-: Yeah, there's actually a pre-dental,
a lot of schools have a pre-dental curriculum
that gets all the requirements.
There are certain requirements that you have to have
for dental school.
And there's, a lot of the schools have a pre-dental club
where like minded kids are together
and they can help each other talk it out.
Yes, so the first two years there's a lot of lectures.
And there are a lot of laboratories as well.
You're getting involved in doing the procedures,
but not on people,
but on models and so forth.
They have more sophisticated ways to do than I had it,
where they actually have a model, a typodont
that has cheeks and everything
so that it makes it more lifelike.
So that's the first two years.
And then the next two years, they spend
I guess, two and half or three days in the clinic
treating patients and going on further
with lectures and so forth, didactic work.
I think a lot of the schools today require you
to have some shadowing where you go to an office
and shadow a dentist.
I've been interviewing some students
who are applying for admission to the dental school.
So they've had, some of them have had varied
shadowing experience.
Some of them over a couple years that they'll
visit a dental office, or varied dental offices.
And that's really a great thing.
I did not do that when I was,
before I went to dental school.
Well there are lots of things.
It's academics, yeah definitely.
Somebody who can work with their hands
and like to do that, have some creativity.
And like to work with people.
It's a, people in a dental office
are not always at their best.
They're nervous and sometimes they act out a little bit
because of that and it's, you need somebody
who has some empathy and just like people.