It can be a mixed bag of who you get at one of the schools since you’re dealing with students. One of the things they look at from applicants is hand eye coordination and spatial awareness but that is just one of the many things. You can get the 95th percentile DAT and a 4.0 gpa but barely scraped by the boards for the physical aspects. It also depends on which school you go to. If you get care at one that has an endodontics specialty there's a good chance they'd want to try to do a root canal on it to save it even if it was rather complex.New dentists are terrible. Whatever you do don't go to dentistry schools for care. I went to Midwestern dentistry school in Illinois and regret it. All they want to do is pull teeth and replace with implants. I don't think they teach these students how to save teeth anymore. I'm 60 with all my teeth except for 2 crowns,one of which I had done at the school which ended up after 4 visits costing the same as if I had it done by a professional. They use cheap filling composite that fails and allows decay after only one year if you do get a cavity. I'd rather pay the little extra and have a professional job done by someone in private practice. Took me months to find a new dentist over 50 that was taught the right way
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