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Dental Fun Facts!
100

AADSAS is the centralized application portal used by almost all U.S. dental schools.

What is AADSAS?

100

powerhouse or battery of the cell. 

What is mitochondrion? 

100

States of matter

What is solid, liquid, and gas (vapour)?

100

This functional group contains a carbonyl bonded to an –OH group.

What is a carboxylic acid?

100

This part of the tooth is the hardest substance in the entire human body, even harder than bone.

What is enamel?

200

Rolling admissions means dental schools review and accept applications as they come in, not all at once after the deadline.

What is rolling admissions

200

Pleiotropy is when one gene affects multiple, seemingly unrelated traits.

What is pleiotropy

200

Gibbs free energy (ΔG) tells you whether a reaction is spontaneous (happens on its own) or non‑spontaneous (needs energy).

What is ΔG = ΔH – TΔS?

200

the best leaving group in a substitution reaction of an alkyl halide 


Bromine

200

the first "toothbrush" was invented in ______

Egypt 

300

June 1st

When does the Dental School Application Portal open to submit? 

300

DNA polymerase III is the main enzyme that synthesizes new DNA strands during bacterial DNA replication.

What is DNA polymerase III?

300

The heat required to raise 1 g of a substance by 1°C.

What is specific heat capacity?

300

This elimination mechanism requires a strong base and a β‑hydrogen anti‑periplanar to the leaving group.

What is E2?

300

Primary teeth, commonly known as baby teeth, milk teeth, or deciduous teeth, are the first set of teeth to develop in humans and other mammals.

What are primary teeth?

400

Shadowing, Assisting and volunteering

What are clinical experiences?

400

The phases of mitosis

What is PMAT (Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telophase) 
400

This ion determines the pH of a weak acid solution.

What is H₃O⁺?

400

This term describes molecules with chiral centers but an internal plane of symmetry.

What are meso compounds?

400

The average American spends _____total days brushing their teeth during their lifetime.

- 49

- 38

- 27 

- 56

38 days!

500

Average dental school acceptance rate

What is 6.98%?

500

Disruptive selection is a type of natural selection that favors both extreme phenotypes while selecting against the intermediate phenotype.

What is disruptive selection?

500

This equation predicts non‑standard cell potentials.

What is the Nernst equation?

500

This functional group features a carbon triple‑bonded to nitrogen.

What is a nitrile?

500

Teeth become sensitive to cold when the protective enamel or gums no longer shield the inner layer of the tooth  the dentin — allowing cold sensations to reach the nerve.

What is dentin?

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