Dental Pipeline Application

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Through participation within the VCU Dental Pipeline program this summer, my aspects of the dental career focused and became a little more clearer inspiring me to lean my future more into the study of different sciences. From the expanding of my horizons of career choices within the VCU and more in depth into the School of dentistry, it has left me wondering more about if dentistry is just diving into someones mouth looking for a cavity or if there is more science behind it. To be specific there are questions that are left unanswered in my mind like what are the reactions and the perfect environment/circumstances for a tooth to form, grow, operate, and thrive within the mouth. So being apart of the program can greatly benefit my knowledge in

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