You ask a great question. However, there are several things to consider.
a. Salary scope. Dentists make more money than the other two fields.
b. Professional life. Dentists and physiotherapists have long hours and optometrist have a better lifestyle.
C. Personal desire. What is your desire? You need to like one career since it is your future dream.

Education experts recommend going for scope of physiotherapy https://www.thinkfaculty.com/what-is-the-scope-of-dpt/ Blog post details on the scope, salaries and career for physiotherapists

Being a career counselor I do believe that helping people build life again is an important thing in life.

originbm:

What is the demographics you are showing me for? Are they employing more dentists now than before? The document you uploaded just shew the number of dentists. Are you making more money than before. Oga dont call me out if you dont have point. Marshall out your points.

I'm proud of you .
You made me like optometry with the way you defended it.

May I ask. Is it possible to study it outside Nigeria?

Lol if optometry is better than Dentistry ,the. Optometry is better than Medicine ,you are using patient ratio to check the lucrativeness of a course

The opportunity in BDS is very diverse,you can specialize and enter into academia and own a private clinic and still be a consultant in a teaching hospital

You can do a bridge 18months course into MBBS and still practice as a GP

If optometry is better than Dentistry then it is better than Medicine

But if it's not reverse is the case

Salary; Dentistry>physio/optometry
dentists are ranked with the highest paid professionals in the healthcare system, they are paid with the conmess salary scale, which is higher than physio/optometry

Autonomy; Dentistry>physio>optometry
only dentists are licencesed to do what they do, nobody else can do what a dentist does, but optometrists will have to compete with ophtalmologists, some countries don't even have optometrists, ophtalmologists are doing their jobs, physio is a bit better

Prestige
Dentistry>physio/optometry

dentists are doctors, and in Nigeria they can compete for any position in the hospital, physio/optometrists can't do same
dentists also use the "Dr" title without restrictions,

Lifestyle; Dentistry>physio/optometry
dentists work less than other health profession, they do not work at night and weekends...

At the end dentistry wins, go for dentistry

@Originbm guy you sphew trash
Dentistry is 100times greater than optometry, where do we start from, salary, autonomy, prestige? Or private practice? How much does a contact lens cost?
bro... Optometry is good but please don't compare it to dentistry Walk into a private dental clinic and find out the cost of an implant, brace, rct, crowning and bridging, veeners and invisalign... Dentists only compete with dentists, but optometrists have to compete with themselves and the other 2

DiazDDS:
@Originbm guy you sphew trash
Dentistry is 100times greater than optometry, where do we start from, salary, autonomy, prestige? Or private practice? How much does a contact lens cost?
bro... Optometry is good but please don't compare it to dentistry Walk into a private dental clinic and find out the cost of an implant, brace, rct, crowning and bridging, veeners and invisalign... Dentists only compete with dentists, but optometrists have to compete with themselves and the other 2

Oga dentistry is the poorest medical practice in Nigeria. Even if optometrists compete with 10 other specialties, they will still outgross dentists.
Go around and compare optometry eye clinics with dental clinics. Like I said before even a busy optician will outgross a dental clinic.
I have been in healthcare and right from the rural to highstreet practice in Nigeria, dentistry and optometry is incomparable. Not comparable. Even in hospitals, will you compare the grossing of optometry unit, not the whole eye clinic, mind you, with that of dental clinic?
What is the use of a prestige that derives its life only from referral to another profession. Dentistry will fade into professional darkness but for the patronage of organized medicine. Tell me how dentistry can sustain any amount of professional activism in Nigeria independent of medicine. A person will complain of ocular pain before dental pain. The average Nigerian will manage a toothache, but how many will manage ocular pain or vision loss? How is dentistry more prestigious than optometry? Only students hold this fallacious view because they think living in medical hostel automatically translates to more money.
What autonomy, are you talking about. An optometrist practices to the fullness of his training and competence. And nobody questions him. The only difference between the optometrist and ophthalmologist remains surgery. What percentage of eye care does surgery represent?
Imagine comparing teeth care and eye care. You are babbling, simple because, you are with NMA. Go to lagos, pick the biggest dental clinics, then compare with eye clinics. Go to rural areas organise a dental care programme, and compare with eye care programme. Please stop comparing sleep and death. There is no single advantage that dentistry has over optometry. Not one. And in grossing, please, don't compare both. Salary is not earnings. I know dentists and I know optometrists.

