 Hello everybody, my name is Andrea. I have been a dental professional for 17 years now. I started off as a dental receptionist, dental assistant, dental hygienist, then I became a restorative dental hygienist. And now I have my very own mobile dental hygiene practice where I do dental hygiene services. I offer teeth waning and I have somebody now working for me as well in my mobile dental hygiene practice, because I am so busy so this video is going to be about what if you're working in a dental office now as a dental hygienist and you are sick and tired of it you want to do your own thing. I'm just tired of dental office politics okay been there done that it could be you're just tired about dealing with staff that you don't really like dealing with dentists that you don't really like dealing with having to bill certain things that you don't agree with but that's what your boss is telling you having to take a million x-rays doing a lot of this a lot of that in less time. Maybe your office has to have started to shorten your appointment times due to coven. Maybe you have 45 minutes to take more x-rays, clean more teeth polish more teeth, whatever the case is you are just sick and tired, and you're looking into other avenues, or it could be something just as simple as you don't want to work for somebody anymore you don't want to have to work eight till eight every day and not get a lunch and having to feel bad calling in sick having to feel bad when you want to day off having to book six months in advance to take a vacation okay I could go on here. I worked in a dental office for many many years and these were my issues I didn't like all of those things I wanted to do my own thing. So I'm going to talk to you guys about different ways and different things that you could be doing okay there are different things. Now, I have been a dental hygiene and dental assisting tutor. So I have helped students pass the board exam, since I was 19, literally, when I became a dental assistant, I started helping dental assisting students pass the board exam. When I became a dental hygienist I started helping dental hygiene students so I have been a tutor, but teaching isn't for everybody so I'm not just just going to talk about teaching. I'm going to talk about how to start your own dental hygiene business if you're able to do that in your area, how to become a restorative dental hygienist so this sort of adds on to your skills. So I'm going to talk to you about the other things too, but to become a tutor what I first want to say is everybody wants to do it, but they don't realize how hard the work is you have to prep PowerPoints, you have to do lecture videos if it's online. It's actually a lot of work okay, but if that is something you are thinking about doing that would be something you could do on the site to get out of working in a dental office. Now what if you want to become and you've probably heard of this it depends on the area though not not everybody can work as a restorative dental hygienist. So this basically increases your skills allows you to do more when the tooth is prepped by the dentist. You can place a melgom fillings you can place composite fillings you can cement crowns bridges you can cement veneers you can do or though. There's many different things you can do as a restorative dental hygienist in some dental offices, they utilize us very, very well, where the dentist comes in, they give the needle prep the tooth and then the restorative dental hygienist comes in 20 minutes later and does the rest. They apply the filling polish the filling, check the bite, they cement the crown do all of that check the bite so they do that. The dentist and the restorative hygienist work very well together and typically again it depends on the the area as a restorative hygienist you'll probably be making at least $20 more per hour, if not more. Okay, it could be $20 more per hour, it could be $30 more or more, it really does depend. But that's quite a big jump, and that gets you away from having to do clinical hygiene so that is something that a lot of dental hygienists do decide to do. But to go to school, they usually don't have the program that often it could be once a year once every two years it's not offered everywhere. Toronto they have the program more often it's very expensive. I went to Algonquin College in Ottawa, it was about $11,000 at the time. I don't think they're offering that program anymore. Toronto I don't know specifics about that program but definitely have a look but that's an option. What I want to say about that is, if you don't know a dentist who wants to hire you as a restorative dental hygienist, it's very difficult to find a job as a restorative dental hygienist or the same thing happens. You get accepted to work somewhere, and they treat you like you're a factory worker, they want to pay you $10 more per hour that's it and you're doing all the work. If you're not making at least $20 more per hour, it's not worth it, you should be getting paid for what your skills now are, because if you're paying for school, it's very expensive but it's worth it, absolutely. So then what if you want to start your own business so I do actually offer different things to dental hygienists as well who want to dabble in to possibly having their own mobile dental hygiene business or having a business in their home like I have. So I actually, I rent out my equipment and supplies to dental hygienists who don't want to have the big expenses upfront but want to try mobile dental hygiene for them. So I do that about three times a week and on weekends depending if I need those supplies or not, I do not see patients every day, because I tutor I do a lot of other things. Plus, I don't want to work every day that's the amazing thing of it and that's what I'm trying to help all of you guys do have a much more balanced life, but I do I do offer mobile dental hygiene equipment and supplies rental per day so if that is something you were thinking about that is something you can dabble into. You do have to be an independent dental hygienist to have your own business so that's an additional course, or depending on the hours that you have as a dental hygienist please check with your local dental hygiene association to see what you need in order to have your own mobile dental hygiene business or if you if you want to see patients in your own home, like I have you can do that and just simply rent my supplies. When you have those patients booked, you don't have to store anything by your own. I deal with that for you it's fantastic. So I do that, plus I have somebody else working for me. So I am so busy. I've had my own mobile dental hygiene practice since 2018. I am so busy that I could literally work from nine till nine every day and be fully booked. No problem, but I don't want to do that I laugh and and tell some people. I'm kind of lazy, you guys, I'm okay to work 10 till two every day that's good enough for me, but I say I say every day but then I, I like to take a week off here and there because I have tutoring teaching or just simply taking time off. So I hired somebody else to fill in those days for me and she's fantastic. So now, she works on commission. She makes a certain amount. I make a certain amount we are both happy. She's happy because she doesn't have to find her own patients, I supply the patients for her. I book all appointments. I sent everything through to insurance, all of that so I'm basically her dental receptionist. I'm her dentist dental hygienist because I'm not a dentist but it's like she works in an office I do all of the back end stuff. And she does the work, the dental hygiene services. In this case she does have her own equipment, everything. So she handles that. So it's pretty awesome. But see how you can do many different things. Talking about something different. Let's say you want to get out of working in a dental office but you don't necessarily want to get into dental doing anything dental. Look into the types of businesses that are doing well. Start your own Etsy shop. People do that and people do very well. Start your own side hustle another way. You can absolutely do that. You can even join an MLM where you make a commission of things you sell. There's many different things you could do. Feel free to reach out to me you guys because this is my passion. I love helping dental professionals get out of work from working in a dental office. I want you guys to do something else, either staying within your own passion within dental or having your own side business. I want you guys to help. I also help people start their own teeth wining business where maybe you just want to do teeth wining, not necessarily dental but you like teeth, but not the whole scaling the extra expenses that come with that. I can help you guys with that too so check out my links down below and keep watching my videos I do upload every Mondays and Thursdays and sometimes Saturdays keep checking back. If you like this video click right below if I can help click like to this video and thank you guys so much for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the next one.