///Dental school is a nightmare and probably the most difficult of any professional school (including law, medicine, science/eng PhD, etc.). Essentially, you are learning medicine and dental surgery at once (minus clerkships of medical school). Oral and maxillofacial surgeons who complete both dental and medical school often say that the 2 years of med school they are required to take during residency for the MD are like a vacation compared to everything else.///
This is the comment often made made by those double qualified (Med plus Dent). Dentistry is the more demanding course.
It may be due to the fact that dental student need to treat their own patients starting from their clinical year. Unlike their medical counterpart, they only need to observe.
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