▶️ Full 5-part Hygiene Crisis series playlist: Hygiene Crisis Series: Build, Recruit, Compensate, and Retain a High-Performing Hygiene Team
📥 Free Resource: https://go.mydentalplaybook.com/resources/hygiene-compensation-guide
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Finding and keeping great hygienists is harder than ever, but paying a higher hourly rate isn't the answer. In this episode, Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird reveal the compensation system that helps hygienists earn up to $80–85/hour while improving retention, increasing collections, and supporting long-term practice growth. If you're tired of turnover, rising payroll costs, or struggling to build a productive hygiene department, this episode is for you.

🔍What you’ll learn in this episode:
📌Discover the performance-based compensation model that aligns incentives for patients, hygienists, and practice owners.
📌Learn the 3.0–3.3× productivity benchmark every hygienist should achieve to support healthy collections.
📌Build flexible schedules that improve hiring and retention.
📌Use bonuses, benefits, 401(k), and health insurance to reduce costly staff turnover.
📌Increase treatment acceptance by helping hygienists educate patients with microscopes, X-rays, and better communication.

This is Episode 4 of 5 in the Hygiene Crisis series. Watch the complete series in order here: Hygiene Crisis Series: Build, Recruit, Compensate, and Retain a High-Performing Hygiene Team
Episode order: The State of the Hygiene Market / Recruiting / Onboarding and KPIs / Pay and Compensation / PPO vs. Fee-for-Service

Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, sharing real strategies from real practices, backed by data from 1,195+ dental offices. Whether you're focused on dental marketing, practice growth, hiring, PPO profitability, fee-for-service dentistry, or building a scalable practice, these playbooks are built for today's practice owner.

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What We Discuss:
00:00 Introduction and the Hygiene Crisis
04:33 Compensation Structures for Hygienists
10:38 The Importance of Benefits and Retention
14:05 Bonuses and Performance Metrics
16:01 Enhancing Patient Care through Hygienist Engagement
20:53 Flexible Scheduling for Hygienists
25:15 Conclusion and Key Takeaways

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🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin: Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

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