Have you had the experience of not wanting to even look at your student loan balance because it never gets smaller, sometimes just keeps getting bigger, or is altogether too huge of a number that it scares you? I checked all of the above at one time or another. I’d love to say that there was some magic bullet to getting out of a mountain of debt like the $200k I accumulated from dental school. I’ve even heard of stories of dentists graduating with a half million dollars in debt when you throw in undergrad studies and specialist training afterwards. Many dentists and other professionals with this amount of debt end up resigning themselves to the idea that they will just always have a student loan payment, just like they’ll always have a car payment or a house payment. I’m here to tell you why it is of an even greater importance that you rid yourself of student loan debt in particular compared to any other type of debt. I began my journey as one who was just sick of paying my level pay...