no most states have less than 1yr program
4 very long years
School can take 2 years on average. This can vary based on the exact area of dental work you are going into.
Most students have a bachelor's degree before entering dental school. Dental school is approximately four years. Thus, it would be approximately eight years post high school completion. Four years of undergraduate coursework and four years of dental school.
It takes four years to get through dental school. However, you'll also have to fulfill whatever pre-dental academic requirements the dental school you're applying to demands. At dental school itself, you'll spend the first two years taking academic courses and then the next two years in clinical training.
Typically it takes 4 years of college followed by 4 years of dental school followed by 2 to 3 years of orthodontic residency training. However a college degree is not strictly required to enter dental school so you could conceivably just do the prerequisites and then apply to dental school after 2 or 3 years of college. Also there is one dental school in the US that is only 3 years. University of the Pacific. It also has a 2 plus 3 program that lets you do 2 years of college followed by 3 years of dental school. Thus cutting the 8 years of school down to 5.
It usually take two to three years to get through dental school. It varies greatly, however, depending on what you are specifically going to dental school for.
Dental schools require a minimum of 2 years of college-level predental education prior to admittance. Most dental students have at least a bachelor's degree before entering dental school, although a few applicants are accepted to dental school after 2 or 3 years of college and complete their bachelor's degree while attending dental school.
I'd say you would have to be at least fourteen years old (if you are just helping out at the dentist office) but, you would have to go to dental school if you want to be a real dentist!
Dental schools require a minimum of 2 years of college-level pre-dental education prior to admittance. Most dental students have at least a bachelor's degree before entering dental school, although a few applicants are accepted to dental school after 2 or 3 years of college and complete their bachelor's degree while attending dental school. Dental school usually lasts 4 academic years. Some dental schools award the Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS). Others award an equivalent degree, Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD).
To be a dental assistant you will need a 4 year bachelor degree with a major in pre-dentistry. If you would like to run your own practice or be a dentist, you will need an additional 4 years of study at a dental school.
2 years
It will take four years for the bachelor's degree, and an additional four years of dental school. Thus, a total of eight years beyond high school completion.
4 years of college (unless early acceptance to dental school after 3) 4 years of Dental school (unless at UOP 3 years) 24-36 months of residency training in othodontia 10-11 years after high school.