Consider what a career in dentistry can offer you: service to others, balanced lifestyle, self-employment, earning potential, status and prestige and a variety of career options.

What’s Unique about Dentistry?

• One of the ten most trusted and ethical professions in America
• Flexibility to balance a professional and personal life
• Opportunity to be one’s own boss
and own a dental practice
• Personally rewarding profession
• Combines art and science

What Does a Dentist Do?

• Diagnose and treat diseases, injuries and malformations of the teeth and mouth
• Improve a patient’s appearance by using a variety of cosmetic dental procedures
• Perform surgical procedures such as implants, tissue grafts and extractions
• Educate patients on how to better care for their teeth and prevent oral disease
• Teach future dentists and dental hygienists
• Perform research directed to improving oral health and developing new treatment methods