VA full time dentist salary

[iLuvDAT]

anyone knows how much they pay full time dentists? I know that VA GPR pay is actually higher than most civilian programs.

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[baddog]

Check VA.gov--usually around 150-180K I think. Specialists more. Good pay for workload and stress associated with the job.

 

[pietrodds]

The VA is poorly standardized. Some dentists make 120K some 180K. Depends on the area and how hard it is to get a dentist there. Plus, most need a GPR trained dentist so this shrinks the pool of applicants and increases the pay. It is good for someone who doesn't want to manage an office or people or for someone that just generally hates dentistry. The VA is difficult to do long term as the patients can wear you down mentally as many have mental disabilities. If you do the VA, know that doing dentistry will be come secondary to all the other bureaucratic BS that you have to contend with. I hear some at the VA say they're lucky they don't have to deal with paying patients but it's a trade off because even though you don't have finances to deal with, you have heavy amounts of paperwork and patients that are hard to work on and don't really appreciate much of what you do. It's just weird doing implants or a 6 unit bridge on someone that you know wouldn't pay 50 bucks for your work as they really don't appreciate it. How's this also, we have to do like 60 hours of training a year that have nothing to do with dentistry...ex/ 4 hour american history course followed by an in depth study of the constitution/bill of rights after which there's a test. Every physician has to take time out of their practice to do this. Seems like a waste of tax payer dollars to me! If you don't like dentistry though you'd probably like to do anything other than the dentistry. It's a great place to do a residency but it's tough to do as a career imo, ask me how I know??

 

[iLuvDAT]

i appreciate your feedbacks. i am really interested in doing my residency and working at VA hospital afterwards. How competitive is it to get a full time VA job after GPR?

 

[pietrodds]

why do you want to work at the VA? also, start dental school before you even think about what you're going to do afterwards.

 

[iLuvDAT]

why do you want to work at the VA? also, start dental school before you even think about what you're going to do afterwards.

I think experience and competitive salary are worth extra hassles to work for VA system. I'll start dental school this fall

 

[Dentalicous1234]

what's VA?

 

[J ROD]

what's VA?

Veteran's Affairs