I don't think the reason for more people taking up dentistry thus leading to stiff market competition should discourage anyone from dentistry if they have a passion and calling for it. Ultimately, it is those who are genuinely called who will do well and derive true happiness and fulfilment in their chosen career.
A true story: A surgeon operating on a heart patient punctured her artery and advised her husband to sue him because his insurance company will compensate for his negligence. In this situation, the doctor is protected by insurance whereas the patient is the one who suffers harm. Doesn't the same scenario apply to dentists?
I think you Gigi Han can be a youtuber. Anyway, as the country progresses people are much aware of their oral health. Now you can notice many wore braces especially girls who wanted to look beautiful with beautiful set of teeth. And you can make a decent living by being a dentist and it is good to share your experience here. Gigi Han maybe you can learn to be a plastic surgeon. Go to Korea and work there to gain experience and come back here. The girls not only they wanted a good set of teeth but nice nose and eyes. They also like to have nice boobs shape and size just to look stunning. All the best to you Gigi Han.
after seeing this vid, i think i wanna consider about my decision for being a dentist. so whats your opinion for me in order to choose another career that are much-needy with guaranteed future? *still thinking about what course to persue in degree (consider the field of science)
Hi Dr. Han, I'd like to share my story as a final year BDS student. I'm studying at a private uni, and I've begun to really regret my choice. But on the flip side, I should look at the brighter side of things that; at least, now I know. I went into BDS thinking with my intentions of being of service & help to people, in addition to giving my artistic side (I draw) an outlet. I realize that I'm not satisfied with the way the healthcare system works and often at times as a GDP, there's not much that we can do. I apologize if this seemed like a rude assumption for those actually in the field right now. Since often times when a patient comes into the clinic, their condition is most likely in the severe stage where referral would be needed. I feel as though, I'm not helping people enough. I don't have the drive nor the financial means to go into masters, or even PhD. Dental stuff doesn't seem to click with me, everything seems so subjective and so "once-you-get-enough-experience-you'll-be-able-to-tell" kind of thing. I get that the medical field had always had that sort of subjectivity but, it seems I really couldn't bear it with my inherent anxiety. Because of covid, my years 3 and 4 of clinics time are basically non-existent. I feel as competent as a year 3 student. Even last year when hard-MCO was less of a thing, we had such a lack of patients coming in, and the ones that would, actually were covid-positive. Which we had to close up for several weeks at a time, further diminishing our already-lacking clinics time. Right now I am severely lacking in some fields of my ECE quota, namely ICDAS 3/4, RCT and so on. It's quite sad that I wasn't allotted or found a single prostho case yet. Roughly 10 weeks remain before our final exam kicks in... My anxiey is peaking day by day. I don't feel competent to even be in the (dental) workforce. That being said, I think I would like to change out of my job when granted the chance. Hopefully KKM kicks me out after the 1 year haha... Thinking of going into Japanese translation, I do have work experience and have worked with some industry giants from Japan during my down time years ago, I am at least confident in my translation skills to make a living out of it. Only issue barring me is; a parent who made poor financial decisions, that resulted in them being jobless, disabled to work. They want me to at least get my BDS degree, an overseas insurace they were under had allowed them to receive their salary until a specified time, which so happened to be around the time I graduate. They don't have any sort of savings whatsover, and so I'm faced with the situation of having to feed them and myself with my fresh grad salary. Dentistry stresses the ever-living heck out of me, but the situation obviously calls for me to work there as long as possible... My depression just gets worse and worse every morning I wake up, knowing that this is my future.
Would you say the same if someone came back to work in the country as a specialist dentist? And what would you say are the specialities that are lacking/needed in Malaysia?
Dental specialists are still in demand. But they will most likely be working in KL/Penang/JB/KCH/KK. When there is no dental insurance to cover your back, you can only be based in big cities to tackle the wealthy patients.
I think the facts of suicide depend on varying criteria eg the geographical locations and socioeconomic situations of the victims. For example, many farmers in India kill themselves when their crops fail and they are no longer able to work on the farms to repay their debts to the landowners whereas in developed countries, more suicide cases seem to come from those plagued with mental illness. The notion that dentists top the list of career professionals who take their lives seems a stretch.
