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Noone, including newbie has said there is anything wrong with European
dental schools or those dentists. You aren't reading for content, and
he has a little less patience with someone on a rant.

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guess so.

Steve

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:17:20 -0400, tenthmed <tenthmed[at]biznet.com>
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Suspect that an 'accreditation committee' makes this determination.
Actually doubt it means much, prolly a donation thingy.
There a student that transferred from Harvard, said the focus was on
'research' and clinical training was lacking there. Hence the move.
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Agree on that.
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That can't be true, just by definition.

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This is true of any field of study, and any individual.
However, you cannot decide to have 'talent' , 'good eyesight'
nor 'good hand-eye co-ordination'.

For example, there are a plethora of wannabe guitar players.
There are few 'stars' and even fewer 'true masters'.
Same is true of any musical instrument.

Why would dentistry be any different ?

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What ?!? you are gonna drop out of the conversation ?

Besides that, you can be book smart and have 4 legs instead of 2 hands and
two legs.

When you work with 2 legs, you are a bad dentist (even with a 4.0 GPA from
the best school in the world)

Good dentistry requires patience, ethics and skills.

That is one huge difference between DDS and MD, as DDS , you need manual
dexterity- see those "dentists" with no clue about molar endo


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I agree, not exactly the same, but I am sure you can find good dentists
even in developing countries.

I went to school in Western Europe, , soon after I moved to the US , the
NDBE 1 and 2 were a piece of cake, quite similar with what I studied back
home, and knowing that some students fail them WHILE in dental school ( when
everything is fresh in your head) makes me believe that US schools are NOT
better than European schools

But there are jerks like newbie[at]bix.net who will always look down on an
European dentists , for example.

By the way, am I the only one with a real email address here?

ca_dds[at]yahoo.com


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CA-DDS has been ranting about worldwide dental education. One of the
repliers stated that he/she had gone to the best dental school in the
US. IIRC, Temple and NYU were had their accreditation "on probation" in
the late 1970's. PENN and Harvard are overrated - in my hands-on, boots
on the ground, direct experience.

So which is it. Seems that North Carolina had the "best" rating in the
'70's. How about today? I say that the US/Canada schools are all the
same, each with various strengths and weaknesses i.e academics,
research, clinical experience, and that ratings are always going to be
very subjective.

IMO, in the final analysis, the schools are all the same - it's the
individual dentist who decides what he does with his basic education and
how good he will be.

Discuss amongst yourselves.