The major dilemma that exists among students while choosing the stream for an MDS course is whether to give Importance to subject or college ??
There is no fixed algorithm that will suit everyone for this question.
"GIVE IMPORTANCE TO SUBJECT MORE THAN COLLEGE"
Subject:
The first thing in choosing a stream for MDS is to finalize the subject. “ GIVE IMPORTANCE TO SUBJECT MORE THAN COLLEGE”. Remember you are going to do this profession for a lifetime and that is your identity for the rest of your life. There is nothing as good subject and bad subject. It is just what is best for you. In the dental field, it is best to equip yourself with as many clinical skills as possible and become competent enough to set up your own dental practice. Before choosing a non clinical subjects know that the employment in teaching field is super saturated.
Prosthodontics
Pros :
Pros :
- Variety of treatment modalities
- Good exposure to lab work
- TMJ
- Extraoral and maxillofacial prosthesis
- Advancements
Cons :
Cons :
- Hectic work ( lab and clinical)
- College location is important – metro cities have better exposure to array of cases. Colleges located in outskirts and peripheral vicinity have less patient flow and variety of cases is less with only conventional cases available.
Periodontology
Pros :
Pros :
- Implants, flap surgery
- Consultations only in metro cities
- Regenerative approach.
- Oral hygiene approach and awareness is less in India.
Cons :
Cons :
- Maintenance post surgery is difficult because of lack of awareness and time consuming
Oral Surgery
Pros :
Pros :
- Surgical branch – close association with medical field . Only branch which connects medical and dental field.
- Abundance of scope as consultant
- Hospital attachments
- Head and neck trauma cases, TMJ, carcinoma cases
Cons :
Cons :
- Keen interest is required.
- Requires time, energy, efforts and money to establish and settle as surgeon.
- Fellowship is needed
- More hours of duty and night shifts
- Emergency cases and hectic
- Away from general dentistry.
Pedodontics
Pros :
Pros :
- Exclusive field for children
- Good scope in metro cities
- Child is the patient, parent is automatically your patient
- Abundance of Consultations
Cons :
Cons :
- Children are your patients! Age defined field
- Requires a lit of patience and Keen interest
- Requires behaviour management skills
- Hectic during treatment procedures.
Conservative dentistry and Endodontics
Pros :
Pros :
- You are the pain reliever
- Cosmetic dentistry and laser fellowships , esthetic dentistry give more money.
- Good general practice
- Abundance of Consultations
- “Bread and butter” of dentistry
Cons :
Cons :
- Saturated field
- Doing courses and fellowships are more time consuming and provides experience as well.
Orthodontics
Pros :
Pros :
- Evergreen industry
- Good awareness in India
- Aligners treatment is money minting
- Interesting subject
- New concepts which we have never been exposed to in UG.
- Abundance of Consultations
Cons :
Cons :
- Away from general dentistry
Non Clinical Subjects
Scope :
Scope :
- Research
- Government jobs
- Academics and management
- Overseas opportunities are abundant