Currently dental GP is in excess as this phenomenon is a recent occurrence only started since around 2015. At the moment, only a small ratio among those who went ahead and studied masters programme to be specialists.
Hi! I'm a Canadian student who was accepted to dental school and will start in August. I'm seriously having second thoughts about this career. My true passion is medicine but only applied to dentistry because it's much easier to get into here in Canada. I don't know what to do now. If I give up dentistry, there's no guarantee that I'll get into medicine. I don't want to lose the "bird in hand" as they say. What would you do?
Hi thanks for reaching out! I do not know any colleague in Canada hence I don't know much about how Canadian dental system works there. All I can say is, 40% of my patients are international expats and those with the best quality dental work done that I've seen are Canadian patients! I believe Canada has a very healthy dental system in place for the patients and the practitioners compared to a developing nation like Malaysia. System aside, dentistry and medicine are quite different if we compare them on the GP level (Once you choose to pursue a specific specialty in either fields then this comment may or may not change drastically): The biggest difference between the two is hands-on skill vs diagnosis skill. A dental GP is 90% hands-on vs 10% diagnosis, as oral diseases that a dentist see and treat are usually limited to that 15-ish diseases. While a medical GP is the other way around, it is 90% diagnosis and 10% hands-on, where you mostly need to know how to correctly diagnose a disease and prescribe the appropriate medicines and/or making the appropriate referrals. Hope this helps. Wish you well. PM Gigi Han page on Facebook if you wish to chat more in depth with me. Although I may not be the best person to seek advice from as I do not know much about the Canadian dental system.
I didn't realize American lawsuit culture made it over to the east in any significant way. Touchy situation for all involved I'd bet. Be careful out there (not that you need to hear that, of course). Thanks for the perspective.
The trend now is aesthetic dentist. Still earning a lot because irregardless the clients are with mild/serious problem, dentist advices to do this invxxxlign for abt RM20k. Earning a lot isn’t it?
The profession will become like hair stylists, some celebrity level professionals are earning 6 figures a month, some will have to close shop simply because cannot sustain. Different playing fields now.
Malaysia should move towards functional or biological aka whole-body dentistry. Applying the big-picture mindset by making the connection between oral and physical health and doing preventive dentistry versus reactive treatments should be the future of dentistry.
@@uwenyeap553 New dentists NEED to go through at least a year of government service by law, hence, of course, I am referring to the monthly income of a government dentist. Mind you, a private dentist may or may not earn more than this amount.
Under current atmosphere and seeing how newcomers are struggling, I really don't have the motivation to encourage good high school students to choose medicine/dentistry as their careers.
@@GigiHan But I think if you do a video listing all the right reasons why one should be a dentist it would encourage the right candidates and dissuade those with misguided motives to reconsider their career choice.
Lucky you people Era of Now everyone Can fly !!!!!???? Everyone Can be gigi dokotor Inginer Lowya Pelukis Banguntinggi The langit no limit At least gigi need uni degree The others apprentiship Will do
Giving local support as a current dental student! I hope the situation will be better since the awareness has been raised.
I don't think the reason for more people taking up dentistry thus leading to stiff market competition should discourage anyone from dentistry if they have a passion and calling for it. Ultimately, it is those who are genuinely called who will do well and derive true happiness and fulfilment in their chosen career.
A true story: A surgeon operating on a heart patient punctured her artery and advised her husband to sue him because his insurance company will compensate for his negligence. In this situation, the doctor is protected by insurance whereas the patient is the one who suffers harm. Doesn't the same scenario apply to dentists?
I think you Gigi Han can be a youtuber. Anyway, as the country progresses people are much aware of their oral health. Now you can notice many wore braces especially girls who wanted to look beautiful with beautiful set of teeth. And you can make a decent living by being a dentist and it is good to share your experience here.
Gigi Han maybe you can learn to be a plastic surgeon. Go to Korea and work there to gain experience and come back here. The girls not only they wanted a good set of teeth but nice nose and eyes. They also like to have nice boobs shape and size just to look stunning.
