Dental degree: not a limiting factor in your career and life successes

The success stories of Nigerian dentists abound. Let us explore a few of them

Professor Joel Akinosi, rose to a great height from BDS Nigeria to the invention of a dental injection technique for tooth extraction and retired as a Maxillofacial surgeon of repute. The nonagenarian is alive in good health.

Professor Ogunbodede a community dentist, researcher of repute and excellent administrator

recently completed his tenure as the number one staff (Vice Chancellor) of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife  in Osun state.

Professor Onatolu, Odukoya a renowned dentist, academician per excellence and clinician of repute. From BDS Lagos Nigeria through Harvard University to the number one (Chief Medical Director) person that directed the affairs of the foremost health facility in Nigeria; Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) from 1999-2007 and retired in 2020 in the Department of Oral Biology and Oral Pathology LUTH. He is alive and well

Professor Adeyemo Wasiu Lanre is a dentist and specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is the current Chief Medical Director of the popular Lagos University Teaching Hospital, a tertiary health centre in Nigeria that is a force to reckon with in health care delivery in Nigeria. The Nigerian Senate committee recently commended his leadership on hospital resource management.

Dr Tahjudeen Adisa B. Sanusi, a dentist recently concluded his 5-year tenure as the registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN). The body that regulates the practice of Medicine, Dentistry and Alternative Medicine in Nigeria. He performed brilliantly well to handover to the current registrar.

Professor Abdulazeez Butali, a dentist has performed a lot of wonders with his BDS Lagos degree to become an international researcher who resides in the US. He has won several grants in the area of genomics and is still active in the business of dental research

Dr Folashade Yemi Esan a University of Ibadan-trained dentist is the current head of civil service in Nigeria with outstanding performance in her line of duties.

There are many more successful dentists in Nigeria, and too numerous to mention. Many of them operate the best dental care facilities like SCHUBBS Dental Clinic with many branches in Lagos owned by Dr Bode Karunwi and the age long dental care facility of Mrs Angela Patricia Giwa Osagie also located in Lagos Nigeria.

The majority of Nigerian dentists are professors and Drs. in Nigerian dental schools.

In essence, Dentistry as a career path is a good one with an abundance of opportunities, it does not limit anyone to be whom and what one wishes to be, and rather it can propel one to a great height.