how long does it take to go from a dental hygienist to a dentist?
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You have to already have your BS degree in one of the science.You then must enter dental school, and finish the 4 year course to graduate with a DDS, or DMD degree. Then you got  to intern as medical doctors do (at least 1 yr.).  You must also pass the state licensing board to practice.You may be looking at least 5-7 years of hard work and studying, depending on your education credentials you now possess.
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ONCE AGAIN, ANOTHER UNEDUCATED ANSWER FROM A DENTAL HYGIENIST.\n\nI am a dentist.\n\nPlease disregard the answer from the dental hygienist.  Hygienists, as you may know, go to school for two years.  They learn a smattering of anatomy, a dash of pharmacology, a splash of microbiology, and the tiniest hint about dental procedures.  Ultimately, their job is to clean teeth and gums.  Yet here we have a hygienist, who doesn't know squat about bone grafting, telling you that "freez-dried" bone is a suitable substitute for a hip graft.\n\nThe doctor who has diagnosed your problem and has decided on the hip graft is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon.  They attend four years of college, four years of dental school, and four to six years of surgery residency after dental school.  Hygienists may or may not even have bachelors degrees, and hygiene school is two measely years.  I think it's safe to say that the oral surgeon is a thousand times more educated than the hygienist, and for a hygienist to question the clinical judgment of an oral surgeon is like a toddler questioning the manner in which his parents do their taxes.  As a dentist, I'd think twice about questioning the clinical judgment of an oral surgeon.\n\nThere are a variety of bone grafting materials, and each has its purpose.  Generally, hip grafts are ASIC grafts: Anterior Superior Iliac Crest grafts.  Bone can be harvested elsewhere from the hip, however.  Often times, some of the hard cortical bone is harvested along with the softer cancellous bone beneath.  The benefits of using real bone, especially when there are hard cortical pieces, are very clear.  Obviously, the hygienist doesn't have a stinking clue what they are....as expected.\n\nOften times, when increased height of the jaw bone is desired, a hard piece of real bone grafted to the mandible is preferable as it is less likely to erode away resorb.  Furthermore, by using real bone, you are getting the benefit of all the existing cells found within bone (osteoblasts, osteoclasts, osteoprogenitor cells, platelets and its PDGF, etc.), and bone growth (i.e. success of the graft) is more predictable and pronounced.\n\nFreeze-dried bone works fine in many cases, but the problem with it is that it is very granular and can move easily.  If you're trying to add vertical height to the alveolar bone in your jaw, it's not a very good material.  Furthermore, freeze-dried bone serves as a framework upon which bone will grow, not as an actual bone replacement.  Your body must grow bone into it.  It's a very different process than using actual live bone.\n\nAs far as walking goes, yes, you should be able to walk.  In fact, they generally want you up and walking the following day after the surgery.  If you can't, they do what they can to make it so you can.\n\nOne of the risks of the graft (other than the standard risk of infection, hematoma, scarring, etc.) is damage to the lateral femoral nerve, which supplies sensation to the side of your thigh, resulting in anesthesia or paresthesia.\n\nGood luck.  I've taken part in this type of surgery before, and have managed the post-operative care for these patients.  They generally do quite well.
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Hospital dentistry falls under both.  Some dentist go to school for another few years so they can perform hopital dentistry.  Yeah, three more years of school!.... They will bill your Dental Insuanrce or Dental procedure and Medical for the hospital stay.
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If you mean that the dentist recommended a deep cleaning for you (also known as Scaling & root planning), here are the steps:\n1) Usually the hygenist will get you numb on one side of your mouth (either right or left side)\n2) They will scale your teeth, usually below the gum line (that's why they get you numb)\n3) Usually the hygenist will recommend that you come back within two weeks to finish the other side.
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i believe that dentistry takes the shortest time (5 yrs+ 1 practical training) but i guess it differs from one place to another. but i have to warn u that it's not easy. my fiance is a dentist and it's hard for both of us to handle it. if u want to literally help people, go for red cross. many of them require u to know first aid only and u can master that in a couple of short courses.\n\ngood luck:)
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Go to dental. a few years and a lot of money
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You need to do a qualifying program.  Here is the website for the one at Western Ontario: http://www.schulich.uwo.ca/Dentistry/QualifyingProgram/
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Check your local area for a 'College of Dentistry and/or 'Dental Hygienists'. Schools are usually looking for patients for their students to practice on. The appointment time will last longer than a fully-trained Dentist, however there is usually little or no charge. The student will also be under the guidance of their instructor, so no, you won't be left with someone 'unqualified'. Good luck!
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sounds like you have a good program going on- just add i see my hygienist twice a year and it'd be perfect
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Dentistry is good. I'm not sure how it is in the States, but here you can (and must) practice dentistry with only an undergraduate degree. You will not be accepted into a doctorate degree without at least 8 years' clinical experience, if memory serves me correctly.\n\nBut you do have to ask yourself if you want to spend the rest of your professional life staring into people's mouths, especially when many of them will have bad breath and a lot of them will only have come to you because they have a problem and haven't had a checkup in years.
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Specialize in cosmetic dentistry, kind of like plastic surgeons of the dental world
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Dentistry is a bit difficult field, but if you pass out, you earn in gold. If you are patient enough to wait for 10 years, then you must try going
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the cost is about 1800-2200 dollars per tooth. It takes about 9 months to a year to complete. You can have all your teeth done if you have the money. Once again you can have them all done, but dentist would do them in stages, say top first then bottom, you will use a temporary denture until the gums heal.
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go to the dentist and have a thorough cleaning by the hygienist.  Then,  be sure to brush and floss every day.
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First you have to get all of your prerequisites you usually do that and obtain your bachelors degree, then you go to dental school for 4 years, after that you go to school to be an orthodontist. All in all it can take you 9-10 yrs. to be an orthodontist.
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And, it might seem like our job isn't that hard, but the things we have to know! Wow! We're not just tooth-scrapers. We need to be able to look at medications that a patient is on and know how our anesthesia will react with those meds... we need to be able to look at a sore in the mouth and relay to the dentist what it might be... we need to be able to take and develop xrays and see possible problems in those xrays. There is a lot of training before a person can be a dental hygienist, and school is expensive. If we weren't paid well, we'd never pay off our student loans!
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I'm currently going through a dental hygiene regime and what i have to do its brush each tooth for at least 5 secs each and then brush the gums in a circling motion (to gain healthier gums) then do a rough once over on my teeth for about 2 mins, i then have to floss each tooth going up and down 5 times, then i have to rinse my mouth with mouthwash for 2 mins swishing it back and forth thru my teeth then use a tongue cleaner (because apparently even tho u have brushed your teeth bacteria still stays on your tongue) then rinse with water and repeat the tongue cleaner and rinse 5 times then im done. this is to gain healthy strong teeth and gums. as i am preparing for a brace to be put on and i have weak gums. It is easier to use an electric toothbrush. Hope this helps.