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Thank you SO VERY MUCH, my friend!!

I mean it’s crazy how much things change in four years

Yeah pretty much!! Later in dental school, we didn’t have nearly as much didactic work to do and therefore less organization of courses etc. But I did still have to organize everything in my life, and I made other videos showing how I did that!

Thanks for the question! 4 years of undergraduate studies to earn a bachelors degree (not strictly required but highly encouraged) and 4 years of dental school to become a DDS or DMD. Additional specialty training can take place after dental school for anywhere from 1-6 extra years depending on the specialty.

Not really! I would just enjoy the summer! Plus you won’t have all the material you will be tested on throughout the year so I honestly just see this as overworking yourself!

Thanks for watching and commenting!! Congrats on making it to year 3! If your dental school experience is like mine was, year 3 marks the beginning of your time in clinic and you will have less didactic coursework. You will still have coursework though so year 3 becomes much more about balancing everything. I would just give you the general advice of stay organized in every aspect of dental school. Organize your clinic supplies, clinic schedule, PowerPoints, coursework schedule, etc. This usually takes a few hours at the beginning of the semester but it’s highly worth it to have something to reference that can keep you on track!

You are welcome! Thank you!!

This is a great question Brad and I hope to really dive into this topic in future videos! I am buying my dad out of his portion of his dental practice. He is essentially becoming a contractor of our business and will continue to do dentistry but will take on an easier role while I will become a partner. Obviously, this is a great gift to me and something I never want to take for granted as much new graduates don’t have the opportunity to buy a practice right out of school. That being said there are plenty of viable options for working after school and dentists are still sought after professionals. I think what I’ll do is commission that advice of some of my friends a few months after everyone has started working and put together a list of options and the pros and cons of those options in a video.

I can’t wait to hear about the business side of it. My son, a D1 has an aunt that has a single dentist practice and owns her own custom built building and she is looking to retire. I am pretty certain she would sell to him and give him some favorable financing, on both the practice and the building. I just think it is too early for him to make any kind of decisions, he is still wanting to explore the various specialties and I’m not sure he wants to move to where her clinic is. But I would love to hear your take on being able to walk into and up and running profitable practice with owner financing on the practice and building. I’m not even sure banks would finance a new dentist with lots of school loans and then $1m for a building and $1m for the practice. Any videos on your insight of buying into a family members clinic, the various buy out structures and may any hurdles that you were able to overcome come. I totally understand stand that while yall are in school and being pushed to your max, four years feels like a life time, but for us parents those 4 years are like a drop in the bucket. Any cool videos on your transition into the real world would be amazing. I was told that as a new dentist production is much slower so commissions are lower. Could you possible interview some of your friends that may have gone corporate and compare and contrast their new experience with yours. So many video ideas. As a father I want to be as well versed as possible so I am able to help my son in any way I can.

Praise the Lord! The Catholic Church doesn’t teach that we have to go through a priest to get to Jesus! That is a misconception of Catholic teaching. The Church teaches that Jesus gave a special priestly role to his twelve apostles and that they then passed down that special role to other men as is evidenced in the replacement of Judas by Matthias by the guidance of the Holy Spirit in Acts Chapter 1. God created the priestly order with Adam in Genesis and it didn’t end with Jesus. Jesus is our High Priest and He established a new order of priests in His new covenant to offer the most important sacrifice in history: The Eucharist which is the new and eternal covenant. Check out Pints with Aquinas on CZcams to learn more! Thanks for the comment and God bless!