@Originbm "dentistry is the poorest medical profession in Nigeria" and again I ask you, what is te cost of a contact lens?
it's quite laughable, even if a dental clinic sees one patient a month, it'll still produce more money than a busy optometry practice,
go find out the costs of dental implants, crowning and bridging, Rct, braces, invisalign and veeners etc,
the real money in the medical field lies in surgical procedures, can an optometrists perform any surgery in Nigeria? haha... Bro, why will you be comparing optometry to dentistry that is basically sugery?

and what do you mean by NMA let's move abroad to the US and UK, where dentistry is not under the same regulating body with medicine, can you compare the optometry to dentistry there can you?
how many countries recognize optometry?

dentistry isn't hiding under the shadow of medicine, the regulating body is called MDCN not MCN and dentists are under NMA because they're medical professionals as well

guy, dentistry's way greater than optometry

Toothache is the second most dreadful pain in the world after labour pain, it's obvious you haven't experience a toothache before...

What advantage does dentistry have over Optometry
bro, there are many....

1. Job security/autonomy.... I mean who will ever consider an optometrist when there's an ophtalmologist I wonder why you're even blaabing, when you know for a fact that an ophtalmologist can do your job
if a dentist tells you, you need an implant, will you go to a physician for the treatment?

2. earning potential: i'm not here to drag words with you ... The saying that "people don't have teeth problem and dentists don't have patients" is now boring and very much in the past, walk into a dental clinic and see things for yourself, find out the cost of dental treatments and compare it to your optometry service

3. Higher salary: dentists are paid higher than optometrist, and you're very well aware of it
dentists can always stand out of NMA, we have NDA too, bro UK n US prove that already

@Orignbm dentistry would soon go into professional darkness Haha bro, is it because we are under NMA, dentists are under NMA, because they can't be under JOHESU, and again NMA recognizes dentists as medical professionals, we have our NDA That we advocate with, so try sth else... But you failed to ask yourself, apart from US And canada, which other country rates optometry In some european countries sef optometry is a vocational course, most countries don't even have optometrists, how many countries can you work in as an optometrist? Can you mention just one country that optometrists are paid higher or the same salary with dentists? Or even make more than dentists? You're blaabing about ocular pain, but you forgot that there are so many free eye care services in nigeria? How many people can afford to make dental care free? Or you didn't know that oral disease is the most prevalent? Bro... Cost of dental treatment is way more expensive than optometric services, so we can't even compare

It's so funny how people compare Optometry to Dentistry, same people can't compare Optometry to Medsurg ooo, lol if you say Optometry is better than dentistry then you are indirectly saying Optometry is better than Medicine lol, is there any MBBS graduate Manning a Full hospital...? They depend on salary till dey become consultants and can manage a full hospital, a dental surgeon can set up a clinic and man it fully and do small minor oral surgeries, a dentist can also be a consultant in a medical field and consult for diverse hospital and still own a private practice, a dental surgeon has many opportunities he can be CMD, he can head federal ministry of health wtf...! And you are comparing him to someone who studied in life science...? Nawa ooo guyyy Dentistry is wey bigger than Optometry the only specialty that beat dentistry in terms of lucrativeness is OBS and GYN with General surgery, even paedratric cases must pass through a general practitioner (someone who earns same salary as a general dentist) before getting to the paedratric doctor and the baby may even get healed before getting there, a neurosurgeon can not perform any surgery in the brain without a cranofacial surgeon puncturing the skull...!

Is it in academia...? A dentist can still be a lecturer with just his MSC and teach faculty of basic medical science along side working in his clinic..!

This OrigiB about what is his name is just a comedian, he hasnt visited a dental clinic ...? How many patients die of eye lens problem, a dental pain can cause total dysfunction of the whole body, he be like say oral problem never do any of your family member before...!

