Dentist
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Dentistry is the Number 1 Job in America for Debt
- January 24, 2017
- Posted by: Travis
- Category: Dentist
45 Comments
US News recently published their rankings of the 100 best jobs of 2017, and they boldly claim that dentistry is the number 1 job in America. Their report rates occupations on a list of seven different factors, but none address the cost of a dental education. For new dentists, your dental school dean probably sold you a bill
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Published Cost Estimates of Dental School Are Totally Wrong
- January 3, 2017
- Posted by: Travis
- Category: Dentist
Imagine if you told a patient you’d charge them $1,000 for a root canal. Then they get the bill in the mail and it says they owe $1,250. The patient would probably be upset right? Dental schools are effectively doing this to dental students all around the country with faulty cost estimates of dental school.
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Go to Dental School and Maybe Drive a $5,000 Used Car One Day
- December 20, 2016
- Posted by: Travis
- Category: Dentist
I discovered the DentalTown forums recently, and the community there has confirmed what I’m discovering in my dental school student loan consulting business. The majority of folks who go to dental school today are setting themselves up for years of what is basically indentured servitude, not a life of “four day work weeks and driving a Porsche 911” as one user joked.
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Five Ways Dentists Can Protect Themselves Against Student Loans
- November 14, 2016
- Posted by: Travis
- Category: Dentist
The economics of the dental profession have never been more challenging. The average dental student graduated with $261,149 in student loans in 2016, and 30% of dental students graduated with more than $300,000 in debt. I have two student loan consultations coming up with dentists married to one another with joint loan balances over $1 million.
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Dentists Get Drilled on Student Loans
- November 10, 2016
- Posted by: Travis
- Category: Dentist
A typical dental school education costs upwards of $70,000 per year including living expenses. According to the American Dental Education Association, the average indebted dental student in 2016 graduated with $261,149 in dental student loans. Perhaps even scarier, 4 in 5 dental students are included in that indebted group. Sadly, those massive debt profiles do not even
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This Dentist-Lawyer Couple Has a Half Million Dollars in Student Loan Savings Waiting on Them
- October 4, 2016
- Posted by: Travis
- Category: Dentist, Lawyer
Amber and Danny Masters are like any other married couple, except they have $591,158.21 in student loans. Their interest rates are sky high at an average annual rate of 6.8%. Unlike many couples in America, they are very serious about paying off this debt. They’ve rearranged their budget to prioritize making extra payments. Additionally, they even started a personal finance website, redtwogreen.com,