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Open in new tab It certainly wasn’t a burning ambition as a kid. I suppose I wanted a profession and a job that gave me a sense of pride. So it was very much the security and prestige that drove me to dentistry. I was torn between studying English and dentistry at university. My English teacher pointed out that it is possible to do English in your spare time by reading books etc but you can’t do dentistry part time. That was good advice. Because it’s not a subject you specifically study at school the difficulty is that you don’t know what dentistry really is until you get to university. Only later on, after being in practice for a couple of years, do you truly realise what it is all about. You understand then the significance of actually caring for people and the professionalism required. As an undergraduate it seems very academic.
