dental school really makes you realize that the world doesn’t stop for you. did poorly on a pretty big exam and didn’t have any time to mourn because i had to start studying for the next 😅 thanks for this video stephen, i’m rooting for u!
Stephen, these are such wise words and thoughts. Everyone, not just people in dental school, should watch this and take it to heart. One of my favorite quotes about failure: “success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
Thank you so much for the comment and support, Maxwell!! I am continually blown away by the people like you who watch my videos and comment with such genuine support! It is wild man. I never thought this channel would progress to where it is as quickly as it has. Excited to continue the journey of dental school and RUclips!!
Yeah, endo is hard, Specially on extracted teeth. They are already dehydrated and the canals are bound to be calcified, irrespective of the person’s age when the tooth was extracted. I’m an internationally trained dentist looking into getting my license in the US. That means I have to go thru 2-3 years of dental school again in the US, and I was so excited about it. In preparation, I’m taking an advanced dentistry course at my university. My endo professor is so tough on us! I have to do 2 RCT in each tooth of the mouth, just finding the extracted teeth was an enormous task in itself! And I’m also prepping to take the INBDE, right now I’m studying pathology 😢 I had forgotten how demanding dental school is! All the homework on typodonts plus the studying! I’m actually questioning my decision of going back to dental school…
Hey Stephen, I’m currently a D1 & have followed you for quite some time now as your videos gave me amazing advice & insight during my predental journey. Now that I’m over 2 months in I love that I’m able to watch these videos and actually FULLY relate to your experiences. These past few weeks have…exactly as you said… been KICKING ME over & over even when I’m down. Like you, I also have little experience with failure from undergrad, but boy has that changed recently. I keep telling myself this time of adjustment & failure is a great opportunity for growth, and I’m still highly motivated to get back on track. But sometimes comparison to my other classmates (& my past self who never failed) is tough and these past few days specifically has been pretty rough emotionally. I popped on RUclips 20 minutes ago to search for a video to aid in my understanding for my op 1 didactic lecture and saw THIS video front & center screaming my name to watch it. Thank you so much for being so open & sharing your experiences and take on how to manage failure. I don’t want to say I’m happy other people are failing… but it definitely does provide some sense of comfort 😂 We’re all in this together & I’m so happy to be apart of this special community of developing professionals. Praying for you & your path exam score!! Thanks again ♡
Im 3 weeks into my first year if dental school Ive been watching ur videos since i was a junior.. and here i am starting a new chapter of my life .. that ive not always dreamed about .. but something that i wanted to do.. i really love it whenever u give us advice and help us avoid the mistakes u’ve done
Making mistakes is part of the process, Jalil! Never fear making mistakes! Just understand that when you make them, the world has not ended. When you make a mistake, there is always an opportunity to learn. And when you make a mistake, you should feel a fire lit inside of you to work harder to avoid that mistake in the future. Keep up the great work, thank you for watching and supporting, and have fun in your first year of Dental School!
In my D2 year and currently taking pathology, tough material and memorization, no doubt about it. I can totally relate with what you said about dental school continuously kicking from my D1 year. There is no time to dwell on failure because the next challenge is already happening, and that’s one of the most stressfully feeling I’ve ever experienced. However the silver lining for me is knowing that when we graduate (and we will), we’re going to be beasts in the relation to productivity and discipline. It will be quite a reward knowing we completed something most could not, and what we have learned will stay with us forever. “Hard times build strong men”
Thank you for your honesty I am a third year dental student as well and I was going through a hard time in managing my time and actually resting and it was getting really frustrating but your words felt so relatable and for some reason it just helps I wish you the best and I am sure any patient would be more than lucky to have you as a dentist
Thank you so much, Reem!! I have been working hard, and my recent bouts will failure have urged me to work even harder! I wish you the best of luck with school, and I want you to know that I know what you're going through! Never forget that there is a light at the end of the tunnel!
I really appreciate this honest and very helpful video. I am currently in a health care program (not dentistry) but relate to failing on exams when before I always got A's in my classes. It is very frustrating and I can't figure out if it is me or the professors not doing a good enough job of teaching us prior to exams. Like you I had a low grade on an exam and then an issue in the clinical portion and I was so hard on myself. It took a lot to keep showing up and not giving up. As you mentioned I tried to learn from what went wrong and it takes a lot of mental strength to just move on from it and not let it fester in your head and throw you off your game.
