Professional Opportunity: General Dentist

Current Position Available
Experienced and enthusiastic dental team seeks a personable, energetic and motivated dentist with a heart of gold and love for the Blue Ridge Mountains to join us as the newest member of our exemplary team. The dentist will treat a combination of children and adults. Each doctor will mainly work with two assistants and will maintain regular patients in their schedule. We like to keep the patients with the provider to help with management and comfort for our patients and parents as much as possible. The procedures that our dentists complete can be found on the following link to our website: https://www.wilkespublicdentalclinic.com/procedures.html We have outside referral sources, but rarely have to use them except for Ortho and some oral surgery cases. We have a fairly low broken appointment rate and is usually around 10%. All practice functions such as scheduling, hiring, firing, management, bill paying, marketing, etc. are all done for you.

Location Information
We are located about an hour west of Winston Salem, an hour and a half northwest of Charlotte, and 45 minutes east of Boone in the beautiful foothills of North Carolina. We are, also, about an hour from the Virginia line. There are numerous outdoor activities in the area. These include skiing, hiking, mountain biking, boating, fishing, hunting, mountain climbing, horseback riding, camping, etc. Festivals, various markets, and special events are held throughout the year. It is a wonderful community for family with great schools including a community college and several close universities. Our county offers a safe, friendly environment with lots of local color, a rich history, breath-taking beauty and music aplenty! Please feel free to discover how we offer the best of small-town life!
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https://www.wilkeschamber.com/
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General Clinic Information
The Wilkes Public Health Dental Clinic is a non-profit public health dental practice that has been in business for 21 years. Our clinic continues to provide affordable, high quality, comprehensive dental services at our “fixed site” in North Wilkesboro with 13 operatories and at our Mobile Dental Clinic with 2 operatories. Both facilities are up to date. The Mobile Dental Clinic was purchased in 2014, and the “fixed site” was renovated that same year. Feel free to take a virtual tour on our website at www.wilkespublicdentalclinic.com. Our sliding fee scale program allows us to provide services to indigent patients for little or no cost, and our highly skilled and dedicated staff members and dentists have helped us become a regional provider of choice.

Schedule- Work schedules are 8:00 am to 5:00 pm four days per week. The clinic is open Monday through Friday. One team works Monday through Thursday and the other team works Tuesday through Friday. Our work environment offers professional autonomy, career growth and camaraderie.

Staff- 4 Dentists. The dentists have from 1 to 14 years of experience in dentistry.
• Each dentist has 2 Educated, Certified Dental Assistants, and most have 10+ years of experience.
• 3 Public Health Dental Hygienists and 1 full time dental hygienist
• Front Desk Manager, 3 Receptionists and 2 Interpreters
• Assistant Director, who manages the Mobile Clinic and is a Public Health Dental Hygienist
• Executive Director and Administrative Assistant

EMR and Services- We use Dentrix Enterprise software and electronic medical records. A wide variety of services are performed including restorations, root canals, basic and surgical extractions, crowns, partials, dentures, pulpotomies, stainless steel crowns, etc. Our service area is not limited but mostly includes the eight surrounding counties and Wilkes. Our patients primarily have Medicaid or Health Choice insurance. We also serve patients who have private insurance and who are self-paying.

Application Process
1. CV or Resume is submitted.
2. Preference is given to applicants who are licensed in North Carolina or who will be getting their license within the next 6 months. The selected candidate may start under a NC Intern Permit. However, you must have successfully completed a Regional Board.
3. Once a candidate is selected for the interview, references will be requested and contacted.
4. An interview will be scheduled and held. We usually do a tour at this time so you get a chance to see what the clinic looks like.

Salary and Benefits
 Base of $130,000 plus additional income based on 30% of production (average annual is $130,000 to $150,000)