two completely entire different career paths......meaning you have no clue as to what you want other than that you like science and the human body. As a critical care nurse i love my job and everything that comes along with it. If you are interested in mouths and teeth and dentistry than go the dental route, but please don't use nursing as an alternative route to DDS school because you couldn't make the cut. Nursing and Dentistry are completely different and unrelated, and is rather insulting to nursing that you chose nursing over dentistry due to grades. Nursing takes a special kind of person, as a nurse you not only have to be aware of anatomy and physiology but the human psyche. It takes a special person to care for someone for weeks and build a relationship with them, to then hold their hand as they die. It takes a special person to watch and hold someones hand as they die, and then be expected to take care of the next person as if nothing ever happened. I am proud to be a nurse and feel that it is an amazing journey in life that only a certain few are cut out for....