There are many underserved segments of clients needing better dental care.
From veterans living on the streets to rural seniors with no way to drive all the way to the city, you can easily expand your offerings and build a business around providing specialized care.
Using my mobile dental practice coaching helps ensure you get both certification in geriatric oral care and the foundational insights needed to run a successful and flexible business model.
As a hygienist, you’ll be better prepared to serve your community within a framework that adapts to your needs, timeframes, and more – all without the massive overhead of a brick-and-mortar office.
For over 30 years, I’ve provided educational resources to peers and students. My goal is to help you transition from feeling stuck and uncertain about your future as a dental hygienist to a confident, fully booked, and thriving business.
Here is a quick breakdown of how my model works to transform and fast-track your career.
Key Takeaways
- Combining certification and coaching helps launch a mobile practice much faster than traditional models.
- Structuring your mobile dental or hygiene career through a mobile lens opens up new growth opportunities.
- Using both the CE program and coaching grants you access to working with older adults in need of compassionate care.
- Unlock a fast-growing niche that can be a massive revenue stream with minimal entry barriers.
What Is the Mobile Dental Practice Coaching Program?
I am Dr. Sonya Dunbar, and I offer personalized one-on-one coaching that helps students take the knowledge from dental courses online and turn it into a lucrative business. When you join my mobile dental practice coaching program, you’ll receive:
- Individual support from me, the Geriatric Toothfairy
- Practical systems based on my decades of mobile and LTC dental work
- Coaching directly aligned with your certification
- Personalized help picking out optimized equipment, billing models, marketing, and structures
- Guidance on how to cultivate leads at LTCs (long-term care), memory care units, and homebound patient segments.
Mobile dental practice coaching provides the framework for students to figure out where to start, how to find contracts, and even how to price services. It empowers you to learn how to better manage the business side of oral healthcare so you can grow your client base and secure more interest over the long term.
I love getting into the nitty-gritty details of your local community integrations. We will work together so you can thrive in a mission to improve the quality of life for seniors and other at-risk communities while also establishing your presence as a mobile dental provider.
Why Certification in Geriatric Oral Care Is the Cornerstone
I also offer Certification in Geriatric Oral Care, an 8-week program designed to help certified dental hygienists, office managers, and dental providers expand their business into new markets. When combined with mobile dental practice coaching, this certification provides a powerful foundation to launch or grow a successful mobile dental career.
During your certification process, you’ll learn at your own pace, engaging with mentors and my team to gain a deeper understanding of how transformative dental care can be for senior patients who haven’t seen a professional in months, years, or even decades.
We work through everything, from how to safely access LTC facilities to dementia-friendly care to collaborating with the complete care team of a patient, including staff, caregivers, and families.
By the end of certification, you’ll receive checklists and protocols for clinical setup, as well as what you’ll need to take the final exam and receive your credential.
My certification program is widely recognized in the dental industry, enhancing your professional standing and opening up new career opportunities, such as cultivating a dental mobile practice.
What sets my program apart from a traditional mobile dental practice certification is that it is highly specialized, focusing on patient-centered care for older adults.
How Coaching + Certification Fast-Tracks Your Career
When you combine both the certification and personalized coaching, you get a fire lit under your motivation.
Not only do you have advanced training that is extremely valuable in the dental industry, but you’ll gain the practical, real-world application of that knowledge designed to grow a lucrative career and business model.
The idea is to take you from clinical readiness to business launch. We’ll work together so you can:
- Clearly outline a launch plan tailored to the unique parameters of your mobile dental practice.
- Receive step-by-step support based on my real-world logistics and experience.
- Develop solid marketing strategies that actually convert target communities to new clients.
- Gain confidence from active mentorship that listens to your challenges to find applicable solutions.
I understand how tough developing a new business can be, especially in geriatric oral care.
Instead of having to forge your own pathway through the tall grass, I provide the much-needed guide so you can avoid any pitfalls or common mistakes.
If your goal is to create a new business that improves the community and positively impacts the quality of life of seniors while earning a decent income, then combining my certification course with a one-on-one coaching program makes sense.
Why This Market Matters: Older Adults Need You
Now for the big question. Why do I focus my certification program and coaching on senior patients? The reality is I focus on all at-risk communities, but starting with senior oral care offers the most growth at the moment.
About 1 in 6 people in the USA are aged 65 years or older. Only about a third of those seniors have dental insurance or regular dental care. When you look at LTCs, group homes, and other housing scenarios, those uninsured numbers skyrocket.
