We’re a Colorado Springs dental hygiene-only practice, and we’re hiring one full-time RDH right now.

Olivia (a working hygienist) owns and runs the clinical side. Chris runs the business side. We built this practice for hygienists, by a hygienist, and we’re growing the team.

If you’ve worked at general dental offices and felt squeezed between a dentist’s column and an assistant who’s running late, this is built differently. Olivia wrote the long version of why; the short version is below.

Open Position: Full-Time Dental Hygienist

One role. Working interview. Real patients. Yes/no within a week.

What you’ll actually earn

Each month, your paycheck is the higher of two numbers:

$53 per hour times your hours, OR
30 percent of your monthly production

$53 per hour is your guaranteed floor. Every hygienist on our team has always landed above the floor. The only month anyone sat at the floor was someone’s first month while they were ramping up. After that, production has carried every hygienist higher every single month, every hygienist, no exceptions.

It’s a floor with real upside, not a base-or-production gamble. We’ll show you a current hygienist’s actual pay history (anonymized, with their permission) on your working interview.

Schedule

Full-time, 4 days per week.
No nights. No weekends.
Posted in advance. You’ll always know what next week looks like.

Benefits

Paid time off.
Continuing education support.
Health insurance options.
Holiday pay.

What we need from you

Active Colorado RDH license.
Laser certification (required, hygiene-only means we own the whole workup).
Local anesthesia certification (same reason).
1+ years of clinical experience preferred. New grads with the above certs, apply anyway.
Comfortable in a single-column, hygiene-only setup, or curious enough to try.
Communicates well with patients and works in a clinician-led practice.

What you won’t deal with here

We’re going to be specific because every careers page says the same things:

No column-switching. You have your own column. You’re not waiting on a doctor’s exams. You’re not absorbing assistant handoffs that ran long.
No restorative chaos. This is hygiene-only. We don’t do fillings, crowns, or extractions. The schedule is built around hygiene appointments.
No production quotas dressed up as “practice growth.” Production-based comp gives you upside, not pressure. Slow month, you make the floor. No draw, no clawback, no penalty.
No upselling whitening or memberships. If a patient needs something, we tell them. If they don’t, we don’t.
No ghosting in the hiring process. Phone screen, working interview, decision within a week.
No “you’re part of the family” pretense. You’re a clinician. We respect you as one.

What a Tuesday looks like

You arrive. There’s coffee. The schedule was posted last week, no surprises. Your first patient is someone you’ve seen three times before. You know their kids’ names.

You see patients on time, take the time you need, go to lunch with the team, somebody makes a joke. You finish your day, break down the room, and leave when the work is done. Not “off late.” Just done.

You drive home. Tired in the good way. Not dreading tomorrow.

How we hire

Phone screen with Olivia (the owner and a working hygienist). 20 to 30 minutes. You’re talking to a peer who built this practice.
Working interview. Real patients. Real schedule. Real team. We pay you for your time.
Yes/no within a week. No ghosting. If it’s not a fit, you’ll hear it directly with a reason.

Start date

Roughly 4 weeks from when you accept. We use that time to credential you, get you on payroll, and walk you through our systems before your first patient.

Apply

Two ways:

Through Indeed with your resume.
Direct to Olivia via Facebook DM or our contact page.

If now isn’t quite the right time but you want to stay in our orbit, the Practice 32 Dental Hygiene Collective is our community space for hygienists who want training, networking, and a better hygiene experience.

Questions we get

Do you offer a sign-on bonus?
No. Some practices in town do. We chose to put that money into the floor and the schedule instead. If you’d rather have $5,000 up front and a $50 per hour floor elsewhere, those offers exist and we don’t blame you. We’re not competing on cash up-front; we’re competing on what your day-to-day actually feels like and what you take home over a year.

What if I’ve never worked in a single-column setup?
Most hygienists who try it like it. We’ll walk you through how it works on your working interview. The transition usually takes a few weeks.

What’s the ramp-up like?
Your first month is for learning our systems and our patients. Production may not hit the threshold to exceed the floor in month one. After that, it has every time, for every hygienist, since we opened.

Can I ask current hygienists about working here?
Yes. We’ll connect you on the working interview if you want.

What if a patient needs restorative work?
You’ll have a list of dentists we trust and refer to. Most patients understand the model and don’t mind the referral; many prefer it.

Are you Pikes Peak State College alumni-friendly?
Very. We’re happy to talk to recent grads.

What if I’m a new grad with the certs but no clinical experience?
Apply. Tell us about externships, preceptorships, anything where you’ve worked on real patients. We’ll evaluate from there.

– Olivia and Chris, Practice 32