Mobile dental clinic

[urooj80]

Hello,
Just wondering has anyone ever worked for a mobile dental clinic? Are the dentists compensated higher than those working in an office? What kind of procedures are mostly done and what's the age of patients most frequently seen?
Does that work experience count on the resume and will it help a dentist get a job in a private practice later on?
Thanks.

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[urooj80]

Will it count, if you work for a mobile van treating kids at school? Suppose you were to work there as a general dentist for 6 months treating only children and teenagers and then u decide to move to a private practice to treat adults after 6 months, do u think your work experience with kids will hold any importance on your résumé. Will the hiring dentist discount your experience since you were not treating adults and hence not doing any crowns and dentures.

 

[Zagaza]

Most work done on/in mobile units are pretty bread and butter dentistry like restorations, extractions and placing sealants.Dont expect to be placing implants, crowns or dentures.Reason is because of how extensive these procedures are and how they are best done in a standing building or atleast a mobile unit that can accomodate with a pano and other things used for these procedures.So to answer both questions can it hold improtance on your resume? Yes, if you are entering a practice that does the same things you did on the mobile unit.Now 6 months is questionable on different levels if you were competent or not.Also are dentist paid higher? this is relative to volume of patients and exactly what you are doing for them.Bigger procedures equals bigger pay.

 

[Kidzteeth]

I had a horrible experience with a mobile unit treating kids in Arizona. Overworked and super super underpaid for the amount of procedures completed in the work day

They had subpar sanitation protocols and were endangering the patients

Lots of push to oversell treatment and to complete ALL treatment same day even if numbing 4 quads on a small child

I think you need to be careful about mobile unit because many of them have a bad reputation

 

[drdicty]

I had a horrible experience with a mobile unit treating kids in Arizona. Overworked and super super underpaid for the amount of procedures completed in the work day

They had subpar sanitation protocols and were endangering the patients

Lots of push to oversell treatment and to complete ALL treatment same day even if numbing 4 quads on a small child

I think you need to be careful about mobile unit because many of them have a bad reputation

Kidzteeth I think I sent you a PM (not sure if I did it right)... just wondering if you got it?