how much do dental hygienist make and what do you guys think of this profession?
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The median expected salary for a typical Dental Hygienist in the United States is $54,000.  The pay rate seems to be the highest on the west coast.  In the profession you will clean teeth and examine oral areas, head, and neck for signs of oral disease. May educate patients on oral hygiene, take and develop X-rays, or apply fluoride or sealants.  If your primary concern is to help your clients, you should do great.  Love what you do no matter what.
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I hear it only works for people who need relatively minor changes in their mouth and here it can run anywhere from $3000-$8000, depending on the severity of the case.
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I say I hear your pain!!!\nI have worked in the dental field first as a dental assistant for many years then as a Hygienist. I have only worked in a few offices. The office I work now, the dentist comes in late, has the front desk many times move patients up then runs behind all day. Drives us NUTS. She want to get out early. I only work with her one day a week. Usually no lunch and makes her Hygiene patients wait many times for 30mins or more.\nLast man I worked for ran on time, rarely did we miss lunch-rarely-there is NO excuse for this happening over and over. Sometimes yes, all the time NO! Selfish.\nI don't have a cleaning lady, or someone to do my wash. Homework every night....I hear ya sister. BUT there are Dentists out there that don't do this...Where are you?? lol
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Median hourly earnings of dental assistants were $13.62 in May 2004. The middle 50 percent earned between $11.06 and $16.65 an hour. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $9.11, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $19.97 an hour.\n\nBenefits vary substantially by practice setting and may be contingent upon full-time employment. According to the American Dental Association (ADA), almost all full-time dental assistants employed by private practitioners received paid vacation time. The ADA also found that 9 out of 10 full-time and part-time dental assistants received dental coverage.
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Yes I was a medical receptioist before I went to college.  It paid almost $10 an hour and had excellent benefits (Sout Dakota)  I really enjoyed the office setting and I would do it again if I had the chance!!  You mostly answer phones and make appointments.  Dealing with the sick can be a little trying at times, especially when they want to hand you a poop sample, YUCK!!  That was the worst part.  I mean what do you say when someone hands you some s hit on a stick?  Thanks for the peice of s hit, and have a good day or what?  They should really have drop boxes for those things....EEEW!
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There are 2 types of degrees for a hygienist ...  you can get an associate's degree which generally takes about 2 years to obtain or you can get a bachelor's degree which generally takes about 4 years to obtain.  Either way, contact a college to find out about the course outline.
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It really depends on how long you have been in the career, and what background you have.\nThey can make from $12 on up to an average of $16.  Some of the long term employees make more than $25 - 30 an hour.
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$300. I am a volunteer Emergency medical Technician, and I help save lives, and the pay stinks! LOL! \nWhat do you do, to make so much?
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Hmmm. you are trying to IM in the personals, aren't you?\n\nI'm a manager in a travel agency. My career is steady with an annual salary of $200,000. My family life is happy as well, life has been rather fulfilling. Sigh...my friends are not here yet. These people! Still the same old bad habit, love to get all decked up, I guess I'll just keep waiting....
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I've never heard of such a career.  I do all my own vacuum sealing.  I suppose the only suggestion I have for you is to advertise your services in the neighborhood(s) you want to work in.  Offer low cost services that would be more economical than people buying their own machine (remember, they're pretty cheap these days).  Build up a client base and then keep working at it.\n\nI have to be honest though - I don't see much of a future or steady income in it.
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I give raises at least once a year, but I also give a bonus every month that we go over a certain goal.\n\nSOME dentists have a base salary and then never give a raise, but they pay a bonus that keeps going up and up to keep the assistant's pay at a reasonable level.\n\nSOME dentists are just a-holes who never give raises.  One guy I know said, "Raise?  She wants a raise?  Just go out front and grab the next unemployed girl who walks past the office and hire her for minumum wage."  Needless to say, he's always looking for new staff members.  Mine have been with me mlong enough that two have retired from the job!\n\nYeah, she could take the job and find out whether the dentist is stuck in the 60's and pays minimum and that's it or whether he has a good bonus system.  As you say, at least it's an income and she can move on to a better job.  You always have to state a reason for leaving one job for another and the chances are good that all the other dentists know this guy is not good to work for, so it won't look bad for your daughter.\n~
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Consider this. If you are good at being a custodian, why work for someone else. Start your own cleaning business. (Stay in school too!). I own my own cleaning service and work about 50 hours per month and make a full time income. I have a helper but who do you think is making more? I'm sure you are smart enough to figure that one out. \n\nSo maybe you own it to yourself to learn more. After all the big players in this industry started out as a one man show. Click now on my link below and you can decide for yourself.  It's a real business and the money is in the bank.
