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Starting a career as a dentist
Today, the emphasis of dental care is focused on educating the public to care for their mouths and teeth.
Dentists will work with patients and the general public in a number of ways, preventing and treating dental and oral disease, correcting dental irregularities (particularly in children) and treating dental and facial injuries.
The entries in the menu on the left provide further information on entering a career as a dentist
