Why does a pre-med student decide to become a dentist?

Rooting around in strangers’ mouths does not personally inspire me. Granted, society requires dentists and they are compensated handsomely for their endeavors. Though buyer beware, some like to cut corners:

A disgraced former dentist has pleaded guilty to drilling patients with unsafe materials and illegally extracting hundreds of thousands from Medicaid, authorities said.

Michael Clair, of Crofton, Md., pleaded guilty in court to using pieces of paper clip instead of a stainless steel posts in two separate patients needing root canals, the Herald News reported.

A Crofton Office Depot employee (who wished to remain anonymous) had this to say:

It is too bad. Dr. Clair was one of our best customers. We had to order certain, unnamed items by the pallet. His arrest will leave a mark. . .

Unnamed? Um. . . Easy buttons, maybe?