 Hello everybody Andrea here with dental L. So if you are able to have your own dental hygiene practice it does depend on your location. If you're not sure please check with your dental hygiene association if you are able to have one some areas can't. And some areas cannot I am personally in Ontario. So in Ontario we do need to become a self initiated dental hygienist. We can take a course for that several other things but then we can have our own dental hygiene practice. But what I want to talk to you guys in this video today is I want to talk to you guys about what if you're on the fence of. Well should I have my own dental hygiene practice or should I just continue working for a dental office so I'm going to give you some key points here that you really need to think about like both are good. And not so good but I'm going to give you guys different sides of the coin to really help you guys decide if having your own mobile dental hygiene business is best for you. So I'm going to talk about dental hygiene practices in general, but just so you know I am specific to a mobile dental hygiene practice so I see patients in their own home. I travel to them I bring in all of my equipment into their own home, but I also see patients in one room in my home so I do a little bit of both. I do not work in a full practice, I do not have a separate business like brick type location. Okay, so it's mobile and in my own home okay but what I'm going to talk to you guys about is going to be the same thing regardless it doesn't matter if you are thinking about having your own standalone business or not. So what I'm going to talk to you guys about what it's like having your own dental hygiene practice versus working for a dentist or working for somebody else so the first question. People always ask me is do you make enough money. Are you going to be in the red. Okay, so I've had my own dental hygiene practice since late 2018. Yes, you make much better money than if you worked for a dental office to look at it this way. When I worked at a dental office when I left. I was making $45 per hour. And I was working like Monday to Friday, some Saturdays actually as well from eight till six, hardly getting a lunch, seeing a lot of patients every day I was exhausted and making $45 per hour. That's pretty good money though right like $45 per hour is pretty good. Now in my own practice I set my own schedule. What my day looks like is I work typically 10am till two. I don't start earlier than 10am you guys I'm not a morning person but guess what I can do that 10am till about two. How many hours is that that's not a full day. 10am by two 30 typically again I travel right so some of that does involve travel time, but 10am till 2pm, and I can make anywhere depending on what type of patient I'm seeing, whether it's a new patient exam, a child adult or a new patient care if it's teeth whining. Let's just say on average I make about $200 a person. That's a lot better than $45 a person right $200 a person versus $45 a person well geez which one am I going to pick right. Again, it does depend on the types of patients I'm seeing. So, yes, you make better money, but another kind of side note to that as well as well you have to find your own patients. In the office they basically come to you because the business has been established it's been set up. So you do need to advertise you need to market you need to find your own patients. You will not be making money unless you find your own patients, patients aren't going to magically come to you, especially a mobile dental hygienist. Nobody's heard of it. It's very very rare, you might have one or two in your area, if that, in my area. I'm the only one. There's a mobile hygienist about two hours away, and then I know of a couple more like two hours away the other way closer to Toronto, but in my area. I'm the only one. That's a great thing because I have all of these patients but that also means I get a lot of the what is the mobile dental hygienist can you explain it to me before I book with you it sounds kind of weird you know you never know right. So, you have to find your own patients. If you don't you're not going to make that money. If you need help by the way I'm going to leave the link down below. I do have a course called mobile rdh Academy. The course has been in the working since 2019, where I teach you guys step by step how to have your own mobile dental hygiene business and or one in your own home. So it kind of works together. I go step by step I teach you like this so I talked to you guys in video, step by step where I talked to you guys about how to take it alone if you need one. I talk about business credit cards I talked about business bank accounts, but then I go into to talk about what a typical day is like what you're going to need to buy what you might want to save your money on what you should buy right away. So how much money you should expect to spend the first year. Don't worry you guys I talk about all of that. But then let's move on here. So a lot of dental hygienists that's another thing that they say to me as well. You know, am I going to have a lot of expenses when I work for a dentist when I work for for somebody else I don't have expenses. I work during the day, I come home I don't have to think about work I don't have there's no expenses if I need something the dentist typically buys it for me. I don't have expenses so is that a lot of money. Well, yes, you're going to have expenses of course you will with any business you're going to have expenses. But keep in mind more of your expenses are going to be the first year, because you're going to need to buy things that you don't have yet. The first year I had to buy a portable chair because I'm going portable to patients homes. I had to buy a stool for me to sit in I had to buy some end tables because sometimes patients don't have end table so there's actual portable tables that like fold over that I can put in my car. I wanted to buy some new instruments so I had to do that bibs masks polishing cups a polisher. Any type of materials. So there's more you have to buy the first year I bought a sterilizer. I bought a new laptop because I didn't have one and I kind of need to travel with that portably, but I needed to get a good one that was good enough for my dream software. So I could submit things electronically to patients insurance you get the idea right. So there's a lot of expenses the first year but if you have a good accountant. They can help you with all of that because business expenses are tax deductible. I mean you get like a tax credit for them. You write them off. So just as an example in 2021 I had $30,000 of expenses. I thought though you guys if you think about it, I do not work nine to five every day. If I did think about it working nine to five every day $200 a person. How much money are you going to make you're going to do amazing $30,000 and expenses is nothing and you get a tax credit for that you have to remember that. Again you guys do you want to work for a dental office where you don't have to worry about any of that. Maybe you do maybe that's more comforting to you, or do you want your own business where you run the show, but you have to deal with all of that you know accountants you have to be organized. If you're a mobile dental hygienist you have to keep track of transportation. I could go on here. So those are the main things though that you want to think about I talked about this more inside the mobile rdh Academy as well. Definitely check it out if you're thinking about having your own dental hygiene practice. And with all the points that I just mentioned, if you're thinking, I want to go for everything that Andrea just said. Oh my goodness, I don't want to work for him anymore him or her. I want to have my own business. This sounds incredible. And these points that I mentioned scare you and you're kind of like, Oh my God, I'm going to have $30,000 of expenses. I'm going to have to take it alone the first year. What if I can't find patients what am I, you know, if those scare you maybe think about it a little bit more but also keep in mind, I can help you, I can be your support system inside my course the mobile rdh Academy I teach you guys all of this. How to be organized how to manage expenses. I even teach you guys how to get patients I teach you guys how I do it. I have at least 20 new patients a month at least I've checked at least 20 new patients a month. dental offices are lucky to have 10 new patients a month. And how many patients do dental offices have. I'm a dental hygiene practice if I can have 20 new patients a month I can absolutely help you have a successful business so this is where I come in I can help you. So inside the mobile rdh Academy I give everything to you. If you feel like you do need more help or more kind of one on one I do offer private business coaching as well, specific to dental hygienists starting their own practice. Either if you want your own dental hygiene practice, or a teeth winding practice as well kind of anything dental hygiene related, I can help you guys with. Okay. So let me know if any questions, please click like to this video if you haven't yet that does help me in my channel I really appreciate it. I'm going to give you guys up the link below to the mobile rdh Academy check it out and comment if you guys have any questions. Okay. Thank you guys very much I'll talk to you soon and happy Monday.