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Walking into the dental office can be one of the most stressful times for a hygienist. There are many questions of what to expect, how to operate efficiently in the office, working with the team, and staying true to your knowledge and ethics. 

We will help to provide a jumpstart for you on how to walk in and win the day. Get the answers to your questions so you can be confident from day 1 and keep your focus on providing excellent patient care.

Banish the Burnout 

The average career of a clinical dental hygienist is 7 years before opting to do something different. We enter the field with fresh optimism, and a love for the hard work we have put towards our goal to succeed as dental hygienists. As burnout is incredibly common, it's important to take a look at ways to prevent it from occurring in the first place. 

We will help to navigate ways to stay engaged in your career as a clinical dental hygienist and prevent burnout. Just like most things, prevention is key!

What I Didn't Learn in Hygiene School: Real-Life Scenarios to Navigate in the Dental Office 

School is fundamental in getting us to the point of performing our duties and skills competently. However, school and the real world are two completely different settings. It can be nerve-wracking to think of what might need to be changed from how it was done in school in order to fit a private practice model.

Also, what are the concepts that are ok to let go from school, and what are absolutes that must continue to be performed?

We will take a deep dive into the major differences and where compromise is acceptable or an absolute no. 

Show Me the Money: How to Track Production and Have a Financially Lucrative Career 

While we are healthcare providers, dental offices are small businesses that thrive when employees can be equally money conscious. When businesses thrive, it helps to ensure that better equipment can be purchased, training on new technologies can occur, employee benefits and compensation improve, and everyone wins! 

Having the money conversation in the dental office can be challenging and uncomfortable, so understanding how to prepare and navigate it are important to feeling confident and being a well-rounded team member. 

We will share how to track your production, what these numbers mean, and take a deep dive into hygiene as a financially lucrative career. 

Crack the Code: Navigate How to Use Treatment Codes for Patient Scheduling and Efficiency 

One of the biggest stressors from new graduate hygienists that is continually echoed is "How do I use treatment codes in the schedule?". 

Coding is a completely different language and is one that is often not addressed through formal dental hygiene education.

Learning to code is an important skill that helps you maintain your efficiency in the office (helping to schedule your patients), maintain your ethics by ensuring correct coding, and provides a level of knowledge necessary to have conversations with your patients on their current oral health needs and conditions. 

In this course, we will review commonly used treatment codes, what they are used for and why. 

Share Your Message, Stay Engaged: Career Advancement Opportunities 

One of the best ways to keep your love for your career alive is to stay engaged in various ways. Clinical dental hygiene can sometimes leave you feeling isolated within your own office bubble. There is a whole world of dental hygiene out there to enjoy!

We will help you discover various ways to share your message and/or advance into alternative career opportunities.

This will help to keep you in touch with the entirety of the dental hygiene community and provide an outlet to maintain your love for your career. 

Yikes! Navigating the Horror Stories of Hygiene Practice so that YOU Don't Have To - Panel Discussion

Oh, the horror! It's likely you've heard a horror story or two from your dental hygiene instructors.

Then, when you begin to dig deeper, it's easy to find and begin to hear many more. They are most certainly unsettling and might leave you nervous or unsure if these things truly happen in clinical practice. 

Will you experience them? 

What are some totally crazy situations that dental hygienists have experienced and navigated in their careers so far? 

Our expert panel is here to be totally real with you. While many try to shield these stories from our newest generation of dental hygienists, we believe it's great to share these experiences and talk through them so that together, we can all feel supported in navigating these situations and even find some humor in them with time.