🎓Walking out of dental college with a degree in hand feels like the start of something big.
You’ve spent years studying, passing exams, and completing clinical requirements.
But for many fresh graduates, that excitement quickly meets reality.
And it’s not always pretty.
A big part of the problem lies in what happens before graduation.
Many institutions still don’t have basic equipment in working condition, let alone modern tools like CAD/CAM, lasers, or digital scanners.
You might hear lectures about implants or aligners, but you won’t touch them until you pay extra after graduation.
So when a fresher enters the real world, especially in a private practice, they’re at a disadvantage.
Clinics want someone who can work independently from day one.
But how can you if you’ve never even seen half the equipment they use?
The result? Freshers are often undervalued, underpaid, or sidelined.
And to bridge that gap, they end up spending more.đź’¸
Just like students pay for tuitions during school, dentists now pay for webinars, hands-on workshops, and training programs to learn skills they should have had the opportunity to practice during college itself.
It’s not that these extra learnings are bad. In fact, they can be great.
But they should be an addition to what we learn in college, not a replacement for the basics we never got to master in the first place.
Because when the foundation is weak, the profession suffers, not just the student.
We don’t just need “more” dental colleges.
We need better dental colleges.
Ones that produce graduates who are confident, skilled, and truly ready for the demands of modern dentistry.
Until then, the gap between “graduate” and “clinically competent dentist” will keep costing young professionals – both financially and mentally.
💬 Dental students deserve more than just a degree — they deserve the skills to thrive. What’s your solution?