I completely agree! Thanks for the comment. It’s tough it really is. But somehow I’ve made it this far and I only have less than a year left at this point. Keep up your hard work I promise it’ll pay off!
I just got accepted by the University I want to study dentistry in a couple of days ago. And Honestly I’m genuinely scared and concerned, there’s excitement of course but I take things I care about personally and seriously. For someone reason Hearing Your Feelings and Honesty Towards the process is something so amazing and I’m assured that No matter how hard it is, it’s always incredible how you challenge yourself and Take responsibility for Your actions even though it’s not to your liking. Wishing the best for you and I hope you’re gonna keep making these. It’s really important to move forward and learn from mistakes. Wishing you well and I’m really admiring your hard work❤️💯
I’m currently a pre-dental student; in the process of going through interviews and finishing up my senior year. I just wanted to let you know that you are unbelievably inspiring and you are a figure that I look up to. Keep doing great things and keep your head high.
Deshon, thank you so very much!! I truly appreciate the support and the kind words. I am also honored to be considered an inspiration that really means the world to me. I will keep up the hard work if you do too! 🤝
Me too. It gets you down so bad rt?.... I'm going at a snails pace at restoration compared to my peers. And its with patients. I'm still afraid that I'll do iatrogenic damage or get a pulp exposure. My profs & patients all say I'm slow. Idk... Only my chair gets jammed, only my allotted patients ghost AND I'm slow at cavity prep... I feel like I'm lost & hit a plateau.
@@jessyzacharias34 I graduated now and I'm so much better at it. Ive worked hard for it. Don't bother about it, it's like the child who starts to walk. The same child who may have hard time to start walking maybe the olympic runner when he grows up
as a dentist for many years now, iatrogenic damage during treatment is something that happens in live patients as well. It's good to experience your shortcomings. the problem with dental school is the moment when it really counts it needs to be perfect. Maybe the take away for you is to manage patient expectations. Practically, always make a pre op xray for your endo's
Keep up the hard work friend. I am struggling with my own failures too. The undergrad fails where I don't actually fail anything but I'm just not where I need to be. Most people don't have anxiety attacks over getting 80% lol
I understand how this feels!! Thanks for watching, commenting, and supporting me and my channel. It is very surreal for me to know that there are so many people out there that are actually invested in my journey because of my videos. Gives me even more of a reason to work hard and succeed! Keep up the great work!
Thanks a lot for this video, I've failed severely in a filling today, I've been feeling so down about it, and i have a protho exam tomorrow so i decided just not to study at all, but after these words imma go finish it all up and hopefully get a high mark. Thank you man you're really one of a kind.
Appreciate the video. Current D2 with an oral path test and my first operative patient next year. Good reminder that learning is always the most important part.
Ya'll are ahead of schedule in your curriculum! It is a challenge but we are all up for it! Thanks for the comment and support and best of luck on your studies and clinical work!
Thank you so much for sharing this! I really relate cause I'm a 3rd year dental student too. This helped me a lot, let's do our best together and think how we can do the best for our patients. Dentistry is definitely not easy but that's okay, God will guide and help us.
Couldn't agree more, Vivianne!! Thanks for the comment and for watching. It is definitely a tough process but as much as there are weeks like the one that inspired this video, there are also weeks like the one I am experiencing now where I have felt good about everything. The journey has its peaks and valleys. I am just happy to be on it!!
I like your videos so much! And all the advise you give is very useful. They make me feel more prepared for the journey. I am a senior undergraduate and I haven’t gotten into dental school yet but I just applied this cycle.
thank you so so much for this video! i'm so glad that I got a chance to watch this! i just finished my highschool and unfortunately got rejected on my dream dentistry school this year. It was truly painful to accept this reality, but I am so grateful that I watched your video and listened to your advices, it was really inspirational and helpful what you said. So thank you! :))
Thank you so much for the supportive comment, Summer! I'm so honored to be considered an inspiration to people like you. I hope the videos help and I hope I am always here to get you through the difficult process. If I can do it, you can too!
Failure is part of the learning process. You are learning about the practice of dentistry and you will succeed. Oh yeah, and remember “more lingual than by BUCCAL”…😊
Alan I will never forget it!! I learn something new every single day, and that is not an exaggeration. It is a continual learning process that won't even end when I graduate from school! I will be learning every single day of my career and you will too!
@@stephenraydentist You have a great attitude and I know you will be an excellent dentist 🦷..( I can tell since I dealt with many dentists after practicing pharmacy for 42 years… now retired 😊).
