than undergoing the ‘entire’ 4-year bachelor-degree layout, you matriculate in a program that entails a concentrated, dedicated undergraduate 2 years only — then on to dental school direct. It bypasses the bachelor’s degree and is set up to allow you to undergo the D.D.S, or D.M.D, degree trajectory on completion.
There is still another modality in which you do a 4-year bachelor’s degree program for which the last 2 of the 4 years of the bachelor’s program are the first 2 years of medical or dental school. On completing the last 2 years of the bachelor’s degree but the first 2 of dental or medical school, the bachelor’s degree is then conferred while you will have already be preparing to enter your 3rd year of medical or dental school.
Such as these exist for those who wish to do this. It is little known. And such can be risky, indeed, but it does exist.
This is because one has to be very careful in going — in particular — the first alternative. Administrators and students and parents alike prefer not to chance it, for you have to know that going to dental school is truly and really what you are bent on pursuing and completing; otherwise you risk being left without either a bachelor or professional degree. See?
These are still little known methods and I believe are more commonly accepted routes to dental or medical school on the east coast of the United States.
Both these two alternatives remove 2 years from the overall time in spent in undergraduate-professional schools.
Colleges normally have a pre-dental program that you can look into. But really, you can major in anything you like, as long as you take the core courses required by most dental schools.
Start looking at brochures for the colleges you want to attend. Check out the pre-dental program and see what it consists of. And talk to couselors! They’ll be very helpful.
Good luck!
Other than a pre-med / pre-dental program, you could major in biology. I know that that’s what my old orthodontist did =]
Dentistry…..duhhh