u/ActualGuarantee1453

Hello everyone I am a new grad dental hygienist. I graduated In May. I temped for a week at different offices but realized temping is NOT for me starting out. I feel like as a new grad you need a baseline of how things are in the real world outside of school and to not just be thrown somewhere even though you did it to yourself 🙄 . But that’s beside the point, so I found a permanent job but I feel like I’m soooo slow with my time management from going from 3-4 hours to 1 hour appointments. How long did it take you to get faster. Or do you have any tips for time management pleasseeee. Also, treatment planning 🫠…….. is not what I thought it would be in the real world. In school I feel like in clinic rotations the main focus was on the actual cleaning and yea we diagnosed if you had perio or were healthy. But in the field it’s not just a straight line and I’m just struggling if a patient should be a gingival therapy or SRP, or prophy. Idk I wish treatment planning was taken more seriously all they mostly cared about is if you removed the calculus or not that’s where most points were deducted at 🙄. Honestly at other offices I temped at I felt a patient should be more than a prophy but idk what to do. Like I’m so confuseddddd. Like every office is literally different with treatment it shocks me. Anyway I was embarrassed to suck so bad and talk about this with anyone so I came here 🙃 feel free to lmk anything please.

So I have an interview coming up at one dental office. But, 10 days later I have a working interview with another office. If the first office offers me a job before the second office since the interviews are so spaced apart what do I tell the first office? Should I be honest with the first office and tell them I’m still interviewing and my answer may take longer?

So, I am a new grad dental hygienist that graduated a couple months ago and took all my state and boards exams during school and passed on the first try. I decided to take around a little over a month off from finding a job due to school being stressful and physically and emotionally exhausted. I graduated not feeling confident at allll, not due to my knowledge but from the physical clinical aspect. I feel like I was doing good in the beginning of school with scaling then as we moved forward I felt like I was not keeping up with my classmates or progressing at the rate I was supposed to but still passed. With my patients I started to get mixed reviews. In the beginning none of my patients complained about ANYTHING. As I moved forward to harder patients it got to the point where some said I was gentle and some would say I was hurting them. Most of the time my teachers would blame it on me even though in the patients chart former students would use topical or local anesthetic. So I left school just feeling like I sucked and I feel like I chose the wrong profession and I don’t really know what to do now. What helped you guys out or have any of you had a similar story?