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I got an estimate from my oral surgeon.  This was for 28 implants in my mouth.  It was around $50,000 total for all work and any follow up visits.  A bit too much money for me to fork out right now.  Plus just remember, implants only last around 20 years if you maintain it well.  And they still will NOT be like your natural teeth.  That is what one of my friends who had it done said.  By the way he paid $60,000 for all of his.
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A lot of universities will do it for little to no money. They take in people so their students can learn, using real patients. Not to worry the students are in advanced standing and always supervised. They usually do excellent work because they are enthusiastic and working toward a degree. Call the closest dental college and ask.
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ONCE AGAIN, ANOTHER UNEDUCATED ANSWER FROM A DENTAL HYGIENIST.\n\nI am a dentist.\n\nPlease disregard the answer from the dental hygienist.  Hygienists, as you may know, go to school for two years.  They learn a smattering of anatomy, a dash of pharmacology, a splash of microbiology, and the tiniest hint about dental procedures.  Ultimately, their job is to clean teeth and gums.  Yet here we have a hygienist, who doesn't know squat about bone grafting, telling you that "freez-dried" bone is a suitable substitute for a hip graft.\n\nThe doctor who has diagnosed your problem and has decided on the hip graft is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon.  They attend four years of college, four years of dental school, and four to six years of surgery residency after dental school.  Hygienists may or may not even have bachelors degrees, and hygiene school is two measely years.  I think it's safe to say that the oral surgeon is a thousand times more educated than the hygienist, and for a hygienist to question the clinical judgment of an oral surgeon is like a toddler questioning the manner in which his parents do their taxes.  As a dentist, I'd think twice about questioning the clinical judgment of an oral surgeon.\n\nThere are a variety of bone grafting materials, and each has its purpose.  Generally, hip grafts are ASIC grafts: Anterior Superior Iliac Crest grafts.  Bone can be harvested elsewhere from the hip, however.  Often times, some of the hard cortical bone is harvested along with the softer cancellous bone beneath.  The benefits of using real bone, especially when there are hard cortical pieces, are very clear.  Obviously, the hygienist doesn't have a stinking clue what they are....as expected.\n\nOften times, when increased height of the jaw bone is desired, a hard piece of real bone grafted to the mandible is preferable as it is less likely to erode away resorb.  Furthermore, by using real bone, you are getting the benefit of all the existing cells found within bone (osteoblasts, osteoclasts, osteoprogenitor cells, platelets and its PDGF, etc.), and bone growth (i.e. success of the graft) is more predictable and pronounced.\n\nFreeze-dried bone works fine in many cases, but the problem with it is that it is very granular and can move easily.  If you're trying to add vertical height to the alveolar bone in your jaw, it's not a very good material.  Furthermore, freeze-dried bone serves as a framework upon which bone will grow, not as an actual bone replacement.  Your body must grow bone into it.  It's a very different process than using actual live bone.\n\nAs far as walking goes, yes, you should be able to walk.  In fact, they generally want you up and walking the following day after the surgery.  If you can't, they do what they can to make it so you can.\n\nOne of the risks of the graft (other than the standard risk of infection, hematoma, scarring, etc.) is damage to the lateral femoral nerve, which supplies sensation to the side of your thigh, resulting in anesthesia or paresthesia.\n\nGood luck.  I've taken part in this type of surgery before, and have managed the post-operative care for these patients.  They generally do quite well.
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Well they could always run a dental school or dental hygenist school.  Or be a dental consultant.  Possibly design new dental equipment or work for an insurance company overseeing dental stuff.  Or maybe just change practice from doing all dental stuff to only the more profitable - specialize.