Most traditional dental offices are not equipped or do not have trained staff members to manage patients with memory care needs or those with mobility issues, which is why mobile dental practice coaching is essential to prepare providers for these specialized services.
Even if they do, the same patients may not have the financial, physical, or local resources to actually move from their beds to a new location.
When you use dental courses online and my mobile dental practice coaching program, you directly address these issues and develop new ways to serve older adults. Imagine what you could do with a scalable practice that reaches the locations where these patients live. Everything is housed in your van or towable equipment, ensuring you have drastically low overhead and startup costs so you can maximize potential revenue and improve countless lives.
Throw in the mix of teledentistry to expand your mobile dental practice, and you create even more revenue streams and service growth. With my training and mobile dental practice coaching, you become the very solution so many people need for better oral care.
What You’ll Learn in the Coaching Program
I’m not going to be humble about my mobile dentistry coaching program. When you sign up, you learn all the details needed to start, develop, and grow a solid business. I’m incredibly proud of this program because it is based on real-world scenarios, not some theoretical concept that someone without extensive experience tries to market.
I focus on the details like:
- How to name and register your business in the USA or Canada.
- What type of equipment you’ll need that can be stored safely and easily transported to different locations?
- The ins and outs of dental health billing and reimbursement, including cash pay strategies and teledentistry applied to insurance.
- Creating realistic patient schedules that work with your lifestyle and career goals.
- Tips and tricks to connect with facility directors and senior service providers.
- The types of documents you’ll need are aligned with regulatory standards, such as HIPAA compliance.
Most importantly, I want to build your confidence. Working with seniors is a unique challenge. You have to adjust in real-time to patients who may be managing dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurodegenerative conditions. One day, you could be using hand signals at a group home for a private facility, and the next, offer dental advice through teledentistry services that reach rural military veterans.
Being able to move through each of these segments and collaborate with specialty providers in senior care takes confidence. That is exactly what my mobile dental practice coaching will build you up to do helping you succeed in a niche that truly appreciates every effort you put into caring for others.
FAQs
How does this coaching program differ from other online dental courses?
First, you have me, Dr. Sonya Dunbar, and my wealth of industry experience. Beyond that, you’ll gain active insights and not just passive information through my mobile dental practice coaching, which includes accountability, workable templates, and the support you need to develop a thriving mobile dental business.
Do I need a mobile dental practice certificate to start a business?
Not necessarily. I’ve worked with office managers and assistants who have developed a mobile dental clinic in partnership. The difference is having your geriatric oral care certification gives you a professional advantage. Combine that with proper licensure, and you build more trust with the people you wish to serve and gain as clients.
How quickly can I launch after completing the course?
I’m just as eager to hear about your success as you are! I recommend reaching out to facilities within your first month of course completion. You can expect to start facility visits within 60 to 90 days.
Is this only for hygienists, or can dentists join too?
I work with dentists and hygienists. I advocate for combining the two when possible. Expanding dental care to seniors should include regular cleanings and preventive care from hygienists, as well as extractions and denture assistance from dentists.
What if I’m nervous about starting a business?
I would be amazed if you weren’t nervous in some way, but that’s why my coaching program focuses on building your confidence through practical, real-world advice rather than theory. I want you to feel the support, so when you use templates or run through a checklist, you know it will help.
What kind of facilities can I serve with a mobile dental hygiene business?
Senior care is a much broader niche than people might realize. We’ll cover various types of locations, including assisted living communities, nursing homes, adult day care centers, private residences, long-term care facilities (LTCs), veterans’ houses, and memory care units. Basically, anywhere that geriatric care is in high demand.
Do I need a supervising dentist to operate a mobile hygiene clinic?
This will depend on the state in which you set up your dental mobile practice. Some places allow a dental hygienist to act independently. Others may require more collaborative agreements. I’ll help guide you through these answers and work with your supervisor if needed. As I love teledentistry, you’ll want to negotiate a dental relationship anyway.
Fast-Track Your Career with the Right Support
It’s time to stop feeling stuck or burnt out in your career. Fast-paced clinics often make individual team members feel underappreciated or that they are not making a difference.
With my mobile dental practice coaching and certification programs, you’ll gain incredible clarity. Together, we’ll develop the business model you need to earn outstanding revenue as well as the skills required to serve a wonderful segment of the community. By the time we’re finished, you’ll have the confidence and clarity to move forward with your mobile dental practice!
Start today by signing up for my Geriatric Oral Care Certification or applying for my Mobile Dental Practice Coaching. I look forward to learning more about you, your goals, and how my team and I can help you achieve new levels of dental skills and business success. Let’s bring care to those who need it most, and sign up today!
