You'll run the visit here, not wait on it.
At most offices a hygienist is booked into a production column and measured by how many mouths move through it. At Restoro the hygienist runs the visit. The whole studio rests on one idea — the dentist is the single scarce resource — which means everything a dentist doesn't strictly have to do happens with you, before she's needed. You're not support staff waiting on the doctor. You're the reason a routine visit takes 31 minutes instead of half a morning.
We're hiring the founding clinical team for a studio opening September 2026 in the Ponte Vedra–Nocatee corridor: 7am to 7pm, seven days a week, walk-ins as the default. That schedule means real shifts and a real team around you, never a solo chair you can't step away from. It also means your day is built around the recall rhythm we're designed for — patients who come every ~90 days because we made it easy — and you own most of what happens in that room.
What it's like
Top of your license, on purpose
Florida lets a hygienist do a great deal under general supervision, and we build the day around that instead of fighting it. You run the recall visits, chart the perio, make the call on what's due — and the dentist joins for the exam and the dentistry only she can do. Nobody hovers. The trust is the job.
The 31-minute choreography is mostly yours
A walk-in checks in at the kiosk, the system routes them to your open room, and you start within minutes — oral-health update, cleaning and polish, scans, X-rays if they're due. When the supporting work is done you flag the room dentist-ready, and she gets a flexible 10–30 minute window instead of a random interruption. You set the tempo of the whole visit.
Modern tools, not hand-me-downs
Digital from day one: DEXIS sensors and intraoral cameras, an iPad wall-flow that tells you what each patient is due for, Open Dental for charting, ultrasonics and the rest of a chairside kit chosen to be fast and gentle. This is a studio being built new in 2026 — you help spec the operatory you'll work in, you don't inherit someone's 2009 setup.
A team, and a stake in it
Russian-speaking colleagues front and center, shift-based coverage so 7-days-a-week doesn't fall on one person, above-market pay, and a cash profit-share in the studio's success — so the person who greets a patient in year one still knows their name in year five. This is a founding seat: clinics two and three follow, and you were here first.
A day in the life
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A patient walks in for their ~90-day oral-health visit. No appointment — the kiosk already knows who they are, when they were last in, and what they're due for, and routes them straight to your open room. No waiting-room fish tank.
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You start immediately: quick oral-health update, cleaning and polish, perio charting where it's needed, fluoride for the kids. If X-rays are due you expose them on the DEXIS sensors and they're on screen before you've set the mirror down.
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If they're a member, a whitening touch-up is part of the visit — every member visit includes one, so you're keeping shades parked, not selling a package.
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When the room is ready you flag it dentist-ready. The dentist gets a window — "Room 3, exam in the next 10–30 minutes" — and arrives at a natural pause. You've already teed up findings in plain language for her to confirm.
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Off-peak, the pace opens up: longer whitening sessions, aligner scans, real hygiene coaching, unhurried answers — in English or Russian, whichever the patient thinks in. Peak hours flip to triage mode: keep the queue moving, honest wait estimates on the board, emergencies jump the line.
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Between patients you're restocking and staging, not charting overtime. Clock-out is a closeout checklist, not a scramble — the system queued tomorrow before you left.
Where it can go
Earn your local-anesthesia certificate — on us
Florida now lets hygienists administer local anesthesia under the dentist's direct supervision after a board-approved course (30 hours didactic, 30 clinical, plus BLS). We sponsor it. It widens what you can own in the chair and it's yours to keep for life.
Lead hygienist and clinical team lead
As we hire the second and third hygienist, the founding hire helps set the protocols, train the team, and own the hygiene side of the choreography. It's the natural first rung into clinical leadership.
Own the cosmetic and whitening program
Whitening touch-ups run through hygiene, and the studio leans on cosmetic add-ons. A hygienist who loves that side can own the whitening and shade-coaching program end to end.
Grow with the group
The plan is clinic one, then three, with the founder floating between them. Founding clinical staff are first in line to help open, staff, and set the standard for the next locations — with the pay and stake that come with building something.
We hire the right person, then invest in them.
A warm, curious hygienist who explains a perio chart in plain words and makes a nervous patient exhale beats a fast one who doesn't, every time. The license is the floor, not the finish line — if you're the right person with a gap in your training, we'd rather close it than pass on you. We put real money behind that: continuing education, license renewal, and certificates like local anesthesia are things we pay for, because a hygienist who keeps growing is exactly who we're building around.
What you'll need
- Active Florida dental hygienist license in good standing (Florida Board of Dentistry) — completed a CODA-accredited hygiene program, passed the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination, a regional/ADEX clinical exam, and the Florida laws-and-rules exam.
- Current BLS/CPR certification.
- Radiography is part of your Florida hygiene license — you'll expose digital images with DEXIS from day one, no separate certificate needed.
- Legal eligibility to work in the U.S.
Nice to have
- Florida local-anesthesia certificate — or the willingness to earn it (we sponsor the course).
- Russian or Spanish — a real asset with our patient base, not a requirement.
- Comfort with digital workflows: intraoral scanning, digital charting, and imaging software.
- Laser certification or periodontal-therapy experience.
- A hospitality instinct — you'd rather a patient leave calm than leave fast.
Pay & philosophy
Above-market hourly pay and a cash profit-share in the studio's success — deliberately not a production-quota job. We don't pay you per cleaning or push you to hit a daily number; we pay you well to run great visits and we tie a slice of your income to how the studio does overall. Continuing education, license renewal, and add-on certificates are supported. Exact ranges and benefits are set at hiring.
Questions, answered plainly
Is this a production-quota job?
No. There's no daily production number and no per-cleaning pay. Our whole model is built so the dentist's time is the constrained resource, not yours — which means your job is to run a genuinely good 31-minute visit, not to churn a column. Above-market hourly plus a profit-share is the deal.
Do I need a local-anesthesia certificate to apply?
No. Florida allows hygienists to earn one, and we'll sponsor the board-approved course after you join — but it's not a condition of hire. Come as you are; we'll grow what you can do.
How do the hours work if you're open seven days a week?
7am–7pm, seven days, is covered by a team on real shifts — it never means one hygienist working open-to-close alone. We build a schedule that's sustainable, because the person who's here in year one is who we want in year five.
Do I need to speak Russian?
No — but it's genuinely valued. A large part of who we're built for is Jacksonville's Russian-speaking community, and a bilingual hygienist changes how care lands. If you speak Russian (or Spanish), say so; it's an asset we pay attention to.
Where exactly is the studio, and when does it open?
The Ponte Vedra–Nocatee corridor in southeast Jacksonville, opening September 2026. The exact address is announced at lease signing. We're hiring the founding team now, ahead of doors opening.
Will you pay for CE and my license renewal?
Yes — continuing education, renewal, and certificates like local anesthesia are things we invest in. A hygienist who keeps growing is the point.