Pay, licensing, loans, the cost of a house, and how to read an offer. Every number has a source and a date.
BLS pay data for general dentists in Maine, Portland and Bangor versus Massachusetts and the US, then the house, the taxes and the groceries that pay has to cover.
What the Maine Board of Dental Practice asks for, what it costs, how the three-year endorsement route works for dentists licensed elsewhere, and how long to allow.
The Maine Dental Education Loan Repayment Program, the National Health Service Corps, Maine's health care provider pilot, and the state's $2,500-a-year tax credit, with the catches.
84 shortage areas, 53 dentists per 100,000 people, one dental school, and a retirement wave that already started. The sourced version of what every Maine practice owner will tell you.
For practice owners: what associates in Maine are paid, the three compensation structures and the percentages the trade press calls standard, what recruiters charge, and the math on an empty chair.
Daily guarantee or percentage of collections, what 'production' really means, lab fees, non-competes, and the five questions that tell you whether an offer is good.
What a real partnership path looks like, the three ways practices are valued, how buy-ins are financed, and the questions that separate an honest offer from a vague one.
Licensing, DEA and state registrations, housing in a tight market, winter, schools, and the order to do it in so nothing blocks your start date.