You said you wanted to be a general dentist, any reason why you don't want to be an oral surgeon? Trying to figure out which one is better. Great video, by the way.
I will be making a video about why general dentistry! I definitely want to talk about this decision in much more detail. But to give you a quick answer, general dentistry offers me the opportunity to do a large variety of things in my dental practice daily. I can do OS, endo, operative, prosthodontics, and cosmetics/sleep/implants etc. There is a just a great opportunity to do a lot of different things in GD as opposed to a specialty in which one does virtually the same procedure over and over again for their entire career. I also will really enjoy getting to know each of my patients as opposed to seeing them once because they were referred to me and never knowing anything about them!
Thanks for the comment!! I don't speak Arabic, so I'm not sure how I would do this! But I have heard a few people suggest this so perhaps I could find a way to make that happen
It’s Anki that’s failing you my guy. I saw you doing the flashcards the other day and you’re really overusing it! Be careful. Anki is great as a tool that could help you with not more than 10% of what you need to learn
I don't think I overuse Anki at all. Anki has really helped me perform well in dental school for years. On this particular exam, I should've diversified the way I studied for it. I also wasn't my sharpest for the exam for various reasons. Anki was not the problem though
u can almost fully rely on anki and do really well. its a memorization tool, not a learning tool. maybe u used it to learn materials but no one should do that
🥹I failed D3 . I not only feel stupid, but I feel like a failure. I’m just going through a lot right now, and it’s a bit hard for me to stay focused.The professors aren’t very helpful and very discouraging . I don’t want to give up but I definitively don’t want to study here anymore. I was wondering if I would get accepted in the US with my failed grades🥹, but I’ll probably have to change my major to DH. Can anyone help me please, 🥹❤️
dental school really makes you realize that the world doesn’t stop for you. did poorly on a pretty big exam and didn’t have any time to mourn because i had to start studying for the next 😅 thanks for this video stephen, i’m rooting for u!
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Stephen, these are such wise words and thoughts. Everyone, not just people in dental school, should watch this and take it to heart. One of my favorite quotes about failure: “success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
Thank you so much for the comment and support, Maxwell!! I am continually blown away by the people like you who watch my videos and comment with such genuine support! It is wild man. I never thought this channel would progress to where it is as quickly as it has. Excited to continue the journey of dental school and RUclips!!
Yeah, endo is hard, Specially on extracted teeth. They are already dehydrated and the canals are bound to be calcified, irrespective of the person’s age when the tooth was extracted.
I’m an internationally trained dentist looking into getting my license in the US. That means I have to go thru 2-3 years of dental school again in the US, and I was so excited about it.
In preparation, I’m taking an advanced dentistry course at my university. My endo professor is so tough on us! I have to do 2 RCT in each tooth of the mouth, just finding the extracted teeth was an enormous task in itself! And I’m also prepping to take the INBDE, right now I’m studying pathology 😢
I had forgotten how demanding dental school is! All the homework on typodonts plus the studying!
I’m actually questioning my decision of going back to dental school…
Hey Stephen, I’m currently a D1 & have followed you for quite some time now as your videos gave me amazing advice & insight during my predental journey. Now that I’m over 2 months in I love that I’m able to watch these videos and actually FULLY relate to your experiences. These past few weeks have…exactly as you said… been KICKING ME over & over even when I’m down. Like you, I also have little experience with failure from undergrad, but boy has that changed recently. I keep telling myself this time of adjustment & failure is a great opportunity for growth, and I’m still highly motivated to get back on track. But sometimes comparison to my other classmates (& my past self who never failed) is tough and these past few days specifically has been pretty rough emotionally. I popped on RUclips 20 minutes ago to search for a video to aid in my understanding for my op 1 didactic lecture and saw THIS video front & center screaming my name to watch it. Thank you so much for being so open & sharing your experiences and take on how to manage failure. I don’t want to say I’m happy other people are failing… but it definitely does provide some sense of comfort 😂 We’re all in this together & I’m so happy to be apart of this special community of developing professionals. Praying for you & your path exam score!! Thanks again ♡
Im 3 weeks into my first year if dental school
Ive been watching ur videos since i was a junior.. and here i am starting a new chapter of my life .. that ive not always dreamed about .. but something that i wanted to do.. i really love it whenever u give us advice and help us avoid the mistakes u’ve done
Making mistakes is part of the process, Jalil! Never fear making mistakes! Just understand that when you make them, the world has not ended. When you make a mistake, there is always an opportunity to learn. And when you make a mistake, you should feel a fire lit inside of you to work harder to avoid that mistake in the future. Keep up the great work, thank you for watching and supporting, and have fun in your first year of Dental School!
