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The dentists, who only want a stress free job and have the YOLO mentality, may consider this easy "dental hygiene" option. But most of the hard working dentists want to go for the next better thing in life......they want to move up the ladder.....they want to learn to do complex procedures to gain the experience so they can get better paid jobs (jobs that pay them % of the production) elsewhere. And when they open their own practice, they will be ready to take on difficult tasks. One will never learn anything if he/she avoids doing things that are difficult.Supply and demand. I have nothing against hygienists making more. They went to school for less time and debt than dentists. It’s a great career to be in now. I can see some pre-dents jumping over to the hygiene path.
Question is… will some new dentist grads do part time hygiene gigs over dentistry to make easy money on the side the first couple of years out of school? No malpractice insurance. No complex cases. More time to be on TikTok. lol
Dentists can open their own practice.....and the sky's the limit. The hygienist can't own a practice...even if they can open one (in certain states), no patients would go to see them because the limited scope of practice.
I haven't yet met a successful dentist who is lazy and only wants to do simple low stress cleaning procedures. There's no such thing as luck.
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