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However, getting accepted into dental school is not easy.
Traditional dental education takes place in the classroom, preclinical lab, and clinic; however, the team found that over 80 percent of the 700 U.S. dental students they surveyed used YouTube to review dental preparations and procedures.
Aspiring dentists should also be aware that there is a dental school entrance exam, the Dental Admission Test.
This multiple-choice assessment includes ,science puzzles, math problems, spatial reasoning exercises and reading comprehension questions.
Scores range from 1 to 30, with 19 as the national average.
Dr.
Ronnie Myers, dean of the Touro College of Dental Medicine at New York Medical College, says the dental school curriculum typically involves an abundance of hands-on practice, in part because all dental school grads are expected to be "practice-ready" on graduation day.