In my D2 year and currently taking pathology, tough material and memorization, no doubt about it.
I can totally relate with what you said about dental school continuously kicking from my D1 year. There is no time to dwell on failure because the next challenge is already happening, and that’s one of the most stressfully feeling I’ve ever experienced.
However the silver lining for me is knowing that when we graduate (and we will), we’re going to be beasts in the relation to productivity and discipline. It will be quite a reward knowing we completed something most could not, and what we have learned will stay with us forever.
“Hard times build strong men”
Thank you for your honesty
I am a third year dental student as well and I was going through a hard time in managing my time and actually resting and it was getting really frustrating but your words felt so relatable and for some reason it just helps
I wish you the best and I am sure any patient would be more than lucky to have you as a dentist
Thank you so much, Reem!! I have been working hard, and my recent bouts will failure have urged me to work even harder! I wish you the best of luck with school, and I want you to know that I know what you're going through! Never forget that there is a light at the end of the tunnel!
I really appreciate this honest and very helpful video. I am currently in a health care program (not dentistry) but relate to failing on exams when before I always got A's in my classes. It is very frustrating and I can't figure out if it is me or the professors not doing a good enough job of teaching us prior to exams. Like you I had a low grade on an exam and then an issue in the clinical portion and I was so hard on myself. It took a lot to keep showing up and not giving up. As you mentioned I tried to learn from what went wrong and it takes a lot of mental strength to just move on from it and not let it fester in your head and throw you off your game.
I completely agree! Thanks for the comment. It’s tough it really is. But somehow I’ve made it this far and I only have less than a year left at this point. Keep up your hard work I promise it’ll pay off!
I just got accepted by the University I want to study dentistry in a couple of days ago. And Honestly I’m genuinely scared and concerned, there’s excitement of course but I take things I care about personally and seriously. For someone reason Hearing Your Feelings and Honesty Towards the process is something so amazing and I’m assured that No matter how hard it is, it’s always incredible how you challenge yourself and Take responsibility for Your actions even though it’s not to your liking. Wishing the best for you and I hope you’re gonna keep making these. It’s really important to move forward and learn from mistakes. Wishing you well and I’m really admiring your hard work❤️💯
as a D1 I can 100% relate, I appreciate your advice, it was really reassuring, thank you!
I’m currently a pre-dental student; in the process of going through interviews and finishing up my senior year. I just wanted to let you know that you are unbelievably inspiring and you are a figure that I look up to. Keep doing great things and keep your head high.
Deshon, thank you so very much!! I truly appreciate the support and the kind words. I am also honored to be considered an inspiration that really means the world to me. I will keep up the hard work if you do too! 🤝
@@stephenraydentist you’ve got my word :)
Many dental students around me study faster than theoretically, and getting better in practical faster than me. Imagine the mental struggle I’m in now
Me too. It gets you down so bad rt?.... I'm going at a snails pace at restoration compared to my peers. And its with patients. I'm still afraid that I'll do iatrogenic damage or get a pulp exposure. My profs & patients all say I'm slow. Idk... Only my chair gets jammed, only my allotted patients ghost AND I'm slow at cavity prep... I feel like I'm lost & hit a plateau.
@@jessyzacharias34 I graduated now and I'm so much better at it. Ive worked hard for it. Don't bother about it, it's like the child who starts to walk. The same child who may have hard time to start walking maybe the olympic runner when he grows up
as a dentist for many years now, iatrogenic damage during treatment is something that happens in live patients as well. It's good to experience your shortcomings. the problem with dental school is the moment when it really counts it needs to be perfect. Maybe the take away for you is to manage patient expectations. Practically, always make a pre op xray for your endo's
Keep up the hard work friend. I am struggling with my own failures too. The undergrad fails where I don't actually fail anything but I'm just not where I need to be. Most people don't have anxiety attacks over getting 80% lol
I understand how this feels!! Thanks for watching, commenting, and supporting me and my channel. It is very surreal for me to know that there are so many people out there that are actually invested in my journey because of my videos. Gives me even more of a reason to work hard and succeed! Keep up the great work!
Thanks a lot for this video, I've failed severely in a filling today, I've been feeling so down about it, and i have a protho exam tomorrow so i decided just not to study at all, but after these words imma go finish it all up and hopefully get a high mark.
