re: Is it legal for dental hygienists to open a teeth cleaning practice?

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ruzil

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What do you call the glasses the hygenist wear with the magnifiers built onto them?

Yes

Loupes and LED headlamp has made the last 10 years or so much more tolerable than the first few years were without them. My hygenists are wearing them now as well. The magnification is nice, but the beam focused light is a game changer. Its a no brainer.

My hygienist pumped about $80K ((that's a conservative number) of pure profit into the practice (in a 2-dentist practice). That's after her salary and overhead, and not counting her pano x-rays, and seeing around 8-10 patients a day. In the earlier years of the practice, when we first took over from the previous dentist, the hygienist was seing a patient every 30 minutes - up to 16/day. After we took over we scaled back the schedule for quality control. Obviously if someone hasn't had their teeth cleaned in a few years, they are getting a gross scale the first visit, then a fine sclae/polish the next visit. - and multiple hour long visits for root planing if they are a perio case. I've never understood how people lose money on hygiene in a practice.

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here was a hygienist that I met about 10-15 years ago who was taking home about $150K/year. She ran two chairs and had her own assistant, working in a large office with multiple associates. That's better than a lot of dentists I know.

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I know that girl initials DC. If this is the same gal, she had a scheduler and hyg assistant and made bank for a hygienist. But, she had 4-5 dentists feeding her patients.

Do you think she paid any overhead?

Let's she her do this, on her own paying for her own facility, advertising, staff, personal and property taxes, etc. etc. etc.

If a dental practice can run at around 60% overhead, a hygiene practice could run well below that. And a hygienist can easily net $1,500 $2,000 per day. I don't see the problem here. A stand-alone hygiene practice could rake in a LOT of money - easily more than a lot of dentists make.

Popkern.
A bullshitting blowhard dentist (911)

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A real ot baller dentist(ruzil)

I got $ on the latter. His numbers seem more realistic.

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I'm guessing the latter has performed 4341 with pockets less than 4mm and with no indication of a loss of attachment. The former, has not.

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You would have guessed wrong you stupid goat fricker. If you brushed your teeth more than once a week and flossed occasionally you might not have periodontal disease and a friend or two that would dare to ride in an elevator with you.

I'm truly sorry you didn't get accepted into dental school. There is always university of the Punjab.

A little light but necessary reading for you:

Former-Latter
Have you ever got­ten con­fused over the dif­fer­ences between “lat­ter” and “former”?
Here’s an exam­ple of how peo­ple use the two words: “I enjoy read­ing Entrepreneur and Inc, but pre­fer the lat­ter over the former.”
“Former” refers to the first of TWO per­sons or things.
Example: “This item is avail­able in wood and in metal, but I pre­fer the former.”(Wood: the first of two things)
“Latter” refers to the sec­ond of TWO per­sons or things.
Example: “Red and blue are pop­u­lar col­ors, but the lat­ter is more pop­u­lar.” (Blue: the sec­ond of two persons)
Here’s a trick to remem­ber the dif­fer­ences: the word “for­mer” means “first” and both begin with the let­ter “f.” Once you know that for­mer is first, the lat­ter part is easy.
“Latter” and “last” both begin with an “l.”
Former: first
Latter: last

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Popkern.
A bullshiteting blowhard dentist (911)

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A real ot baller dentist(ruzil)

I got $ on the latter. His numbers seem more realistic

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You were the "latter". Damn, just damn.