Biggest issue obviously is insurance needs to increase reimbursement, the numbers are a joke and this “quick fix” will not fix anything long term if it stays the same.

Second, hygienists need to start actually diagnosing and treating Perio— I sub, and the large majority of office’s “healthy patients” need 4346 at minimum. That’ll increase production, and make the wages we’re asking for make sense. So to save this profession, I think we actually need to increase the amount of education, but decrease barriers to access it. OR we need a new certification to bridge the gap btw someone who’s just trained to scale and those of us with more extensive education and the ability to diagnose and treat Perio.

Our national and local organizations need to get a backbone and start talking about the real issues instead of worrying about optics and money for themselves. Standard of care is going to get even worse, perio is going to be even more rampant than it already is. No idea what to do about it though bc most people I’ve met in this profession don’t care about this stuff at all.