All the best to you Gigi Han.
after seeing this vid, i think i wanna consider about my decision for being a dentist. so whats your opinion for me in order to choose another career that are much-needy with guaranteed future? *still thinking about what course to persue in degree (consider the field of science)
Why let someone who doesn't know you determine your future? Do what you love, and monday blues never come.
Watch my other video explaining the dire situation of medical doctors: ua-cam.com/video/t7JdT6NTK4w/v-deo.html
Hi Dr. Han, I'd like to share my story as a final year BDS student.
I'm studying at a private uni, and I've begun to really regret my choice. But on the flip side, I should look at the brighter side of things that; at least, now I know. I went into BDS thinking with my intentions of being of service & help to people, in addition to giving my artistic side (I draw) an outlet. I realize that I'm not satisfied with the way the healthcare system works and often at times as a GDP, there's not much that we can do. I apologize if this seemed like a rude assumption for those actually in the field right now. Since often times when a patient comes into the clinic, their condition is most likely in the severe stage where referral would be needed.
I feel as though, I'm not helping people enough. I don't have the drive nor the financial means to go into masters, or even PhD. Dental stuff doesn't seem to click with me, everything seems so subjective and so "once-you-get-enough-experience-you'll-be-able-to-tell" kind of thing. I get that the medical field had always had that sort of subjectivity but, it seems I really couldn't bear it with my inherent anxiety.
Because of covid, my years 3 and 4 of clinics time are basically non-existent. I feel as competent as a year 3 student. Even last year when hard-MCO was less of a thing, we had such a lack of patients coming in, and the ones that would, actually were covid-positive. Which we had to close up for several weeks at a time, further diminishing our already-lacking clinics time. Right now I am severely lacking in some fields of my ECE quota, namely ICDAS 3/4, RCT and so on. It's quite sad that I wasn't allotted or found a single prostho case yet. Roughly 10 weeks remain before our final exam kicks in... My anxiey is peaking day by day. I don't feel competent to even be in the (dental) workforce.
That being said, I think I would like to change out of my job when granted the chance. Hopefully KKM kicks me out after the 1 year haha... Thinking of going into Japanese translation, I do have work experience and have worked with some industry giants from Japan during my down time years ago, I am at least confident in my translation skills to make a living out of it. Only issue barring me is; a parent who made poor financial decisions, that resulted in them being jobless, disabled to work. They want me to at least get my BDS degree, an overseas insurace they were under had allowed them to receive their salary until a specified time, which so happened to be around the time I graduate. They don't have any sort of savings whatsover, and so I'm faced with the situation of having to feed them and myself with my fresh grad salary. Dentistry stresses the ever-living heck out of me, but the situation obviously calls for me to work there as long as possible... My depression just gets worse and worse every morning I wake up, knowing that this is my future.
Thanks for sharing your story with me. If you wish to chat, hit me up on FB/IG @drgigihan
Would you say the same if someone came back to work in the country as a specialist dentist? And what would you say are the specialities that are lacking/needed in Malaysia?
Dental specialists are still in demand. But they will most likely be working in KL/Penang/JB/KCH/KK. When there is no dental insurance to cover your back, you can only be based in big cities to tackle the wealthy patients.
I think the facts of suicide depend on varying criteria eg the geographical locations and socioeconomic situations of the victims. For example, many farmers in India kill themselves when their crops fail and they are no longer able to work on the farms to repay their debts to the landowners whereas in developed countries, more suicide cases seem to come from those plagued with mental illness. The notion that dentists top the list of career professionals who take their lives seems a stretch.
What dental specialities would you say are lacking in Malaysia?
Currently dental GP is in excess as this phenomenon is a recent occurrence only started since around 2015. At the moment, only a small ratio among those who went ahead and studied masters programme to be specialists.
Hi! I'm a Canadian student who was accepted to dental school and will start in August. I'm seriously having second thoughts about this career. My true passion is medicine but only applied to dentistry because it's much easier to get into here in Canada. I don't know what to do now. If I give up dentistry, there's no guarantee that I'll get into medicine. I don't want to lose the "bird in hand" as they say. What would you do?
