Orthodontics

The only chair in dentistry where you see how the story ends

Ortho is not general practice with different instruments. It is a different rhythm, a different relationship with patients, and a set of hands most practices cannot train on a Tuesday. If it is what you do, say so and the right days will find you.

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Who we place in ortho

Orthodontic assistant
Treatment coordinator
Registered dental hygienist
Sterilization support

Orthodontists are placed through our permanent side rather than as temp cover.

A case, from the appointment where you meet them to the one where you let them go

Tap any point on the arc.

Day one

Records

Photos, scans, ceph and pano. The appointment where you meet them, and the one everything afterwards gets measured against.

Aligner practices run a different arc with the same shape. The appointments change, the length of the relationship does not.

Three things people notice in their first month

The appointments are short and there are a lot of them

A general practice day is a handful of long appointments. An ortho day is a stream of brief ones, and the skill is in never letting the column slip while still being present for each person in the chair.

You see the same people for years

You watch teenagers grow up. You know which parent asks about the finish date and which one asks about the elastics. Nowhere else in dentistry builds that kind of familiarity.

Almost nobody is in pain

Ortho is largely elective, largely planned, and largely comfortable. If the emergency side of general practice wears you down, this is the obvious place to look.

What ortho practices are short of

Orthodontic assistant: The core of the practice. Bonding, archwire changes, and a schedule that moves faster than anywhere else in dentistry.
Treatment coordinator: Consults, plans, financials, and the person a family actually talks to. Half clinical, half front office, and rarely advertised well.
Registered dental hygienist: Hygiene in an ortho practice, often around fixed appliances, which is its own skill and not one every hygienist has practised.
Sterilization support: High instrument turnover across a lot of short appointments. Bigger practices staff the room on its own.

Experience an ortho request can ask for

Bracket placement and bonding
Archwire changes and ligation
Ceph and pano imaging
Aligner scanning and tracking
Elastics and appliance instruction
Ortho charting and progress records

You list what you have actually done, and requests reach the people who have listed it. We verify licensing and insurance on temp placements. Nobody grades your hands, and no office sees a score.

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What you are actually agreeing to

Nothing on this page is worth much if the arrangement behind it is vague, so here it is in four lines.

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The rate is set before you claim: Rates are set by category and city and shown up front. You are not negotiating with an office at seven in the morning.
On a temp shift we are your employer: Payroll, source deductions and insurance sit with us, not with the practice you are covering that day.
Your registration is verified once, then kept current: We verify licensing and insurance for temp placements so an office does not ask you to prove it at the door.
You claim the days you want: No minimum, no obligation to take anything, and you can keep a permanent job while you do it if that is what suits.

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It takes a few minutes, and it is the difference between hearing about general practice days and hearing about the ones you actually want.

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