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I agree!!! Not sure how to get it started and I have too much to deal with at the moment but if you have the time I would maybe first speak with a lawyer about how to start a union. Even if it is not within their scope of practice maybe they would be able to point you in the right direction with regards of who to speak to.

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@Sana:
Maybe you should think of reporting the dentist to the RCDSO since he/she is incompetent in being a dentist. It is our duty to protect the public and if you have the x-rays to proved your findings, then the dentist can’t argue with you.

If one hygienist starts reporting dentists’ to their governing body, then more will follow and hopefully these hygiene-dentist relationship will change.

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Does anybody know how to form a “union”. These abuse from the dentist to hygienist needs to stop. WE NEED TO FORM A UNION!!!
Nurses are unionize and their profession are going forward, unlike ours which is going down the drain.

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I’m a dental hygienist only a year.I should say that I was lucky to start as a volunteer first and then have some temp work. Guys who wants to have this profession for future -forget it!!!. Program cost big money( over 30-35 thousands dollars and then no work on market. You need to pay your credits but like hygienist says, dentists will abuse each of you and will not pay all that you need to be paid. This job need a lot of knowledges , responsibility which depends on us, and when the salary is low you will think like me if it’s worth it!!!! How to pay off my bank loans!!!. Even you have some hours in clinic you will not have full time job for long time still. The market is over of dental hygienists.
There is a lot of dentist who really , like Sana said, not fair to client. Each time we have to make a deal with that. I had a few time conflicts with my dentist where I work for 7 month and was fired because I was doing my job followed by regulations of my profession.My morality couldn’t except the way of work she wanted to have- over-billing,polishing for each client, bring them more often then they need ,etc.BY law she couldn’t fire me for this,so she made me serve her best friend, and after all I had a “complain” for bad service )).There was no harm for the client at all, I have got what happened only when received a letter. But well what can you do with this?????They are owners, they do what they want ( And as somebody wrote before, they will not pay you at all even it is not your fault that client didn’t show up for appointment. Their business is very competitive now, so obviously it become to us too because we are making a lot of money for them. I agree we have to cooperate all hygienist together and keep our rights.

I still try to believe there are somewhere good and fair dentist.
ANd I love this job with all my mind, but it is hard to deal with this system now.

Good luck for all of you:)))

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I recently went into an office to do two consecutive days. I was being paid $40/hr. I can read xrays and I am efficient. When it came time for the last patient (who had not had a cleaning in 10 years) the dentist came to me and told me that she DOES NOT HAVE ANY SUBGINGIVAL CALCULUS as we both stood in front of her xrays which were blown up on the computer screen. I pointed to one aspect of the tooth where you could see subgingival calculus on the xray. He told me to not use the cavitron or remove any of it! To simply, go easy – or do not do too much! I did an exploration and found tons of subgingival. He had done a periodontal charting and his measurements were inaccurate due to the presence of calculus. He did not care! He expected me to sit there with her in the chair and bill the insurance company for 45+ minutes of scaling when I was not doing any of it! That is $156 + dollars for nothing.
It made me so sick, so I decided to do my job, I picked up the cavitron and started removing the calculus. Then I went to the front to get something and I was informed that I would not be coming back the second day as their regular girl was available.
At the end I asked (the new graduate hygienist- what a surprise!) in the other room how much she was being paid and she told me $28/hour.
So, patients are not getting quality care but the dentist is saving money at the expense of patients health and then will probably want that patient to come back in every 3-4 months for more pretend cleanings. What a wonderful profession this has become, there are NO safe guards for the patients anymore. We have lost our ability to defend and protect the public from dentists such as these. And there are many of them out there!

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DEMAND IS VERY LOW FOR DENTAL HYGIENISTS IN ONTARIO AND WAGES ARE DROPPING. DO NOT CHOOSE THIS AS A CAREER.

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