My majorI chose pre-dentistry. I hope to become an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. It is one of the most competitive fields in dentistry today. With this, I hope to join my father in his practice. There are many courses and degrees that a person must complete before they can become an oral surgeon. I think it would be a challenge. School will be tough, but the rewards will be endless. After college, an oral surgeon must attend dental school and then complete a five-year residency. It's a great career and I think I could make it if I tried hard enough. An oral and maxiofacial surgeon is the person you would contact to extract your wisdom teeth. That's not all they do, most of them are hospital staff, if not several. At the hospital, they work primarily in emergency rooms reconstructing faces from car accidents. Dr Donald Lewis said: “As an oral and maxillofacial surgeon we are called to the emergency room for many types of emergencies, these emergencies can range from facial infections to facial gunshot wounds and facial fractures ". A great responsibility falls on an oral surgeon. If this gunshot wound is not removed, it could result in serious injury or even death to the patient. The courses a student will be required to take are primarily sciences, primarily chemistry. I will have to take all the higher level chemistry subjects, as well as biology. These are the main courses that I will have to take; there are a few math and physics courses, they only have some in the 200s. Chemistry is necessary so that one can understand what each prescription drug does and what reactions it has with other prescriptions . Biology is necessary to know what you are operating on in the person. After completing 122 hours, I will receive a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. After I graduate, I will have to go to dental school. It will take five years. To graduate, I will need to pass a written exam from the National and State Board. After graduating from dental school, I will receive a Doctor of Dental Surgery, DDS. From dental school, I still haven't finished. From there, I have to enroll in a five-year residency program. Where I must maintain at least a 2.5 grade point average...... middle of article...... you could start your own practice or you could start working for another doctor, so to be able to take over his office when he retires. Once established, the oral surgeon can earn dollars that can run into millions, if good enough. I believe that being a physician, and specifically an oral surgeon, is one of the most rewarding careers on offer in the world today. The ability to care for people with the compassion that doctors demonstrate is truly fascinating, considering what they have to go through to get there and what they have to endure once they get there. The stress they face is incredible. When they are in the emergency room, they have to make critical decisions that could be life or death choices and they have to live with them. Then they have to worry about all the illnesses they face on a daily basis. They also have to put up with a patience that simply does not appreciate the care given to them. After all of this, they need to go home and be able to leave their frustrations behind so as not to take it out on their family. I think I would make a good oral surgeon. It would be a challenge to