D1 Dental Student Sooraj Shah @soorajshah24 - Dr. Gallagher's Podcast x Dose of Dental Podcast #154

Top 4 Topics:

- How Dental Schools Are Quietly Cutting Costs (and Students Are Paying the Price)

- Top Study Hacks Dental Students Swear By in 2025

- What It Really Takes to Become an Oral Surgeon:

- Exposing Dental Insurance Scams

Quotes & Wisdom:

"You're only going to submit one score, but now you gain the understanding of what you need to study. That’s valuable." – Brendan

"You're not just going to take this once and be done with it. I'm letting you know—it’s a tough exam." – Brendan

"The biggest thing is going digital, despite traditional methods of writing everything out. It literally changed my life going from D2 to D3." – Brendan

"Referrals are huge. You need to know and have a good relationship with everybody in your class." – Sooraj

"Be careful with your back, your hands, your posture. Those are one, two, and three in dentistry." – Brendan

"Insurance cutting rates is unethical to the people actually taking care of patients." – Brendan

"You’re going to get your clinical requirements in. But you might not get another chance to extern like this again." – Brendan

"Anatomy is easy on cadavers. Doing it during surgery—recognizing structures while bleeding occludes your view—that’s the real deal." – Sooraj

Questions:

00:00 – How’s everything going, man?

00:45 – Do you have your technique down?

02:40 – You took your first CBSE in July of D1, right?

04:24 – You think it’s worth taking the CBSE this year?

11:28 – Did you have different options after residency?

13:45 – If you had the MD, are you allowed to work in hospitals?

15:33 – What are you expecting from your first few days in private practice?

18:03 – How many students are in your class?

20:10 – What do they tell you for clinic logistics at Stony Brook?

32:13 – Did you get a chance to shadow in the OR during dental school?

33:02 – What was the coolest thing you saw in the OR?

38:26 – Are they taking more out-of-state students now?

Now available on:

- Dr. Gallagher’s Podcast & YouTube Channel

- Dose of Dental Podcast #154

My watch in this episode = Citizen Cal 2100 Limited Edition Panda

- 6.2025

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