 Hi everybody. Andrea here with dental L. So I have been a mobile dental hygienist now for several years. I've been in the dental profession for about 17 years now. And what is my typical week like right now as a mobile dental hygienist. So a lot of patients ask me, you know, are you busy. Are you not busy because of the holidays people are in holiday mode. It's the end of November. So believe it or not, unlike, or I should say similar to regular dental offices when I used to work in a dental office, it's not much different. We are very busy. So the dental profession is very busy this time of year because patients are starting to realize that their insurance is going to run out and they don't want it to go to waste because when you have dental insurance, you're paying the premium you are paying per year to have that dental insurance so if you don't use it. It's going to waste so you might as well. A lot of patients start to realize around the November mark like oh my goodness it's the end of the year. How did this happen time goes by so fast, and they want to get in as soon as possible to use up their dental insurance benefits because if you don't use it, you lose it and even in my Facebook groups, my business page I post about hey guys remember, you have dental insurance you just use it up if you want to but the thing is, I'm only one person being a mobile dental hygienist so I can only see so many people in a day. I tend to open up my office quite a bit too because I do see patients in my home office too. I'm, I'm here, more so that I can fit in more patients. So if I have patients who say like hey my insurance is running out I haven't used it all year. I want to come in as soon as possible that I'm at my home more often because I can see more people because imagine as a mobile dental hygienist we have to take into account trouble time. It might take me half an hour to get to this household, but then it takes about 20 minutes to set everything up. I might be seeing three people let's say an hour per person but then another 20 minutes to clean everything up, and then half an hour to go back home so that might not seem like a lot but at the end of the day, that could be let's say two hours per household extra, that if I'm at my home office, I can literally see two extra patients in those two hours. So I of course still go mobile but I do try to stay home a bit more to bring people in who really want to be seen. I let them know if you can make it to my home office, I can see you sooner because I do have to tell some people, there's not enough people in the day I cannot see you like unless somebody cancels, and I'm calling you on short notice but I can't there's no time. In fact, as of right now I'm fully booked until January but I am opening up more slots so I can see people at my home and my short notice list is like a mile long for people who want to be seen sooner. And guess what I take time off during the holidays to I typically take two weeks off so not just a couple days, but I take two weeks off because it's nice to spend time right with friends and family so why not. But otherwise, as a mobile dental hygienist around this time. Things are just busy because it's the end of the year stuff for somebody who has her own business. I have to look into you know keeping track of everything I'm doing my own paperwork. It's the end of the year so I am thinking tax time right I'm thinking well how much did I make this year. How much did I make this month last month I get everything together for my accountant. So not just being a mobile dental hygienist but also the business person the business side of things, because I don't have an assistant, I don't have somebody helping me with the paperwork, booking appointments scheduling calling patients. I'm a one woman show so things are even busier towards the end of the year but I'm also that person who definitely gets into the holiday mode. I'm almost done my Christmas shopping by the way I tend to start early. I want to say I don't work as much but that's not true because I did add in some more some some more hours to see more people but I do take two weeks off next month in December. I am an instructor as well so I teach online. And right now I am helping a dental hygienist who have been audited with their portfolios and practice profile so don't worry if you don't know what that is just a little I guess recap is here in the portfolio. Every six years minimum a dental hygienist is audited so it doesn't mean you did anything wrong, but we have to submit a full portfolio on on the continuing education courses we have been taking. We need to submit information about our practice, whether we're working in a dental office or a mobile dental hygienist. So we have to do all of that by January will buy the end of January of the next year so I help dental hygienist do that and it's really busy because everybody wants to get that done before the holidays so I'm not just a mobile dental hygienist I kind of do many, many things. And as I mentioned I'm an instructor as well so I teach dental hygiene students and dental hygiene students pass their national board exam and in December is another round of students taking the board exam. It's, it's usually December, maybe March and then April and then September so there's several times throughout the year depending on your location. I'm teaching tutoring all year long, but the end of the year again especially because people are thinking, especially if they're taking the board exam in December like oh I should really get studying for this, because it's either just before Christmas or just after Christmas. I want to say it's typically just before Christmas so people want to get their studying in so things have been busy and patients have been wonderful so on the mobile dental hygiene side. It's been fantastic. They want their teeth cleaned they want to use up their insurance. I see as many people as I possibly can and the fun thing is, a lot of families book around this time because they might be taking some time off for the holidays so everybody's going to want their teeth cleaned so it's wonderful so just kind of a quick recap of what my week has been like. Comment below if you guys have any questions make sure to click like if you don't mind because it does help support this channel. 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