 Hello everybody Andrea here with dental l i'm going to talk to you guys about dental hygienists and how you can start your own practice here in Ontario i'm going to talk specifically if you want to start your own practice in your own home. Simple easier you don't have to worry about paying extra rent for an office space having to deal with plumbing all of that you can have your own practice in your own. home you just simply purchase a compressor unit with an air water suction a chair. And of course, some other things that I will talk to you guys about, but it is a lot easier. And i'm also going to talk to you about how to start your own mobile dental hygiene practice, where you go into patients homes. Using that same compressor that you would purchase for your own home with the air the water the suction the ultrasonic piezo you can bring that. To your patients homes as well, you would purchase a different chair, but I go through all of that and that's what I do so I see patients in my own home and I also see patients in their own home i'm going to go step by step. On how I did that, I do have a full course mobile mobile rdh academy where i'm going to leave the link for you guys at the bottom there. Which goes through everything, because I can talk about this for hours and hours and hours. Before the purpose of this video i'm going to give you guys the basics so in Ontario, you do need to be a self initiated dental hygienist. Look that up if you're not sure what that is in order to be self initiated you do need to be practicing as a dental hygienist. For a certain number of years or a certain number of hours, so if you haven't graduated yet, you cannot just jump in to have your own practice. But you can speed line the process by getting a mentor with the CDHO where somebody would mentor you to become self initiated quicker. What I did was I did have enough hours, but I think I was maybe shy I don't know a certain amount I can't remember exactly the specifics, but when I became a self and a self initiated dental hygienist. I want to say in 2016, but I could be wrong things were different, you did have to take a course, so I took a course through the CDHA. Which was a very easy course, but it does take time, though you can't just take the course overnight it took me about a month. I studied after work I took the test, but once you pass that exam through that course, you are now a self initiated dental hygienist, they will send in your self initiated certificate through the mail. You can start your own business that's what you need in Ontario, so I can leave the link for you guys down below. That's what you have to do first is look into being self initiated. The only other thing is some people think about do I want to be a sole proprietor do I want to be incorporated. Don't worry about that yet be a sole proprietor it's easier it's simple stick with that first. And you do need a master of business license very easy to fill out on Ontario.ca I believe there's a $60 fee and might have gone up now, since I did mine. But you need a master of business license you need that when you go to the bank to take out a business loan if you need one I did for me to get my practice going I took out about. It was either $25,000 or $30,000 to get everything started, because I wanted to buy some major items, such as a sterilizer you can have your own sterilizer you can use one in a dental office, if you have the hook up. But I wanted my own, because I did plan to do this on my own full time, you can either work in a dental office part time and do your own thing part time, so then you might be able to use a sterilizer in a dental office sterilizers run at about $10,000 so that was the big chunk. Of my $30,000 loan that I did have to take out and then you need to look into purchasing a compressor, this is needed air water suction it comes all included it's the most amazing thing. Feel free to search my YouTube channel, I do have a full video as well on the compressor that I have it's the a skeptical compressor, I can leave a note. For that as well on the bottom for you, if you want some additional information on that, but that runs at about $8,000 so see how it can quickly add up. And then the other thing, such as your own patient chair if you're traveling to patients homes you don't want to bring that one. You want to bring a portable chair so you're going to need to purchase that you're going to need to purchase instruments. A cart for all of your stuff if you're traveling mobile I help you guys with all of that, if you need extra help the mobile rdh academy, I do have the link for you guys down below. I go through exactly what I have so if you're very overwhelmed because it isn't overwhelming process sorry guys my puppies are playing down there, if you can hear them. I go through literally everything I have feel free to copy me that is completely fine I go through every single thing. Step by step, even inside the course, I have at least five videos of literally when I first got started so after I had that appointment at the bank. I have a video where I had documented everything I remember I I had just watched the video the other day. And I said okay guys I just had an appointment with the bank, I am overwhelmed things are going to cost a lot more money, so I go through all of that so. it's kind of like we're going through it together, but you have full support, so those are just some of the basics to get started the cost. What you have to do as a dental hygienist, you need to be self initiated to have your own business. You need to have a master business license and you do need to make the cgh oh where but not necessarily right away because they're going to know. or assume that's your goal when you sign up to be self initiated in your self assessment portion of the smile portal. That is when we update the practice that we are working in you're going to mention you are self initiated you're going to mention you have your own business, but I can help you guys with that later. The first step is to be self initiated if you already are the second step is to have a master business license and then guess what you can start your own practice, I can help you with that. I go through the littler things inside the course to as making your own website you don't have to pay $8,000 to have your own website. I teach you guys how to make your own the very basics, the very, very basic, so you don't have to spend a million dollars. I teach you guys about making a Facebook group or or a Facebook page, whatever you prefer for your business that's how I get all my clients. My Facebook business page easy it's free I teach you guys that I teach you guys marketing advertising how to get clients how much do I charge. How much you know how do I get clients, how do I talk to them, how do we fill out the medical histories. So I go through all of that inside the course if you guys need additional help okay so thank you guys let me know if any questions and i'll talk to you guys in the next one.