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Temporary Hire

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Need a Dental Temp? We've Got You Covered

Need a reliable dental temp today, tomorrow, or next month? Learn how DirectDental’s real-time staffing platform and temp ratings help you keep your schedule full and your standards high.

HolliMarch 4, 2026

Dental team working together calmly in a busy dental office

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Stay Calm and Staff On: How DirectDental Saves the Day During Staffing Emergencies

Staffing emergencies don’t have to derail your dental practice. Learn how DirectDental’s real-time staffing platform helps you stay fully staffed, protect production, and keep patients happy—even on the most chaotic days.

HolliFebruary 18, 2026

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How DirectDental Minimizes Downtime in Your Dental Practice

Discover how DirectDental’s real-time staffing platform helps dental practices minimize downtime, maintain productivity, and keep patients happy by filling staffing gaps fast.

HolliFebruary 11, 2026

Dental team working together in a modern dental practice

HiringTemporary Hire

Temporary vs. Permanent Dental Staffing: Which One Really Saves You More?

Discover whether temporary or permanent dental staffing truly saves your practice more. Learn how a hybrid approach with DirectDental can cut costs, boost flexibility, and protect profitability.

HolliJanuary 22, 2026

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Why Temping Is the Secret to Finding Your Dream Dental Office

Temping isn’t just about flexibility and extra income—it’s one of the smartest ways for dental professionals to test-drive offices, grow skills, and discover their dream workplace through DirectDental.

HolliJanuary 15, 2026

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5 Signs You’re Facing Dental Office Burnout This Fall (and How to Bounce Back)

Fall Is in the Air… and So Is Dental Burnout The air is crisp, pumpkin spice coffee is flowing, and for many dental assistants and hygienists… so is burnout.

HolliNovember 3, 2025

Temporary HireDirectDental

Top Qualities Dental Offices Look for in a Temp

Temporary dental work offers flexibility, variety, and the chance to gain new experience in different offices — but with so many temps available, what makes a...

HolliNovember 3, 2025

Employer adviceTemporary Hire

Surviving a Short-Staffed Dental Office

Tips to keep your practice running when you’re down a team member (or two) Whether your practice is growing faster than expected or you just lost a key team...

HolliJuly 8, 2025

Guest Blog PostHiring

How to Pay Your Dental Temp

Written by HR for Health, partner of DirectDental HR for Health specializes in HR compliance, payroll, and employee management, which are built specifically...

HolliMay 9, 2025

Labor LawTemporary Hire

How to Simplify Temp Hiring (and Save Time + Money)

Employment laws across the country are changing—and if you’ve tried hiring dental temps lately, you may have noticed it’s not as easy as it used to be. Some states now require that temps be classified as W-2 employees, which means every time you bring in a temp, you may need to onboard them like a [

HolliMay 9, 2025

Dental OfficeTemporary Hire

Find Success With Dental Temps

Is your dental practice in need of temps with summer? This posts shares how to find success with temp dental assistants and hygienists.

HolliMay 23, 2024

Dental AssistantDental Hygienists

Find Dental Temp Success This Summer

Summertime is the best time to find temp jobs in dental practices. Here is how to find success and get paid!

HolliMay 13, 2024

Dental AssistantDental Job

The Interview Question you need to ask Dental Assistants

This one questions will help you find the perfect dental assistant for your team.

HolliApril 8, 2024

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Everything Dental Professionals Need to Know about DirectDental

This post tells Dental Assistants, Hygienists and Front Office Staff everything they need to know about finding temporary and permanent work with DirectDental.

HolliApril 3, 2024

COVID-19Dental Office

Navigating the dental hygienist shortage and the booming temp economy

It's no secret that finding dental hygienists has only gotten more difficult since the pandemic. Today's blog post comes from Andrea Kowalczyk, BS, RDH and deals with some hiring strategies for dental offices looking to retain permanent dental hygienists.

HolliApril 4, 2023

Dental AssistantDental Hygienists

The Joy of Temping

Temping has many advantages that you could be missing out on. Read this post to see why you may want to start temping as part of your dental career!

HolliJanuary 31, 2023

Dental JobDental Professionals

Dental Temp like a Pro!

As we roll into summer, you might find yourself with a few weeks off from your practice but you still want to work.

HolliJune 6, 2022

Employer adviceTemporary Hire

How to have Success with a Dental Temp

If you are in need of a temporary dental assistant, hygienist, front office dental personnel or dentist, here is how to have success.

HolliMay 31, 2022

Employer adviceHiring

Is your hiring process costing you candidates?

We went into COVID with a shortage of candidates and we are going to leave COVID with a shortage of candidates.

HolliFebruary 4, 2021

Dental AssistantDental Hygienists

What Should I Pay My Dental Staff?

With COVID we have seen the hourly pay rates of dental professionals on rise. Mainly due to the shortage of applicants and workers in the field.

HolliJanuary 26, 2021

COVID-19Dental Office

Tis the season of Dental Temps

How to staff your temp jobs during a pandemic Happy December! It is finally here! The season of dental temps!

