Personal income histories - Dentist Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
When you look up average numbers of dental income, you'll see it ranges from 130 to 220 for a general dentist, and an additional 30 to 50 percent more for a specialist, depending on the specialty. That's generally lower as an associate, depending on where you go. As an associate, you are an employee. As a business owner or a partner, that goes up and it's more in the 200,000 range. And then when it comes down to it, your ability to work hard, willingness to see many patients with different insurances, and your willingness to work hard to keep your overhead low determines in a great extent your income. I've been grateful for Comfort Dental. It's been a good experience for me.
Video 2 Transcript
I started out my career after graduating from dental school in the army. I had a military scholarship and they paid for three years of dental school and then I owed them three years and that was a good start. Opportunity to get more experience and efficiency in performing dental service but it's certainly not a way to get wealthy. We moved to Boise and set up a private practice. When I started we didn't even buy a practice that's almost unheard of anymore but we started from scratch and within 10 years we had a very upper middle class income and has been adequate.
Video 3 Transcript
So as a dentist, uh, it really depends on how much work you do to how much you make. And there's a lot of other factors too, if you own your own practice versus you work for someone else. One thing I would recommend is sooner or later, you know, sooner than later, try to buy a practice or start a practice. And there'll definitely be some tough times as a business, owner, but at the same time, you can definitely do well. If you work hard study, how to, you know, become a more financially successful practice and, um, go for it, but it's always good to start off somewhere before you own your own practice, just because I feel like you need to learn from other dentists and grow, but yeah, also specializing does make more money, but it might not be your thing.
Video 4 Transcript
So there's a lot of variance in dentistry in terms of how much dentists are making. There's a few things that kind of factor into that. The first of which is are you a general dentist or are you a specialist? So are you an oral surgeon or an endodontist or orthodontist? On average, not necessarily all the time, but on average the specialists are going to make more than the general dentist. That is certainly not the case all the time. There are practice owners that are general dentists that can make as much as the specialist, but usually the specialists are going to make more. When you graduate dental school and you're getting a starter job as either an associate or you're going into some type of corporate office, you can usually expect to make at least $120,000 or $130,000, oftentimes more, but that there's difference, you know, depending on where you're at in the country and kind of what job you find.
