 Hello everybody, Andrea Maesdi here. It's really sunny coming through here So I hope the video quality won't be too bad. So I apologize in advance But what I want to talk to you guys about today is if you're thinking about starting your own dental hygiene practice But you're nervous because you don't know what to do Where to start you don't know anybody who might have their own or you just don't know who to talk to and it just probably seems very Overwhelming and very daunting to you But let me tell you that those are completely Normal if you weren't nervous if you weren't concerned if you weren't worried about Following the rules and doing all of the right things and that wouldn't be normal I had started my dental hygiene practice about a year ago in November. So November 20 What's the year November 2018 and Let me tell you I didn't know anything. I have not opened up my own practice. I have not Had any reception experience or like business manager experience none of that I was a dental receptionist back when I was a dental assistant at age 19 But that was so long ago, but I don't really consider that any experience But I just started it because I want to now granted You probably have to have that personality where you're motivated to just do it because if you don't Then you likely won't be able to get started and move past all of the hurdles that you will have to do and by hurdles I mean having to realize how much it costs to open up your own business Whether you want a mobile practice where you go to people's homes or you have your own Dental hygiene office in your own home like I do Plus I do have a mobile one also But or if you want to open up at a storefront somewhere So all of those have different hurdles if you think about it if you have a mobile practice That's probably the easiest way to go hurdle wise because you don't have all the additional Expenses of a physical location, but it's not easy because you have to go to people's houses You can only see a certain amount of people per day because you're going to other people's houses You you need to plan your time accordingly. So you're not you know going all over the place And just hopefully staying in one location or two I talked more about my mobile practice and how I keep that organized a lot of mistakes And I did make at first because I had nobody to talk to but I talked about all of that in another video So we don't have to talk about that now, but this is just mainly talking about I want you guys to just go for it Like I want you to be inspired to go for it I get many messages like many messages every single day from people saying I am so Jealous basically of what you do you do because I would love to do that and I say well Why not go for it if you need help? I'm here to help you, you know, I'm not perfect diet trust me I Still don't know everything insurance is one of them I had started direct billing Maybe like three months ago. So I'm dealing with all of the insurance stuff now and trust me I have so much to learn every day. It's so much work Mainly because I don't know what I'm doing. So I do ask a lot of questions But did that stop me from opening up my own dental hygiene practice? No, the fact that I don't know anything about insurance Did that stop me from not being able to bill out to the insurance companies and make more money in the long run? No, because initially I was seeing patients where it was cash only But people don't have that kind of cash. So they would go somewhere else Once they they knew that I could submit it to their insurance first They were all for it and I started seeing patients like crazy So many patients where I've had to say I'm booking a month out, you know, which is pretty good for somebody who just started, right? So just do it you guys if you want to do it But having that said it depends on where you live because not everybody can start their own dental hygiene practice Which is sad, but thankfully where I am we can so I took full advantage I hope this helped you. Please let me know if you have any questions But if you're thinking oh, I don't know if I can do it Just do it. Just do it if you're really that nervous that of course do some research first, you know See, well, can I afford it? If I can't how do I take it alone? How do I plan to pay off the loan? How do I plan to get patients all of that? Think about it Do the research if you need help? I do have a course to help you called Mobile RDH Academy where I go through everything literally There's no stone. That's not turned over where I talk about everything From when I had first started even just thinking about my own practice. I I actually talk about my Thoughts through the whole thing. In fact, I do have a video where I had just got Done a meeting talking to a dental company rep to order a Sterilizer a piezo all kinds of things and in the video. I was kind of like oh my god, you guys I think I'm gonna throw up like that's how honest I am Okay, so that course will help you even if you're still not sure if this is for you Take that course and then you will have a pretty darn good idea afterwards the good the bad everything you guys I share it all and I continue to do updates inside that course because there's so much To learn so many new things are coming up. So thank you guys so much for listening if you haven't yet Please make sure to click like Like so I know people are actually watching and click subscribe as well because as of today We have ten thousand two hundred subscribers, which is kind of cool It doesn't mean anything for me like I'm not making any money off of YouTube or anything It's just kind of neat for me to see that people are actually watching and listening to me So have a have a have an amazing day and I'll talk to you guys very soon. Thanks so much for listening