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Thinking about a career in dentistry? 🦷 This video is your ultimate guide to the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) degree! We cover everything from what to expect in the curriculum, to career prospects, and tips for getting into dental school. Plus, we sat down with a final-year dentistry student to get their firsthand insights and advice! Watch now to see if dentistry is the right path for you!
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all right good afternoon good afternoon
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uh what was the name department and
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level okay my name is Israel Duggo i'm a
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final year student of dentistry wow wow
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wow nice to meet you Israel so how many
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years is dentistry as a course in
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university okay dentistry is a six year
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program wow so you've been here at this
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university for 6 years actually it's
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like 7 years now because of covid-19
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lockdown and as strike okay okay so what
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is dentistry as a course you know in the
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university okay dentistry basically
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means study of the oral cavity uh dis
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and the diseases affect them and how you
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treat those diseases so we are doctors
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of the oral cavity everything concerning
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the oral cavity and disease that have
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oral man manifestations that's what we
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do in dentistry okay so but why did you
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decide to study dentistry okay i always
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wanted to study medicine okay then
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during
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my my postsecary school period when I
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was preparing for jam I met a dental
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student that inspired me i don't know
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anything about
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dentistry before before then so the guy
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inspired me i research more about the
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course and during that time everybody
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was just in medicine and surgery
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medicine and surgery in in jam tutorial
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center i wanted to do something
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different so I did change of course to
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dentistry when I have already registered
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for medicine during my jam that's why I
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chose dentistry wow wow interesting
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interesting so dentistry and medicine
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they are interrelated would you say so
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honestly they're interrelated there are
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many disease that have oral
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manifestations somebody has something
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like HIV may present to the clinic and
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dentist will be able to find out that
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person have HIV and there are some
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disease of the oral cavity that can
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spread like somebody have oral cancer if
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a dentist notice on time the dentist
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will prevent it from spreading to other
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vital organs that's the that's the link
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there are many links but yeah that's the
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summary are dentist dentists are they
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also surgeons yeah dentistry like
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medicine like medicine and surgery have
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branches there's a branch of dentistry
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we call oral surgery okay yeah that that
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the ones that treat victims of trauma
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trauma patients like someone had an
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accident and crash his jaw face the oral
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surgeons will take care of it or you
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want you have oral cancer
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uh is oral surgeons that will take care
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of it okay okay so since you've we've
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agreed that dentistry and medicine and
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surgery they interrelated now everybody
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knows that medicine and surgery is a
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very tedious course how is it like for
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dentistry
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honestly I would say
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that everything is sad anything
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academics is sad but I would say that
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dentist will tougher like you can ask my
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our medical
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counterart because from our first year
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to for to fourth year we do the we do
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the same thing we also have to do
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additional additional thing because in
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our second year we take a course called
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oral biology before we we take our
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second professional exam okay so after
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then when you enter our fifth year we
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have to do medicine and surgery in our
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500 level this an exit exam that is what
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those study do in final year we do it in
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500 level 500 level before doing
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dentistry proper wow yeah so we have to
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do everything they do
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aside which is gynecology and pediatrics
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yeah so have you have you had any
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challenge so far like personally
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academically from your first year till
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now
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yeah but they
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say is how you bounce back that matters
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yeah sometime have low test scores and
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everything but you have to find
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motivation have to they say it's end
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just the mean yeah just Yeah okay so as
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a dentistry student is it possible to
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know let's say engage in extracurricular
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activities like politics no side hustle
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business and stuff like that yeah it's
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possible it depends on how you able it
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depends on the individual if you can
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multitask and if you are disciplined
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good time management you can do that
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okay so as a final year student how
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would you describe your typical day like
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how does your day start do you go for
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lectures or you go for clinical posting
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like how does it work yeah final year is
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the most challenging year a typical day
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you just wake up me personally I will
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read head to class from class to clinic
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i spend four hours in clinic and then I
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go back to class then from Monday to
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Friday then Saturdays we have to do
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online lectures sometimes you have to do
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outreaches wow uh but it's fun because
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it's just about challenging yourself and
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and doing things you never expect you
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would do okay so what are the job
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opportunities available for dentists
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yeah job opportunities for dentists are
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enormous you can
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work as a dentist in the in the clinic
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you can work as a public health expert
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okay you can decide to work with NOS's
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you may you can also become an
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academician that you do your masters in
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other field and yeah there are many job
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opportunities even in military and
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military and police like you can do
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direct service in military and become a
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military doctor yeah oh excellent all
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right excellent so the last question I
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have is what advice do you have for
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someone that wants to study dentistry uh
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in university here in Nigeria okay my
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advice someone that wants to study
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dentistry that is a tedious process you
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just have to look at the bigger picture
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what you are going to achieve at the end
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because it's a course that will test
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your limit it's like a military train it
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takes your discipline and other aspects
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of yeah very rigorous other aspects of
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your life just for you to see the bigger
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picture that you're going to be a doctor
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at the end of the day and that's just it
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all right thank you very much carly
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appreciate to wish you success in your
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future endeavors
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