 Hello everybody, Andrea Mayeski here with Dentilel. I'm just going to quickly show you guys around the 2018 suggested FIGIDE for dental hygienists. So they're really hard to find at least it was hard for me to find the FIGIDE The 2019 one just hasn't been out yet. We do have the codes, but not the prices So I'm just going to show you guys around the 2018 FIGIDE in case you were curious I have owned my Dental hygiene mobile practice since last year I love it and I'm just going to explain sort of where and how I Changed the fees a little bit. So for most things what I do Oh, sorry, I should go a little bit slower and feel free to stop the video if you need to see a code for a little bit longer But just remember this is 2018 not 2019. So some of the codes have changed not many But some of them have so I always round up. So instead of let's say I'm doing Let's just say let me pick one since I don't do x-rays. Let me just move down here And it's not that I don't do x-rays. I should clarify Since I'm a Dental hygienist who owns my own practice I don't have an x-ray machine and I don't have a dentist that works with me So no, I don't do x-rays for that purpose But I do tell every patient that I see to see a dentist at least once a year and they can do exam The dental exam and the x-rays there, but just as an example talking about the fee So each unit of time in Ontario is a whole 50 minutes So for scaling, so if I'm charging for one unit of time, so that is uh 15 minutes I will charge $5 so it says here at 54 80 That's the suggested fee guide, but I always round up not much But I think it's just easier to do the math and since I do offer a mobile service I'm I'm providing a service for them anyway. So to charge like 20 cents more I don't think they would hate me for that, right? So just to kind of go down but like I said feel free to stop the video if you would like to see the codes and the And the fees a little bit more Stain removal is the polisher or sorry the polishing otherwise known as the pro fee here in Ontario We typically bill half the unit of time Even if insurance covers one full unit of time and that's because I don't know anybody who polishes for 15 minutes If they have a lot of stain or and or a lot of plaque and I'm polishing at the beginning of this Scale, but then I have to polish again at the end that might be closer to 10 minutes So then I would charge a unit of time If it's the closer to the 15 minute mark and not closer to the seven minute mark But just to kind of show you guys what I do everybody's a little bit different So I'm just I'm not going to explain all the all the codes for you because you don't have time for that But I just wanted to show you guys the codes here And if I come across something that I want to talk about that's just kind of what I'm doing Um fluoride application. So I do apply a fluoride Varnish, where are you right here on almost all of my patients because I feel they need it If their teeth are cold sensitive if their enamel is thin Worn You name it. Oh, sorry my my puppy just made a weird noise. I have three dogs. So they're just playing Oh, I'm just gonna shut the door. They're being silly Sorry guys, this is what happens when you work from home and you don't have patients You are on youtube uploading a feed guide and you forget to shut the door for the dogs. Sorry guys But yeah, so there's many different kinds that you can pick from A lot of these codes down here if you're not a restorative hygienist in ontario And if you don't work with a dentist then they won't apply to you But that's just why i'm kind of moving forward for whitening everybody always asks me about whitening I charge $150 for a whitening you can pretty much charge whatever you want um because I do about half an hour for my Whitening that I use. Yeah, it's about a half an hour. So that's two units of time 97 plus So that's why I charge 150 But if a patient gets a cleaning done as well, I did have a promotion last month of $90 whitening if they get The cleaning too. So I might be changing the prices for the whitening. It just depends on what I'm purchasing at the time I'm I'm currently trying out a few different ones to see what I like The most and then depending on the price that I pay Will be the price that the patient pays plus a little bit more Um, what else let's see some kind of moving through these fast again, but please stop the video if you want to see more Um anesthetic. We don't do that here in ontario. We're not able to administer that Unless of course we're with a dentist and they're the ones doing it Um in ontario here, you don't charge for counseling. I've never heard of a hygienist doing that We just do it anyway But look, we'd be making a fortune if we did but I don't even know if that's covered by insurance So in ontario patients seem to be very Insurance driven so that might not be the best option for them. I do charge um oral hygiene instruction um per every new patient because I do talk about that at every single appointment i'm not charging them every single appointment, but When i'm taking the time say 20 minutes per appointment. Well, you should be charging for that right in my opinion You charge for your time. So if you're taking the time to do that, then I think you should I typically charge um half the unit of time at the new patient exam or one unit of time I don't charge more than that because as you can see the price tends to go up Do I feel that me talking about brushing and flossing is 169 dollars worth? No But is it 43 dollars worth over a lifetime for the patient? I think so. So that's just why I do that I wanted to mention I do I do go to people's houses to clean their teeth. I go to offices Pretty much everywhere, but I don't charge extra for that simply because this is the only way I can see my patients When I start having a office in my home Then I would charge extra to see patients at their home if they're capable of coming to my home So I would not charge extra to somebody who's in a nursing home Just because it makes me feel good that I can go to them to give them the care that they need But if I'm seeing just hypothetically a 35 year old patient who's perfectly healthy And you know, they are able to come to my office. Then that would be great me Going to them. I might charge like an extra 20 dollars more like I don't see me charging Um 71 dollars more, but I might charge 20 dollars more when the time comes and when I have my own office But I'm not currently charging any of this yet Um, okay guys, and then we just have a standard claim form there in case you guys want to see that But um, yeah, I do have this inside my course Um mobile rdh academy if you are a dental hygienist watching this I do offer full help Um, if you want to start your own practice, I literally help you from step one to step I don't know 100. I don't think there's 100 steps, but you get the idea So I do help you through everything because I know it is overwhelming to start your own practice I know you have to be motivated. There's a lot of ups and downs, but trust me. It's so worth it So if you are interested in that I will leave the link for you guys on the bottom But feel free to comment if you guys have any questions. I am so happy to help Thank you so much for listening and I'll see you guys very very soon