 Hello everybody, Andrew Majeski here with Dental L. In the video, I'm going to talk to you guys about how I thought about starting my own dental hygiene mobile practice. How things have been going so far, because I did start the practice last year, and just a little bit about that, because I mean, when I was a dental hygiene student, it didn't even occur to me that I would open up my own practice. Who was that person who said, well, somebody else can do it? That's a lot of responsibility. No thank you, no. You know, it's true. No thank you, no way. Let's just have that stuff dealing with somebody else, right? Because we in Ontario, so depending on where you're watching this from, you might not be able to open up your own practice, so keep that in mind. But I'm in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, so we have been able to start our own dental hygiene practice since 2007. I was still in school at that point. I took dental hygiene twice, because the first time I went to the dental hygiene program after about, I was three weeks away from graduating and the school shut down because it had gone bankrupt. Yes, so I took it twice, but anyway, that's another story for another day. I'm sure I have a video about that somewhere, so if you would like to learn more about that, do a search for, I failed twice, something like that, and then you will find it. But as I said, I never thought that that would be me. So why did I start up my own dental hygiene practice last year? Now, I'm motivated, so when I put my mind to something, I just do it. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, it's up to who you're talking to, but I just do it. And last year, my grandparents have been in a nursing home now for over a year, a year and a half now, probably almost two years. And I started to realize, oh my goodness, their oral hygiene, their teeth are not being looked after. And once you see somebody you care about, you go, okay, well, I need to fix this. I'm a dental hygienist. I can't just ignore the fact that every time I see them, their teeth aren't in the best of shape, right? So I did it initially to help them. But then once you look through expenses, you know, everything that you do have to do to start and run your own practice, it just makes sense to help other people too, you know, not just my, you know, family, you know, all of that. So things add up, costs add up. I got a sterilizer for my home, $10,000. I got a piezo, you know, instruments, masks, all kinds of stuff, right? Things add up. So $30,000 later, I said, okay, you know what, let's just make this a thing. Like this is going to be what I'm going to do. I do still work in another office twice a week, sometimes three times a week, because it's nice to have the benefits. Okay, that's why I'm still doing it. I don't know if I will always be able to do that just because even now, things are getting busy. Okay, busy, busy, which is a good thing, right? That is a good problem to have. But lately I've been getting so busy where I'm trying to determine, okay, I will go to London to see four patients in this state. I will go to Woodstock to see four patients this day, you know, which is, which is excellent. So take a step back. I should have mentioned, if you didn't know, that I do own my own mobile hygiene practice. So it's not where the patients come to me. I go to them. So the key is to see hopefully more than one patient in the same area. So I like seeing two or more people at a time because I don't have to clean up, set up, move somewhere else. Clean up, set up, move somewhere else. Set up, clean up, move somewhere else. You get the idea, right? But being a mobile dental hygienist means, you know, that's what I do. I go to people's homes. I go to people's offices. So that's where they go, oh, somebody comes to me, that's amazing. My business model would be different if I had the patients come to me. And my whole mission statement is, I make things easy because I come to you. If patients were coming to me, then that would just be completely different, right? So I did. I wanted to do something different. I love to go to nursing homes because if you guys know anybody in a nurse's home, for them to leave and go to any appointments, depending on the state of, you know, health, they're in, they're loved ones, they're caregivers have to take the day off work, literally, because let's just say they're in a wheelchair. You need special transportation for that, right? And that bus, that, you know, van doesn't always come on time. So you might book the van for nine o'clock because you have an appointment at 10 o'clock. Well, the van shows up at 10 o'clock. So then you have to hope you can push your other appointments back. But then it's a whole, it's just a whole day thing. Okay, it is not a bad thing, but it's definitely a whole day thing. So I take that away that, you know, stress away, and I just go right to them so I can solve that problem for them. And that's the best thing ever. Another thing are nervous patients who say, I haven't been to the dentist in 10 years because I'm terrified. I am literally terrified. I'm not excited to see you either, Andrea, but maybe if you come to me, that whole being nervous might be a lot less. And it is, it works every time. Every patient that I have seen in their home who have said to me, I was nervous, but seeing you things just feel different. You're doing the same things, but it feels different because you're coming to me. So that's excellent. I love helping people. I am so happy to do it. It is the best thing ever. But don't let anything fool you. Okay, it's not easy. Starting up your own business is not easy because it is a risk. I had zero patients, you guys. You know, I had no customers, zero, none. You have to start somewhere and that can be terrifying because here I put in about $30,000 of a loan, so it's not technically my money because I'm paying it back, but you know what I mean. $30,000 that I have to think, okay, I don't have that. How am I going to make my loan monthly payments, right? How am I going to do that? So you have to work hard. You have to see patients. Well, how am I going to get patients? You know, I've never done this before. You know, how am I going to do this? You have to work hard, you guys. It's not easy. If it was easy, everybody would do it. But if you're motivated, if you are determined, you can do it. And that's why I started my course, Mobile RDH Academy last year too, because I go over in that course step by step. All of my notes, my whole thought process on everything. I talk about how I thought about opening up my own business to actually doing it to, okay, this is it, you guys. Here we go. Day one to day seven to day like 30. I talk about everything that I did wrong. I talk about everything that I had done right and what sets me apart and what I'm doing now. So then hopefully I can help you or other people start their own practice. Now, I do have a mobile practice, so it's a little bit different. But the marketing, the having to pay lots of money is all the same. Okay, so I do kind of talk about all of that because I know a lot of dental hygienists who I talked to before say to me, don't do it. It is too hard. Don't do it. I was doing it for a year and then I just gave up. And here I'm thinking, oh my God, that sounds horrible. Well, no, I'm excited to open up my own practice. I'm going to do it. I was kind of looking for advice, not don't do it. So you can do it. So I am here to offer you something different and to say you can do it. If you want to open up your own practice, you can do it. Hopefully where you live, you can do it. But if you can't, well, I can't help you with that, unfortunately. Thank you guys for listening. Let me know if you have any questions opening up my own mobile dental hygiene business has been the best thing ever because I can talk to patients how I want to talk to patients, I can do everything. How I want to do it and I am picky. So I do everything by the book. You should see all of the, you know, paperwork, like manuals policies that I have. And I'm just me, I'm one person, but I have done everything by the book and that is exciting, because I just do I just, I love it. And I want you all to do the same thing. If that's what you want to do. If you need help, let me know. I am always here and have a good Sunday. I will see you guys in the next video.