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Join me in this insightful interview as I sit down with doc_frosh, a final-year dentistry student, who breaks down everything you need to know about pursuing a career in dentistry.
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all right good afternoon what's your
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name department and level okay my name
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is Chukuma they call me Dala i mean
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Sunday level dentistry wow nice nice so
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what is dentistry as a course in the
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university okay dentistry is is a branch
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of science basically medical science
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that has to do that study the like they
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tend to make diagnosis of the disease of
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the oral cavity you get and they tend to
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treat it too so dentist are doctors that
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treat disease of the oral cavity okay so
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but why did you decide to study
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dentistry okay since I was young I
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wanted to be a doctor but then I don't
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have I don't know how to like do a lot
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of work i like I like when I was young I
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wanted to be a doctor but I I was
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looking for a field that will make me a
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doctor without having to work too much
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so yes so in dentistry we have work life
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balance and the money is also there so I
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chose dentistry yes there's money in it
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and you have the right to be you're a
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doctor you tend to have money and the
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work the work and life balance you get
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okay okay so as a 600 level student
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would you say dentistry is less rigorous
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than medicine and surgery no no no of
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academics
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do you mean rigorous okay like more like
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more demanding okay yes for me the when
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it comes to the like academic part the
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academic part like when has to do with
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reading i think we have a lot of things
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to do in dentist three get we read a lot
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of like for examples now we write up to
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like six MB medical board exams you get
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in dentistry compared to the medical
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counterpart that write only four you get
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so we tend to read and write exams every
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time like as intervals you're always
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writing exams you get so it's more
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rigorous study dentistry okay compared
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to medicine you get can can you quickly
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like break down this uh MBBS exam like
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the second one the third one at what
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level do you sit for them okay okay
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basically like I said earlier we have
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six professional exams right in dentist
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Okay um the first one is usually called
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second BDS part A which is equivalent to
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second NB then that that one we write
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anatomy physiology and biochemistry you
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get then the second BDS part B we do
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oral biology where we tend to learn the
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basics of the structures of the mouth
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the anatomy of the mouth the
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biochemistry and the physiology of the
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mouth then we have third MB third BDS we
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call it third BDS part A where we learn
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try to learn pharmacology and pathology
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you get with they call it third MB you
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know in medicine you get then we have
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fourth BDS fourth BDS that's when we
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write our medicine and surgery exam you
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get after after BS we then go to write
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third MB pass B wow which is post tech
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opt and science of dental materials then
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in final year write BDS making total of
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six professional exams In final year
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right we go through 10 departments but
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it is divided into five like it is like
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how do I put it it's comped into five
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units you get but it's 10 in general 10
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in general yeah yeah and all of these
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exam you have to pass these exams yes
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you have to pass them at least with 50
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in each of them 50 if you fail one you
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given a a chance to recit it in next 3
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months but if you fail the receipts you
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join the next class below so what has
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been your study strategy like how have
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you survived so far till your final year
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okay me like I I like I said I'm I'm
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kind of social person you get i I tend
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to like I play I have my social lives
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you get so what I do is that I start
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earlier you get maybe if the semester is
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starting this month I start reading a
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month before try to cover you get so
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towards my exam period I'm I'm just
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revising you get so you get I just have
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so I have time to do other things I want
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to do with my life too you get yes so
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you just me mentioned about being a
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social person so that means it's
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possible to combine dentistry with
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extracurricular activities or side
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hustle something like that actually I
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don't I don't actually have a side
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hustle but then lot of people combine
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with stuff like that with other stuffs
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like they do to make money so it depend
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on how you allocate your time to things
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but if you're combining it with
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businesses you don't expect to have good
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performance like that have some maybe
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some receipts and be passing you get
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some people pass targets with businesses
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too but it's not actually easy to do it
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you get so your honor has been you have
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been engaged in extracurricular
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activities like like football table
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tennis I play table tennis very very
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well you get it takes a lot of my time
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you get I love it it's kind of sport I I
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have interest in you get so football I
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play football too then I use social
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media a lot get cuz I yes I tend to like
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engage you create content on social
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media like I threads you get spaces on
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Twitter you get kind of stuff you want
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to like maybe those that are watching
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they just want to see what your social
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media uh contents like okay yes I just
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just medical content I talk about
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dentistry a lot you get the medical
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career how they pay us you get so how
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can they what's your handle like okay my
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Twitter my Twitter handle is doc fro and
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my handle is also doc fro can you just
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spell it dro d o c f o h fro okay okay
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thank you so uh what advice do you have
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for someone that wants to study
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dentistry in Nigeria okay basically If
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you want to study dentist Nigeria you
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should have passion for dentistry if you
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don't have passion don't come here if
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it's if if it's for money there's the
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money there used to be money in
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dentistry but now it's not as much as
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before so you need you need something
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that will drive you you need a drive for
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me it's passion that's big that's why
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I'm here you get if you have the passion
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to be a dentist you should come here but
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if you don't have the passion I don't
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think you should be here you get So what
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are the opportunities available like
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where can you work as a dentist okay
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basically as a dentist you can work in
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any hospital that has a dental clinic
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you get because we are we are like a
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segment of med segment of the healthcare
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on our own we have our own clinic where
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we do our own diagnosis so you can work
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in any hospital that has a dental um
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clinic you get a dental clinic or dental
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hospital in it you get it can be federal
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government state government or anyone
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private sector okay okay so before we
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let you go is has there been any
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challenging experience you've had so far
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uh based on academics okay basically not
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really not really just that there's no
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much money you get we tend to manage the
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one we have you get in this faculty you
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need money because you have you have to
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buy some stuffs like dentist we have a
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lot of instruments to buy on our own
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personal instrument that the school does
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not provide for us so you need to have
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money you get you need to have money to
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buy those stuffs and sometimes it can be
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challenging sometimes you you buy a lot
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and your parents will be doubting that
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you're not using the money to do what
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you want to do you get the demand demand
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yes you always ask for money i want to
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buy this one i want to buy this one i
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want to buy this one yeah
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thank you very much she really
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appreciate and we wish you success all
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right thank you
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