The Best Career Is the One You Create
Private practice is typically where most dental hygiene graduates find themselves immediately upon graduation. In my experience, most practices — both corporate and private — welcome new graduates and are willing to ease them into the hectic schedule that is often the norm. In today’s corporate practice settings, assisted dental hygiene is popular. In this scenario, dental hygienists are assigned a designated number of chairs for which they are responsible only for dental hygiene procedures. Dental assistants complete the operatory turnover, expose images, and, in some states, provide coronal polishing and oral health instruction. This enables dental hygienists to increase their production. Often, the dental hygienist receives compensation based on production, so the possibility of earning a substantial bonus is great. The downfall is little to no interaction with the dentist, minimal time to establish patient rapport, and the temptation to rush through procedures.
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