Dental hygienist a good job?

Question

is dental hygienist a good job? how much money make an hour?

and how many years of college bcuz i heard its $80 an hr.

and only 4 years of college

Answer 1

Remuneration varies with location, time and other factors.  If you feel driven to root-around nin other people's mouths - go for it.

Answer 2

Not quite $80 an hour and not 4 years of college. Check out the US Cenus/Statistics.

Answer 3

Hey! I'm going into dental hygiene!

It's not quite an $80 an hour job. More like $30-40 an hour starting out. But it's only gonna take me about 3 years to get my degree, and I will be making about 50k starting out... about as much as a nurse, and I won't have people dying on me or bleeding and throwing up all over me. That's why I decided not into Nursing! Dental hygienists are well paid, and contrary to what one person said on here, you actually can advance to other careers if you want to get your bachelors. I'm going into a program to get my associates so I can work while getting my bachelor's online. Eventually, I want to become a professor of dental hygiene or biology, maybe even be a researcher for crest like my friend is, or even work for the government to be a public health official. It's so exciting that that I can actually go into a lot of different careers after getting some experience in dental hygiene. And if I do love my career as a dental hygienist, I want to move into pediatrics! So much fun! And I don't think it is a "hard" career. Sure you have a lot of prerequisite biology and sciences to take, but once you actually get into the program, you are learning things to actually do your skill. And it shouldn't be any harder than those classes because re reqs are to weed out the people who wouldn't be able to handle hygiene school... so if you get into a hygiene school, you definitely will be able to handle the work they give ya!

Oh, and it is actually up to your boss whether or not you get health insurance. A lot of hygienists only work part time, but some who work for bigger dental companies such as monarch dental (you know, the big companies), can actually work full time with benefits! It all just depends on where you live. But anyway, I think it's a great career with a lot of potential, good hours and a less stressful work place than other health careers.

:] good luck! I say go for it!

Answer 4

The figures you have may be correct.

Keep in mind that many DH's are independent contractors and don't get paid for time between jobs or when they don't have enough work to fill their time.

There is no advancement.  You can't work your way to being a dentist :-)

As an independent contractor you would not have benefits like paid vacation and health insurance.

All that said I think it is a good field to go into as long as you are aware of the limitations.