Dentistry beat Optometry hands down, compare Optometry to Dental therapy

In my class I have many dental therapy student who re wrote jamb to come and study dentistry after working in a dental clinic and seeing the BLOOD MONEY dentist make, they re wrote jamb and entered dentistry guyyy chill, I beat you....!

Result : Dentistry apologists 1 Vs 4 Originbm.
Originbm, you are witty and stubborn lol. One man mopol. But, dentistry apologists failed to answer why the department accepts only 25 students.

Drdonzeez:
Not exactly..but O.D is still very lucrative

You are a dentist ?

Every one of those is important for our healthy life. Choosing one of them is an absurdity, it is like choosing between your eyes or spine. Your eyes have the responsibility to take the information from the outside, to see some stimulators, to give you the possibility of orientation somewhere meanwhile your spine, support for your body, and much more. You can't live without any of those, as an example, I had one time a big necessity of finding an orthodontist amarillo being my home town. I was exasperated when I couldn't find it, happily, everything turned out to be alright but the nerves I spent on it are irreplaceable.

Dentistry and medicine are the same.One is general and the other is Dental.

We have many branches of medicine just like Opthalmology, Orthopedic, Dermatology, Gynecology not limited but include Dentistry.Dentistry was never a course done preliminary before,it started after completing general medicine,then individual who chooses to focus on oral and maxillofacial region opts for dentistry with additional 2 yrs intense and focused dental education.

It was later realised that having first degree in medicine and later specialise in dentistry was taken more years,imagine a student spending 12ys to become a certified dental surgeon.In view of this, dentistry was removed totally and reorganized into a direct degree with same course of syllabus with medicine till Part 4.So the first MB and Second MB are both taken by medicine and dentistry.Then the last two years left , medicine will resume Pediatrics, (Medicine and surgery 1,2,3(,O and G ,Com Med and graduate while dentistry will resume Medicine and surgery 1 only, pediatrics , Opthalmology,ENT,Plastic, Anaesthesia, Radiology for 1yr and write MB exam.The following 1yr+ left is for dental posting.It is only a novice will come here and compare dentistry with optometry or physiotherapy.No course is inferior to any course ,all are professional courses.Physiotherapist are lovely in practice and same to optometrist.

For medicine and dentistry,they are insaparable.As a dentist,you can spend 18mnths upon graduation to earn MBBS and as physician,you will spend 3yrs to become a dentist.Look at that!

Even as a dentist,there is radiologist,there is pathologist,there is surgeon,there is physician,there is Plastic surgeon,there is Orthopedic surgeon..lf you doubt it,kindly google the specialties in dentistry and you won't be able to close your mouth.lt is a fact not a fable.

In conclusion,l am not here to ridicule any profession.We are all important.The gross difference between medicine and dentistry is that as a dentist,you are limited as doctor to head and neck but as a physician,you can move from head to toe.And also,dental Care is less valuable compared to medical care.

Thank you all and stay blessed.

I think dentistry is better

Dentistry

LityB:
Whoever must have compared optometry with dentistry, that person must be a novice,a joker and nonentity.

First, any insult you pass on dentist,same goes to general physician.Medicine and Dentistry are the same.There is no seniority in both hence they earn the same salary,they belong to the same body and council, they sit for the same MB exams except one or two courses excluded for general Medicine.Am a part three Dentistry student and l still wonder and surprised that some will have to say dentistry is cheap and irrelevant.
honestly, not all specialties are hot cakes in medicine.opthalmology, ent,plastic surgery, git are also in category of dentistry. looking at these specialties,they are not as hot as o and g,general surgery,internal medicine, orthopedics etc.
Optometry is not in any way compared to Dentistry including physiotherapy. They are also professional courses.If you insult Dentistry, you have insulted Medicine.Why would someone now come and say Dentistry is cheap? Optometrist is technology degree,not even pure health science. Physiotherapy is an allied health science.Once you are in medical and dental school,you are automatically a medical doctor immediately you graduate.For instance,the former HOD clinical science in Oau was a dentist and presently he is the VC of Oau.Can an optometrist or physiotherapist rise to that level?