HolliDecember 1, 2020

Dental OfficeDirectDental Updates

Better Candidate Matching on DirectDental

DirectDental was designed to connect Dental Professionals seeking work to offices that need help. We designed the site to operate like a virtual dental staffing agency and many of you have seen a lot of success!

HolliSeptember 29, 2020

Employer adviceLabor Law

Dental Temp Onboarding Checklist

Stay compliant with your temporary dental assistant or hygienist. We worked with HR specialists to bring you this Dental Temp Onboarding Checklist!

HolliAugust 19, 2020

Dental AssistantDental Hygienists

Everything you need to know about being a Dental Temp.

Let’s be honest. Right now is a weird time to be in the dental field. Or it’s just a weird time in general for everybody, everywhere.

HolliAugust 12, 2020

Dental OfficeEmployer advice

Say GOODBYE to Dental Staffing Agency Fees

We have spoken to a lot of you, but I guess it must sound too good to be true, because you all keep trying to give us more money. So I am going to say it big and loud. Ready? WE NO LONGER CHARGE PERMANENT PLACEMENT FEES! AND WE NO LONGER CHARGE DAILY TEMP FEES! […]

HolliJune 23, 2020

COVID-19Dental Job

What dental professionals need to reopen your practice

Dental professionals are eager to get back to work, but at the same time want to keep themselves and their families safe. We've listened and assembled a list of tips based on what is being said by many of those working in the dental field. What dental professionals need to reopen your practice. #1

HolliMay 5, 2020

COVID-19Dental Assistant

5 Tips for Dental Professionals to Prepare for the Future

In another post, we laid out the predictions that dentists have in regard to the future of density post coronavirus. In this post, we want to make sure you are ready to get back to work regardless of what the future holds. So, here are: 5 tips for dental professionals to prepare for the future. #1 [

HolliApril 21, 2020

Dental AssistantDental Hygienists

6 financial tips for Dental Professionals out of work due to the Coronavirus.

Since the California Dental Association (CDA), sent out a message urging California dental practices to “voluntarily suspend nonessential or non-urgent dental...

HolliMarch 17, 2020

Dental OfficeEmployer advice

Love Your Team this Valentine's Day

“You are, and always have been, my dream.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook Nothing like the month of love to have you reevaluate your team. Do you love the people you choose to surround yourself with daily? Have you created YOUR dream team? If not, it's ok. That is why I am writing […]

HolliFebruary 4, 2020

Dental OfficeEmployer advice

What position does your dental practice need to hire?

Do you feel like your practice is doing ok, but that you are stuck at a level you know you could do better than? Or is your team constantly feeling overworked and exhausted but you aren’t sure what position you need to hire for? Do you feel if you could just lighten the load of […]

HolliOctober 16, 2019

Dental OfficeEmployer advice

How To Have Success With A Dental Temp

The demand for dental temps is on the rise and its understandable. More dental assistants and dental hygienists are becoming full-time dental temps to give...

HolliAugust 29, 2019

Dental AssistantDental Hygienists

How to Dental Temp like a Pro!

Dental Professionals are starting to have successful careers as full-time dental temps. And understandably so!

HolliJuly 31, 2019

Dental AssistantDental Hygienists

HOW TO PAY YOUR DENTAL TEMPS

This post is meant to give you some insight and resources on how to pay your Dental Temps.

HolliJuly 18, 2019

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Lesson 4: Accept Temp Work

Lesson 4: Temp Request This easy lesson walks you through how to Accept or Decline a Temp Request!

HolliJuly 15, 2019

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Lesson 3: Your Temp Schedule

Lesson 3: Your Temp Schedule This easy lesson walks you through how to add your temp availability!

HolliJuly 14, 2019

Dental AssistantDental Hygienists

Lesson 1: Complete Your Professional Profile

Lesson 1: Complete Your Profile This easy lesson walks you through how to complete your profile in minutes!

HolliJuly 12, 2019

Dental OfficeEmployer advice

Lesson 2: Post a Job

Lesson 2: Post a Job Looking for candidates with the right experience & skills? This quick & detailed lesson walks you through how to post a job that will...

HolliJuly 3, 2019

HiringLabor Law

How to hire dental temps in California

The employment laws in California are ever changing and while the demand for dental temps in increasing, it has become more difficult for Dental Offices to employ dental temps. Have no fear! We are here to help! This post takes a quick look at how to work around the system. We want to start out […

HolliMay 3, 2019

Dental AssistantHiring

6 Tips to Find Dental Assistants – Including Job Template!

If you have been struggling to get qualified Dental Assistants to apply to your job, you are not alone.

HolliApril 15, 2019

Dental JobDental Office

Job Advertisement Timeline

DirectDental is shaking up how the dental industry staffs and hires temps and professionals.

HolliApril 10, 2019

Dental OfficeEmployer advice

Use DirectDental to lower your payroll costs!

Let’s face it… Dental is Seasonal. If you run a dental practice, you’re familiar with the busy seasons when the schedule is typically full and being...

HolliNovember 7, 2018

Dental OfficeEmployer advice

5 Reasons to Hire Perm & Temp Staff on DirectDental.com

We are excited to introduce DirectDental.com for Dental Practice Employers!

frankOctober 3, 2018