Dentistry As A Career Essay

The medicine and dentistry as a profession is looked upon with great respect and in awe all over the world. It is a noble profession as doctors are looked upon like GOD to heal sickness, diseases, treat physical, mental trauma and relieve pain. Acquiring a doctor’s degree is the result of loads of hard work in academics along with burning midnight oil coupled with many years of training costing their parents or them a fortune. Usually a bachelor’s degree in dentistry or medicine takes about 5 – 5.5 years, but in today’s fiercely competitive world that degree alone is not enough to have a successful career and many have to opt for a Master’s degree like an M.D.S. or an M.D. which usually takes another 3 years. This isn’t the end as well as there are specializations in various fields for doctors and for dentists as well including dental implantology, rotary endodontics, lasers to name a few. These specialized courses take time and are expensive as well. Some want to pursue higher studies abroad which make up an overall costly investment. Most doctors’ friends are 22-23 when they finish

Some of them, therefore, think they can make great monetary decisions too, but most of them make mistakes (read – blunders) leading to huge financial losses sometimes. Being high-income earners, dentists sometimes fall into the lure of living life lavishly and usually beyond their means. Be it a credit card installment or paying back the student loan installment, poor debt management habits quickly forge a significant problem for us. Many of us do not buy enough insurance at the right time to cover us and our family and sometimes, it is too late to realize this in life that our finances are not well controlled and managed. When we buy insurance at a later age, it becomes expensive. Some of us are smart enough to buy