Dentistry is 7years and same to medicine.They earn the same salaries and belong to the same BMA ,mdcn,fwacs etc.lf you guys say dentistry is not as prolific or marketable as medicine,l agree and that goes to other specialties in medicine (ENT,oncology, neurosurgery, plastic )

l think only a joker as l earlier said would read this and still argue or compare a technologist and therapist with dentist.

Professor Eyitope ogunbodede is my uncle.All of us can't treat malaria and typhoid.Someone must manage dental related diseases.

LityB:


Professor Eyitope ogunbodede is my uncle.All of us can't treat malaria and typhoid.Someone must manage dental related diseases.

originbm:


Oga dentistry is the poorest medical practice in Nigeria. Even if optometrists compete with 10 other specialties, they will still outgross dentists.
Go around and compare optometry eye clinics with dental clinics. Like I said before even a busy optician will outgross a dental clinic.
I have been in healthcare and right from the rural to highstreet practice in Nigeria, dentistry and optometry is incomparable. Not comparable. Even in hospitals, will you compare the grossing of optometry unit, not the whole eye clinic, mind you, with that of dental clinic?
What is the use of a prestige that derives its life only from referral to another profession. Dentistry will fade into professional darkness but for the patronage of organized medicine. Tell me how dentistry can sustain any amount of professional activism in Nigeria independent of medicine. A person will complain of ocular pain before dental pain. The average Nigerian will manage a toothache, but how many will manage ocular pain or vision loss? How is dentistry more prestigious than optometry? Only students hold this fallacious view because they think living in medical hostel automatically translates to more money.
What autonomy, are you talking about. An optometrist practices to the fullness of his training and competence. And nobody questions him. The only difference between the optometrist and ophthalmologist remains surgery. What percentage of eye care does surgery represent?
Imagine comparing teeth care and eye care. You are babbling, simple because, you are with NMA. Go to lagos, pick the biggest dental clinics, then compare with eye clinics. Go to rural areas organise a dental care programme, and compare with eye care programme. Please stop comparing sleep and death. There is no single advantage that dentistry has over optometry. Not one. And in grossing, please, don't compare both. Salary is not earnings. I know dentists and I know optometrists.

I am disappointed in you.An optometrist that can't take vital signs.Ordinary pallor,they can't identify.Optometrist can't run a clinic anywhere except a shop where they cut glasses.Do u knw d meaning of clinic?

Originbm for don go back medical or dental school after this thread

Yes ooo�, dentistry is the best, it's just too lucrative.

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HeliumStar:


Show proof of the above, if you can't then stop spreading fallacy.

I agree with the rest of your points, though.

Go to OAU Medicine syllabus it's there, but many people don't do it doesn't mean its not possible

Froshchuksswart:
Originbm for don go back medical or dental school after this thread

Me, go back to dental school?
Am I mad.
When everything I have been saying has been verified?
Who is still comparing here...
God forbid

Froshchuksswart:
Originbm for don go back medical or dental school after this thread

God forbid your mouth.
Na so I like poverty to enter dentistry.
Everybody from 40years and above must visit an optometrist.
Till today no thriving dental clinic in Edo state, not just Benin city.
Everything I said has been confirmed.
If Dentistry is lucrative, take more than 25 students.

LityB:


I am disappointed in you.An optometrist that can't take vital signs.Ordinary pallor,they can't identify.Optometrist can't run a clinic anywhere except a shop where they cut glasses.Do u knw d meaning of clinic?

Vital signs? Haha...
Can you identify ordinary anisocoria
Can you identify RAPD
Can you differentiate btw cornea and sclera
Can you measure simple iop?
Can you identify even the simplest naevus or distinguish pterygium and pingueculum
Can u even clerk an ordinary prebyope...

Your ignorance is in thinking that you know anything. You only know about teeth. Even your professors cannot perform a simple TBUT.
I laugh.

originbm:


God forbid your mouth.
Na so I like poverty to enter dentistry.
Everybody from 40years and above must visit an optometrist.
Till today no thriving dental clinic in Edo state, not just Benin city.
Everything I said has been confirmed.
If Dentistry is lucrative, take more than 25 students.

Why would I leave an Ophthalmologist and visit an Optometrist who is not trained to treat eye diseases ideally?

