 Hello everybody Andrea here. So a common question that I am asked often as a mobile dental hygienist is how do I book my appointments. How do I make it work and do I make money doing it because I'm going to patients homes I'm not simply seeing 10 patients a day one after another. I have to include travel time so what I do is I go to different cities per day, and I plan out my own schedule, believe it or not you guys, I don't want to see eight or 10 patients a day, I don't want to work nine to five. One of the amazing things of having my own mobile dental hygiene practice is I can pick my own schedule. Typically, I might see patients let's say from 10 till to sometimes it's going to be 10 till five sometimes it's going to be 12 till seven. It really depends on kind of what I want to do. If I see a family of five or six that is going to take me longer than if I say see two adult patients but the main thing that I do do is I book different cities per day, because I don't want to go to one city and then travel two hours out of my way to go to another city for the next appointment and then to have to travel back home. That doesn't make sense so certain days per cities and patients are booked that way. If I have a new patient who says they want me to look at their two year old daughter for let's say a dental screening and they live in London. For that patient that's typically going to take half an hour because it's for a two year old. It's just simply me having a look see how everything looks inside the mouth. I'm not going to go to let's say they live in London. I'm not going to go to London for a half an hour and just book that one patient so I'm not going to go to London only for that patient. For child patients, I like to book them after other appointments. So if I was going to London anyway to see a couple. Let's say they want to have their teeth cleaned you know same day one after another, then I'm going to book that patient if I can after I see that couple. I don't always book let's say I don't necessarily look to see okay is this patient 10 minutes away from my other patient or is it 20 minutes away from my my other patient. That might be too hard to hurt to manage so it's just simply per city, a city like London Ontario though to get from one city to the other part of the city can take 45 minutes so I do ask what part of London somebody lives in and I do plan according to that, but I'm not going to worry let's say a place like St Thomas where everything's within 1020 minutes I'm not going to worry booking that way. That seems to work for me, let's say I see a family of five that will take me all day. I'm not going to book another household after that because as a dental hygienist we get sore because we are you know hunched over the whole time for a family of five I'm just going to see that one household that day for child patients, I'm not going to go to three or four households I'm going to book differently so even though a child might take half an hour, maybe 45 minutes, you might be thinking that's only a half an hour. I need more than a half an hours of pay to really pay the bills. So how do you manage that I don't see just children one day, where I'm going to four or five different households, I'm going to plan children, along with other appointments. Of course, if the children and adults are in the same household, perfect. Then that's just one household that I have to go to, and I see everybody so I love seeing a family because that helps them. That helps me they have their teeth cleaned all the same day it's fantastic. But if I'm seeing one two year old child for a teeth screening. I'm going to be at 10am and then 11am at another household and then 12 another household, I don't do that because that would be too much traveling and too much loading everything in and out of the car so if I'm just seeing a child or children in a household and the adults haven't booked for themselves, then I'm going to keep those appointments. If I'm going to that city to see another household for a family or adults anyway so I'm not making too many unnecessary trips. So that's what's important as a mobile hygienist is to really plan your time plan your schedule so you're still making money, but you're not traveling all over the place but I love being a mobile dental hygienist I could never work in an office again. Once you go into the office you go into the operatory, everything's there waiting for you, if you forgot something you just have to go into the next room, the dental assistant might seat your patient, they might sign out your patient. Easy, but no I much prefer being the dental assistant the dental receptionist everything in my own business. I prefer doing it all and having my own schedule but it's not for everybody so it really depends on kind of what you like to do. If you want to make your own schedule be done at two o'clock some days. Take your own time off whenever you want to not have to worry about calling in sick. If your employer be mad at you, then having your own business is definitely for you so let me know you guys if you have any questions. I do hope this helped and I will see you guys in the next one.