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Studying Dentistry in Nigeria: Requirements, Challenges & Job Opportunities
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Jul 23, 2025
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All right. Good afternoon.
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Yeah, good afternoon.
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What was your name, department, and
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level?
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All right. My name is Mike Obuna and I'm
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in 600 level dentistry.
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Wow. 600 level. That means you be at
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this university for 6 years or even
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7 years to be precise.
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So tell me what was your experience so
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far studying dentistry as a course in
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university?
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Man,
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it has been hectic cuz
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you know we started from NSK and then we
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came to UNK here and then we're here
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now. So it has been a long journey
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you know through this um through like
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for my stay in dentistry.
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Okay. Okay. So there's usually this from
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my from what I've heard and interviews
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there's usually this overlap between
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medicine and surgery and dentistry. So
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can you like differentiate the two?
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Okay. If I'm to differentiate between
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medicine and dentistry I would tell you
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that dentistry is just a specialty in
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medicine.
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Okay. If you if you like dentistry is a
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specialy because initially dentistry was
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under the faculty of medical sciences
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before it became a faculty on its own
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you understand so dentistry is just um I
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will call it a sister faculty now
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is a faculty on its own it's it's that
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um department or that faculty that um
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deals with the oral cavity things that
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have to do with the most pathology
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surgery everything that has to do with
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the oral cavity that's what dentistry
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entails Okay. So, but why did you decide
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to study dentistry?
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I decided to study dentistry because
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it's a unique course and it gives me
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that time to think about other things.
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It's not as demanding as medicine.
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Okay.
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And surgery, not as demanding as that.
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Okay. So, have you been able to like do
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other things apart from your academics?
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Maybe decide also a business.
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Uh for now as a student, I don't think
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it's giving me that chance to do those
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things. You understand?
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Okay. But as I if I start my like my
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practice, I think it's going to give me
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that chance to do all the things I want
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to do.
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So talking about practices, practice,
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talking about practice, what are the job
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opportunities that are available for
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graduates of this course?
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Uh there are a lot of things you can
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become if you if we're talking about
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specialties now or even before you
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become a special like a specialist,
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you can start doing little little things
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like scaling and polishing,
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restorations. If you have a hole in your
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teeth, we can even go ahead as doing
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extractions. You understand? If you come
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with a pain and you can go ahead and do
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extractions. But aside that for
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specialties, we have different
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specialties. We have oral surgeons.
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We have um um consultants in
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restoration, restorative dentistry. We
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have consultant preventative dentistry.
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We have even CDH and we have consultant
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in all those places. So
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there's a wide variety of things you can
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do.
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All right. Thank you for that
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explanation. And so for the past six 7
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years, have you had any difficult uh
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time experience maybe your exams uh that
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is worth sharing?
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Oh my god.
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I've had um a lot of ups and downs
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through this um through this day in
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dentist history. You know, there was
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this time I I even like fell off cuz I
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was I was this brilliant guy. Although
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I'm still brilliant but there was this
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time I had to like I fell off not
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because of anything but I I wanted to
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like chase other things. I wanted to
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like make money too but dentistry was is
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this demanding course. You don't you
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can't be doing you can't be making money
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and be full time.
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Exactly. And you're trying to combine it
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is really really hard. So I had to like
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you know four but now I'm back again and
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I'm going for it.
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Okay. That is nice. So what advice do
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you have for someone that wants to study
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dentistry at the university? Um if you
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want to study dentistry in the
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university
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just love the course
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okay
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it's a beautiful course I'm going to
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like tell you
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like if you're thinking that maybe you
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want to do medicine and surgery e and
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maybe you are having these doubts that
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okay doing dentistry does is going to
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make you less of a person I think that's
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a lie if you are doing dentistry you're
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also a doctor you understand you're also
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a doctor if you're doing I don't know if
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you know about that if you're doing
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dentistry you're a s you can become a
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surgeon too. You can do everything. We
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even do oral medicine.
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Like we do oral medicine, we do oral
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surgery. You understand? So we do
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everything. You understand? So if you
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like for those that want to like study
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dentistry, I'll encourage you to put
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your mind in it. Love it. It's a good
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course. You're going to enjoy it.
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Okay. Okay. So so far you've been
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talking about how rigorous and
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challenging the course can be. So my
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question is there are students that
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let's say average they they perform aely
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in secondary school. they did not get a
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let's say the a very solid foundation
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and they've eventually found themselves
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in this faculty. So is it possible for
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an average students to study dentistry
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and dentistry and be successful?
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Obviously like if you check most of the
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people in final year I don't think we
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have everybody like everybody that in
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final year currently
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they were not really smart like that in
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secondary school. You understand? So an
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average person can study dentistry cuz
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when you come here you everybody will be
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on the same in the same shoes you
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understand everybody like the learning
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and everything you learn everything from
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the scratch
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you understand so I don't an average
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person can study dentistry
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as long as you have the motivation
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motivation exactly the determination you
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will study dentistry you just have to
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have that determination it's very
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important
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okay thank you very much thank you I
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really appreciate and I wish you all the
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best
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all right thank Thanks.
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