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Plainville Dental Group
Plainville, Connecticut

Associate Dentist

DentistPart-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

In search of a Part Time Dentist in Plainville, CT! Sign on Bonus! Opportunity to work Part-Time (2 days a week on Mondays and Tuesdays). There is an opportunity to make this a full-time position by also working another 2 days in our sister office in Bristol, CT.

This practice is well-established, comfortable, and family-oriented. Plainville Dental Group has great staff and is updated using the latest digital clinical and practice management technology.

This practice is insurance-based (no Medicaid) and has a large installed base of existing patients with a large number of new patients added each month. This practice has existing Dentists, and the practice is growing! The practice is part of a small, dentist-owned group called Plum Dental.

Plum is a group of 30+ practices in Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut that is owned by its founder dentists.

Plum was founded with the goal of serving as a long-term home for excellent dentists to practice how they want, and to enjoy the financial and personal rewards of private practice, but with the support and stability of a larger, successful, and growing dentist-led organization.

Compensation/Benefits/Partnership Collections-based salary with guaranteed minimum daily compensation for one year after joining the group. After just two years, there is the potential for equity ownership in both the practice and Plum for like-minded dentists that share our vision and values. We pay for malpractice insurance, CE courses, health/retirement benefits and more!

Key Responsibilities

Provide high-quality dental care to a large base of existing and new patients in a well-established practice. Collaborate with the dental team to maintain clinical standards using modern digital technology.

Requirements

The candidate must be a qualified dentist looking for a long-term professional home. Experience in a private practice setting is preferred to align with the group's vision and values.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

DentistryClinical technologyPatient careDigital dentistry

Dentistry Career Context

Of the 45 active Dentist listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 36% have no call, 87% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Connecticut is 103.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 62.6% of Connecticut clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Dentist by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Cost of livingConnecticut index 103.6US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Dentist listings in Connecticut106 active5,824 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 2% remote · 36% no call · 87% no weekends45 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentsign-on bonusConnecticut healthcare professional listings: 20% state a sign-on bonus (median $5k) · 8% offer loan repayment106 active listings, Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top Dentist Jobs

24 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

21 jobs · 19 employers
7
<$290k
10
$290k-350k
1
$350k
1
$461k
2
$500k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

19 jobs
401k / retirement match
74% this job
CME allowance
58%
Sign-on bonus
32% this job
Visa sponsorship
16%
Loan repayment
5%

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.0this job 1.5
Better work-life than 20% of Dentist listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 3,154 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Benefits & Perks

Sign-on Bonus
Malpractice Insurance
CE Courses
Health Benefits
Retirement Benefits
Equity Ownership Potential

Living in Plainville

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$368k
State income tax
Up to 7%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026).

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.