Hi thanks for reaching out! I do not know any colleague in Canada hence I don't know much about how Canadian dental system works there. All I can say is, 40% of my patients are international expats and those with the best quality dental work done that I've seen are Canadian patients! I believe Canada has a very healthy dental system in place for the patients and the practitioners compared to a developing nation like Malaysia.
System aside, dentistry and medicine are quite different if we compare them on the GP level (Once you choose to pursue a specific specialty in either fields then this comment may or may not change drastically):
The biggest difference between the two is hands-on skill vs diagnosis skill. A dental GP is 90% hands-on vs 10% diagnosis, as oral diseases that a dentist see and treat are usually limited to that 15-ish diseases.
While a medical GP is the other way around, it is 90% diagnosis and 10% hands-on, where you mostly need to know how to correctly diagnose a disease and prescribe the appropriate medicines and/or making the appropriate referrals.
Hope this helps. Wish you well. PM Gigi Han page on Facebook if you wish to chat more in depth with me. Although I may not be the best person to seek advice from as I do not know much about the Canadian dental system.
@@GigiHan Thanks very much for your comprehensive response! I'll be sure to reach out on Facebook. Cheers :)
after 1 year of compulsory service is it possible to apply to move to clinics from rural to somewhere in KL/Selangor ?
It depends whether or not your application can pass through. It is up to the ministry to approve, not your own will.
I didn't realize American lawsuit culture made it over to the east in any significant way. Touchy situation for all involved I'd bet. Be careful out there (not that you need to hear that, of course). Thanks for the perspective.
Don’t have to worry your is a self must do work cannot sublet like other professionals architects engineers
I believe that those who stay positive will succeed
I too, hope things are as straightforward as how you said so =)
Thanks for the enlighment brother
Its a good sdvice, especially when coughing out your own pocket to put yur children in this field.
To all out there Becareful.
Your professional is at least much better than light consultant?? For a market of one engineer there are at least Ten to twenty impersonation
At least another Impostor cannot drill on your behalf not like others proffers
The trend now is aesthetic dentist. Still earning a lot because irregardless the clients are with mild/serious problem, dentist advices to do this invxxxlign for abt RM20k. Earning a lot isn’t it?
The profession will become like hair stylists, some celebrity level professionals are earning 6 figures a month, some will have to close shop simply because cannot sustain. Different playing fields now.
Malaysia should move towards functional or biological aka whole-body dentistry. Applying the big-picture mindset by making the connection between oral and physical health and doing preventive dentistry versus reactive treatments should be the future of dentistry.
I am a dentist student @ private university 😚
good luck for you to recoup the hundreds of thousands of your tuition fees. New dentists are earning around RM3+k~4k monthly.
@@GigiHan The salary that u quoted was for private practice or gov. service?
@@uwenyeap553 New dentists NEED to go through at least a year of government service by law, hence, of course, I am referring to the monthly income of a government dentist. Mind you, a private dentist may or may not earn more than this amount.
Ok la. Subscribed already la 😉
You damn power la!
Why you are telling others not to become dentist. What about our teeth.
@guy truth
Pretty sure it was done as a clickbait
Make another video for reasons to become a dentist ^^
Under current atmosphere and seeing how newcomers are struggling, I really don't have the motivation to encourage good high school students to choose medicine/dentistry as their careers.
@@GigiHan
But I think if you do a video listing all the right reasons why one should be a dentist it would encourage the right candidates and dissuade those with misguided motives to reconsider their career choice.
50 k a month Can exchange job???
Which job can get 50k a month? Please intro lobang.
Lucky you people Era of Now everyone Can fly !!!!!???? Everyone Can be gigi dokotor Inginer Lowya Pelukis Banguntinggi
The langit no limit At least gigi need uni degree The others apprentiship Will do
Keep
this is not fair
This is the reality in Malaysia. It may be different in your country. Cheers mate.
In Malaysia you should not only become a dentist but also doctors or pharmacist too
Dentist is a doctor 😂😂