Which is more expensive to study, dental hygenist or nursing?

Nursing... it is a longer, more detailed education.

Nursing

It depends how you plan on going about being a nurse or a hygienist. You can get an associate in nursing as an LPN or RN and you can get an associate in dental hygiene. You can also get a bachelors as a DH or a RN. Both the associates and bachelors takes pre-reqs to get in. At the very least you are looking at 2-3 years of school for either. The least expensive way to go about getting either of these degrees is to go to a comunity college and get the associates. Private colleges to get your bachelors can be very expensive.

definitely hygiene. they have to buy $3000-5000 worth of instruments in addition to tuition. the cost of the actual school is identical as they are both 4 year college degrees.

there are 2 year programs for dental hygiene but i would never hire one of those graduates.

Nursing. It is typically a 3 or 4 year course of study. Dental hygiene is only 2.

Tom:

Do you realize that all hygienists have to take the SAME dental hygiene national board to become licensed. And all hygiene students have to take the same Clinical hands on test in whichever state they are planning to practice. The associate degree in hygiene is actually a crock because you have 3 to 3.5 years of education total. That is not far behind the hours needed for a bach. degree. It is a shame that these gals that have an associate degree are frowned upon, because they take the same tests to become lic. as the bach. degree gals. And again it takes more than two years. Actually an associates in hygiene in our area colleges takes five and six semester of hygiene school only. There is a full year of pre-req's before they can ever be accepted into a hygiene program. I also have not heard of much difference in pay as I have friends that have an associate degree, as well as those of us that have a bach. (I completed mine after hygiene school) As for which is more expensive, that depends on what college you attend. If you attend a small community college that offers both hygiene and nursing, then hygiene is prob. more expensive because you have to have so many more insturments. My set-up of instruments (I had to have three) cost me a thousand dollars a piece, and this does not even include our books, stethescope, blood pressure cuff, scrubs, gloves, cover gowns, safety glasses, etc. It was an expensive education, howeve worth every penny.