Category Archives: Student Loans

The importance of keeping up with student loan changes

Student loans quietly shape many of the biggest decisions in a dentist’s life: where we work, how much we work and when we feel financially ready to buy a home or start a family. Yet repayment and forgiveness rules are complex, constantly changing and easy to postpone dealing with. For me, postponing wasn’t an option. As a father… Read More »

Managing student loan debt as a new dentist

As new dentists, we can all remember that gut-wrenching moment when we received an email from our loan servicer warning us that our payments would be due soon. Looking back at our time as dental students, we spent years learning the intricacies of prepping the most ideal class II restoration, administering anesthetic and memorizing mnemonics in order to… Read More »