Thank you man you're really one of a kind.
Appreciate the video. Current D2 with an oral path test and my first operative patient next year. Good reminder that learning is always the most important part.
Ya'll are ahead of schedule in your curriculum! It is a challenge but we are all up for it! Thanks for the comment and support and best of luck on your studies and clinical work!
Thank you so much for sharing this! I really relate cause I'm a 3rd year dental student too. This helped me a lot, let's do our best together and think how we can do the best for our patients. Dentistry is definitely not easy but that's okay, God will guide and help us.
Couldn't agree more, Vivianne!! Thanks for the comment and for watching. It is definitely a tough process but as much as there are weeks like the one that inspired this video, there are also weeks like the one I am experiencing now where I have felt good about everything. The journey has its peaks and valleys. I am just happy to be on it!!
I like your videos so much! And all the advise you give is very useful. They make me feel more prepared for the journey. I am a senior undergraduate and I haven’t gotten into dental school yet but I just applied this cycle.
Great video. I really love it. I just finished 4 interviews and hopefully I can get into some dental school one day.
You have got this!! Thanks so much for the comment and the support!
thank you so so much for this video! i'm so glad that I got a chance to watch this! i just finished my highschool and unfortunately got rejected on my dream dentistry school this year. It was truly painful to accept this reality, but I am so grateful that I watched your video and listened to your advices, it was really inspirational and helpful what you said. So thank you! :))
I love watching you, you’re inspiring and help me to keep on going with this passion
Thank you so much for the supportive comment, Summer! I'm so honored to be considered an inspiration to people like you. I hope the videos help and I hope I am always here to get you through the difficult process. If I can do it, you can too!
Well said man, well said
Thanks as always, Zach! I appreciate it my friend!
Failure is part of the learning process. You are learning about the practice of dentistry and you will succeed. Oh yeah, and remember “more lingual than by BUCCAL”…😊
Alan I will never forget it!! I learn something new every single day, and that is not an exaggeration. It is a continual learning process that won't even end when I graduate from school! I will be learning every single day of my career and you will too!
@@stephenraydentist You have a great attitude and I know you will be an excellent dentist 🦷..( I can tell since I dealt with many dentists after practicing pharmacy for 42 years… now retired 😊).
You said you wanted to be a general dentist, any reason why you don't want to be an oral surgeon? Trying to figure out which one is better. Great video, by the way.
I will be making a video about why general dentistry! I definitely want to talk about this decision in much more detail. But to give you a quick answer, general dentistry offers me the opportunity to do a large variety of things in my dental practice daily. I can do OS, endo, operative, prosthodontics, and cosmetics/sleep/implants etc. There is a just a great opportunity to do a lot of different things in GD as opposed to a specialty in which one does virtually the same procedure over and over again for their entire career. I also will really enjoy getting to know each of my patients as opposed to seeing them once because they were referred to me and never knowing anything about them!
Thank you for answering.
“we practice dentistry, we don’t master dentistry”
Absolutely!! I stand by that!
I have a question for you. Do you take written notes or do you only use Anki to study for dental school?
Thanks for the comment! Check out this video: ruclips.net/video/XqTJ2xCUBxI/видео.html
Have you taken the INBDE?
Not yet! I believe we will take it some time in 2023!
@@stephenraydentist Goodluck then
Please, my friend, add Arabic language to the videos😊🌹
Thanks for the comment!! I don't speak Arabic, so I'm not sure how I would do this! But I have heard a few people suggest this so perhaps I could find a way to make that happen
It’s Anki that’s failing you my guy. I saw you doing the flashcards the other day and you’re really overusing it! Be careful. Anki is great as a tool that could help you with not more than 10% of what you need to learn
I don't think I overuse Anki at all. Anki has really helped me perform well in dental school for years. On this particular exam, I should've diversified the way I studied for it. I also wasn't my sharpest for the exam for various reasons. Anki was not the problem though
u can almost fully rely on anki and do really well. its a memorization tool, not a learning tool. maybe u used it to learn materials but no one should do that
🥹I failed D3 . I not only feel stupid, but I feel like a failure. I’m just going through a lot right now, and it’s a bit hard for me to stay focused.The professors aren’t very helpful and very discouraging . I don’t want to give up but I definitively don’t want to study here anymore. I was wondering if I would get accepted in the US with my failed grades🥹, but I’ll probably have to change my major to DH. Can anyone help me please, 🥹❤️
What did you decide to do?