As an OMFS resident that has a dental license, you can moonlight during the med school years if your residency permits it. I do med school 5 hours away from my residency and spend 2 years out here in West Texas. I do Year 2 & Year 3 of med school out here, and Year 2 is merely a slow review of what i already know from taking CBSE.
So I decided to rather work full time at a clinic as a dentist all throughout Year 2 med school and get paid well while gaining good dentoalveolar experience by doing all the surgical cases for them, from every type of 3rd you can think of to full mouths, biopsies, benign path. I did some fillings (300-400) last year too just because they showed up on my schedule every now and then and those are easy. The clinic has day clinic (8-5) for EXTS, exams, fillings, and anything else you feel comfortable with and wish to do. No pressure. There is also a night clinic (5-8ish) that is strictly for surgical cases where I also worked often. I worked from 45-55 hours a week, and then took my exams every 2-3 weeks considering my med school did not have attendance requirements. Id take the day off before exams, go thru all the material and take the tests. Easily doable.
As a 3rd Year med student, you are required to waste your time doing rotations during the day. I do not get done until around 4-5, so I work at the night clinic and do all surgical cases from 5-8ish, 5 nights nights a week, 2 Saturdays a month.
I do all this for the money and the experience. I have learned and done well over what what many other residents have done in regards to dentoalveolar and oral path have at this point into a 6 year OMFS residency. I have made a lot of money these last 2 years, which has permitted me to go on awesome vacations, save some money, and buy a bunch of stuff I need/want.
So when I hear that someone considers working 1-2 Saturdays a week doing hygiene, I automatically think its easily doable. Everyone works at different paces, and is efficient or inefficient in their own way. Yes we all have the same 24 hours in a day, but in my opinion dental school can easily be done well while still spending only 8-16 hours (if even that) a month doing something else like working. That much time lost should not be putting a dent in your school time or life to cause increased stress thats worth complaining or worrying about if you're doing it right. After all, how much time would anyone say they spend doing dumb stuff like checking Facebook, Instagram, snapchat, Twatter, etc that ends up likely eating up more time a month than what one may use to work instead..........