I remember when we meet our dean on the first day, she explained to us why dentistry is so expensive (not juz imu, but all the other uni in the world). To let u all know, dentistry cost more because we need to spend a lot on facilities, dental materials, instruments, devices, lab machines and especially dental chairs (u'll be surprised to see how much materials and instruments we use, and how expensive the things are if u enrolled into dentistry). Compare to our medical frens, they just need a clinical skill room with a bed, table, some medical device which can be shared,and etc, but we need our own set of instrument for our learning process and treating patient. For instance, one small instrument can easily cost more than RM100, and imagine each of us has a box of instument. Plus, dental chair can cost more than RM100K depending on the brand and function of the dental chair.

And yes, I admit that our fees is expensive. But the money is used to set up our lab and clinic and buying materials, instruments, machines and dental chairs of good quality. Our clinics is really luxurious, and the dental chair we are using is like the mecedes benz of dental chair and that's where all the money goes. I can only say u get what u pay for, despite i still think it's expensive compare to other uni, but expenses in KL is higher too. The dental chairs is definitely sufficient to accomodate our needs, as there are only 3rd year and 2nd year student used it sometimes and we are using it in different time. The reason we pair up is not because we have not enough chair, but it's because we practice 4-handed dentistry, which means there is a operator and an asistant during our treatment and we take turn to become operator and assistant.  The same goes to the dental lab too. The downside is, coz material is so expensive, occasionally they control the material that we use, juz occzsionally. And I would say our fees are more worth than medical student as they only have 2 hrs lecture everyday while we have whole day lecture, labs, etc(which means hectic..)