 Hello everybody, Andrea here with dental L mobile hygiene. Now, are you wondering what it's like to be a mobile dental hygienist so a traveling dental hygienist where you go into people's homes, nursing homes, however you want to do things so I'm not talking about a van where you travel and you park somewhere and then patients come to you. I mean specifically you're going into patients home to perform dental hygiene treatment. So I have been a mobile dental hygienist since 2018. I've been in the dental profession for 17 years. And I love to talk to dental hygienists about mobile dental hygiene because I get two sides of the coin. I get dental hygienists who are so excited they want to do it right away. And they do great for a couple months and then I noticed they're selling all of their stuff and I kind of message them and say why are you selling everything and then they do say to me. Mobile dental hygiene just wasn't for them they didn't realize how much work goes into it. They didn't realize a lot of things and these are some of the things that dental hygienists have said to me. They realized that we have to log in so much stuff so just as an example. I saw a child patients today so two, three and four year old dental screenings what I brought with me was this it's kind of heavy. You can't tell but this is where I keep a lot of my supplies. I also brought in my mobile dental tote, where I keep my, you know, safety glasses, hair caps, my wallet, my gloves, masks, anything like that. But then I also bring in this where I have Mr Rex he comes with me to all of my appointments. I bring in the toy box that I have for kids, I bring in the disinfecting wipes, all kinds of things. Things to list all at once. But that is the least amount of equipment I have for typical appointments I actually do bring this, but it's attached to probably three times the size of this, it becomes a cart on wheels so I bring that whole thing I don't need my whole cart for children, but for adult appointments yes I do so I bring in my full cart with the wheels. I bring in a portable patient chair, I bring in a stool for me to sit on I bring a side table. I bring all of that that I had shown you my tote and this bag, but I also bring in my compressor unit with the air the water the suction if you haven't seen that yet do a search on my channel for an aseptico unit or portable compressor you will find lots of videos on that. It's about 50 pounds, it's on wheels, but it's 50 pounds kind of heavy. Plus, I bring in another tote. That's the same size as this, where I put in my compressor tub I put in my piezo unit, I put in all of the cords, all of the hoses that come with the compressor. It takes about three trips to and from the car. That is what being a mobile dental hygienist is all about. When I first started I would say for one person. It took about two hours so a full hour for a teeth cleaning, you know talking to them the medical history, all of that, and then another hour in total for the cleanup time and the setup time so I booked two hours. Sometimes I was done a bit early sometimes I was done a bit late so maybe it took two hours and 10 minutes. That's for one person, but you're lugging so many things back and forth. Basically, so it's better to see everybody in one household. I love it when I book a family because I see everybody in one health household I just bring in everything once, and there you go but sometimes that's not always the case. And I find you know, and some mobile dental hygienists do this, they have a limit of two people per household. They will not travel to somebody's house unless there's a limit of two people so there has to be two people at least. I don't do that because I don't want to. The purpose, why I'm a mobile dental hygienist is to make dental easier for everybody so I don't want to tell somebody who's super anxious one person living alone. Sorry, I won't see you because there's not two people you know I don't like to do that so sorry guys excuse me. This is live and unedited oh my God as I'm choking. Sorry guys, so I will see anybody okay because I want them to be comfortable, and that's the purpose of what I do so that is what a mobile dental hygienist is. Sometimes you see one person a day sometimes you see six people a day it truly is up to you. But I find hygienists that's what they tell me was the hardest part they didn't realize they had to love so so many things and booking in patients is like a puzzle, because if you're going to different cities each day that's too much travel time you'll just be on the road the entire time. So I like to go to one city a day. If I'm going to London as an example. I'm only going to see patients in London. What if somebody cancels well then I have to find another patient or family who lives in London who is due. I don't want to go to London and then 45 minutes out of my way to go somewhere somewhere else just to make money. So I see one city a day so a lot of hygienists have told me that's too hard for them it's just too hard to manage the schedule of a mobile dental hygienist so you're not on the road all day long. Maybe seeing one or two patients but you're in the car for four hours. Again you guys that's what being a mobile dental hygienist is all about. You have to get very good at scheduling patients and not overworking yourself either. So I'm thinking to see one patient and then say okay that was two hours of travel time one hour there one hour back I saw one patient for a two hour appointment. Oh my goodness I was gone all day, and I saw one person. It's one thing to do that and not feel overworked. Okay, sounds good you might not have made the money you wanted to but you're not overworked. I'm going to see another to see a family of six. You're excited and then oh somebody's insurance is running out tomorrow. So I'm going to see another family of two after my family of six because they're in the same city, but their insurance runs out tomorrow. You're seeing a lot of people making great money, but you're going to be exhausted at the end of the day I see a maximum of six people a day if for some reason it's a family of seven then absolutely I'm going to see that family, but I'm not going to travel to multiple households. I actually prefer to go to one household a day for adults, I don't mind traveling to different houses for children's screenings. If they're in the same city within about five or 10 minutes from each other. So all of this you guys takes practice scheduling takes practice but a lot of dental hygienists just don't want to do that. If this sounds like you if this sounds exciting to you, then being a mobile dental hygienist just might be for you because it's so rewarding. Patients always thank me patients always say, wow I didn't know this was a thing that's amazing I'm telling everybody about you because they all think I'm so special that I have a dental hygienist coming to my house well I am special patients love it, you come right to them, they don't have to take time off of work, it is so convenient they don't have to drive anywhere, you can see the entire family one day. You can be seeing the kids while the parents are cooking dinner, or the kids are doing homework while you're cleaning the parents deep. It's truly amazing and I do have a full course where I teach mobile dental hygienists how to start their own practice how to start their own mobile dental hygiene practice, but also how to have a successful one. It's one thing to start a business, but a lot of businesses fail within the first two years so it's one thing to have a business. But to have a successful one is very different so I teach dental hygienists how to do that. Literally how to work smarter and not harder I know people say that, but it's true so if you're interested in being a mobile dental hygienist I'm going to leave the link for you guys on the bottom. Mobile RDH Academy you need this course to get you started or maybe you watched the video and you said, who that sounds like a lot of work mobile dental hygiene is not for me, no thank you. And I didn't even go into the business expenses and all of that. So if you want to know more I do talk about that inside my course. Let me know you guys if you have any questions and thank you so much for watching I will see you guys in the next one.