The major role of an optometrist is to examine and prescribe optical aids, not to prescribe medications

Forget what you do in Nigeria. The country is one where every anomaly is allowed to thrive.

ChybuzzDD:


Why would I leave an Ophthalmologist and visit an Optometrist who is not trained to treat eye diseases ideally?

The major role of an optometrist is to examine and prescribe optical aids, not to prescribe medications

Forget what you do in Nigeria. The country is one where every anomaly is allowed to thrive.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He said optoms are not trained to treat eye diseases...
Please at least, you are not too dumb to ask google.

Just a few nuggets...
Their are four hierarchies of care in eye care practice.
They include
Refractive
Rehabilitative
Medical
Surgical.

The only one Nigerian optometrists don't do is surgical which incidentally is just about 7% of eye care.

Nobody asks you to visit an optometrist. But those that do are treated with prescription drugs of all classes.
I cant help laughing. Go to eye clinics and exhibit this your ignorance.

originbm:


🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He said optoms are not trained to treat eye diseases...
Please at least, you are not too dumb to ask google.

Just a few nuggets...
Their are four hierarchies of care in eye care practice.
They include
Refractive
Rehabilitative
Medical
Surgical.

The only one Nigerian optometrists don't do is surgical which incidentally is just about 7% of eye care.

Nobody asks you to visit an optometrist. But those that do are treated with prescription drugs of all classes.
I cant help laughing. Go to eye clinics and exhibit this your ignorance.

Look at this crazy boy.
As a doctor woth several years of experience working at the tertiary level of hospitals in Nigeria, i can comfortably tell you that optometrists are never allowed to prescribe any medication to any patients.
Any patient visiting the hospitals' eye unit belongs to the ophthalmologists. Who will allow you have that access to them in the first place before you can even prescribe the drugs you don't know much about to them?
I know far more than you do about the specific roles of the allied health professionals in the hospital settings.
Their roles within government hospitals are limited to prescribing optical aids.

It doesn't matter what you do outside/in private where there's no monitoring or regulations, just like many others practising quackery in Nigeria.

ChybuzzDD:


Look at this crazy boy.
As a doctor woth several years of experience working at the tertiary level of hospitals in Nigeria, i can comfortably tell you that optometrists are never allowed to prescribe any medication to any patients.
Any patient visiting the hospitals' eye unit belongs to the ophthalmologists. Who will allow you have that access to them in the first place before you can even prescribe the drugs you don't know much about to them?

I know far more than you do about the specific roles of the allied health professionals in the hospital settings.
Their roles within government hospitals are limited to prescribing optical aids.

It doesn't matter what you do outside/in private where there's no monitoring or regulations, just like many others practising quackery in Nigeria.

Originb Abeg come and explain

originbm:


Me, go back to dental school?
Am I mad.
When everything I have been saying has been verified?
Who is still comparing here...
God forbid

Dear originbm, you are so clueless, You know the truth, how will a person keep comparing optometry to DENTISTRY, like who does that, There are numerous fields a dentist can specialize in and these fields are among the highest paying fields in the world, is it oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, endodontics...oral pathology/Medicine.... In the uk... Dentists are widely accepted and Dentistry is the highest paying degree there... Then medicine and vet med... Orthodontics and omfs(maxillofacial surgeons) are well compensated and let's not even go to the respect and prestige accord to these professionals, you keep saying Dental clinics in Edo are not thriving, shooo how many do you know or have seen sef....

Even pediatrics dentist are doing well for themselves, do optometrists have fields they even go to....
Like there is even a big job competition for them, because there are OPTHALMOLOGIST there, who are far more qualified than an optometrist.

For a Dentist, there is no other profession out there who can do what they do, they are unique and distinct. Dentist can head a hospital, (CMD)... not so for an optometrist, the training to become a Dentist is far more gruelling, numerous exams....

You know the truth Mr Man.... If it's not Dentistry, it's not Dentistry... Peace ✌️

Even in canada, from your first search, a dentist will always be placed higher than so many other jobs, Dentist have a high job security anywhere in the world, recently said to have a whooping 99% job security...

Have a look at this, evidence de!!

https://edvoy.com/articles/highest-paying-degrees-in-uk/