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By Pete Volk, founder of Dental Strategy Institute, with clinical review by Susan Volk, RDH.
There's a particular frustration in learning that your career ceiling was set by a state legislature you never voted for. A hygienist in Colorado can build something a hygienist in another state legally can...
Co-authored with Susan Volk, RDH
Every industry report this year has said some version of the same thing: recruiting hygienists has never been harder. Owners are describing it as "very" or "extremely" challenging at a rate north of 90%. Practices are raising wages, sweetening benefits, getting crea...
By Pete Volk, founder of Dental Strategy Institute, with clinical review by Susan Volk, RDH.
By year six, most hygienists have done a quiet kind of math. Not the paycheck math — the other kind. How many more years your neck and shoulders have in them. How many more identical Tuesdays sit between no...
The hygienist shortage is the most discussed operational problem in dentistry right now. But the conversation almost always focuses on hiring — finding hygienists, paying them more, offering better schedules.
What gets talked about less is the math of what unfilled hygiene capacity actually costs yo...
What the Hygienist’s Role Means for Your Practice's Bottom Line
One of the biggest drivers of practice revenue is hygienists -- they're responsible for roughly a third of it. But in most hygiene programs, they don't tell you what that means, or why it should matter to your paycheck, your career,...