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Honestly, it's not really that wise. The way medicine works, is if you do well on your USMLE step 1, and you are a citizen of the US, it's very easy to come back here and practice. You don't have to take anymore classes.
Not so with dentistry, however. After you do your 5 or 6 years in Europe, you have to get accepted all over again to dental school in the US. A foreign DDS is not valid in the US. US Dental schools only accept a handful of international dental grads per year as well. So let's say there are 25 dental schools, and 6 of them accept int'l dentists. Each has 4 spots. That's only 24 students accepted each year. They look at your GPA in dental school, research, etc.
Competition is fierce. A lot of dentists from abroad end up going into dental hygiene programs so they can work while still applying to US dental schools. So going abroad to study dentistry is a HUGE gamble, and won't save you any time really. Medicine is a hassle to study abroad as well, but nowhere near as bad.
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