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Star Dental Partners
Nashville, Tennessee

Dental Hygienist - Temporary Assignment

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Compensation

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The week · per this posting · Monday – Wednesday

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Posted 2mo ago

Job Description

Green Dental Health & Aesthetics now hiring a Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH) in Nashville, TN for a short term assignment!

  • Timeframe: October 5 - November 19 (Approximately)
  • Hygienist Schedule: Monday - Wednesday 7:30 am - 5:00 pm
  • Thursday 6:30 am - 2:00 pm
  • To learn more about this practice, visit: nashvilledentistry.net
  • Advantages
  • Patient-centric community approach
  • Established practices in modern facilities
  • Private practice culture with complete business support
  • Work/life balance
  • Career growth
  • Professional development
  • Continuing education
  • Competitive compensation and full-time employment benefits including:
  • (FTE eligible at 28 or more clinical hours per week)
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision
  • Paid Time Off
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Paid Company Holidays, Bereavement, and Jury Duty
  • Paid $25K Basic Life Insurance
  • Voluntary Life and ADD Insurance
  • Pet Insurance
  • Short Term Disability
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for all employees and their household
  • Accidental Injury, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity plans with wellness incentives

Responsibilities

  • Screening patients during check-ups
  • Reviewing patient's history
  • Administers prophylactic treatment by scaling and polishing
  • Documents area of existing restorations
  • Use of X-ray
  • Instructing patients in oral hygiene technique and working with patients and their oral hygiene
  • Conduct screenings
  • Assist patients with oral hygiene

Qualifications

  • Active Tennessee Hygienist license
  • Current BLS/CPR certifications
  • Maintain annual OSHA, HIPAA and Infection Control training
  • Minimum 1 or more years of RDH clinical experience

Equal Employment Opportunity

Star Dental Partners provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Key Skills

Dental hygieneX-ray imagingPatient screeningOral hygiene instructionPatient history reviewHIPAA complianceOSHA complianceBLS certificationCPR certification

Dental Hygiene Career Context

The cost-of-living index for Tennessee is 91.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 58.6% of Tennessee clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Of the 50 active Dental Hygienist listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 32% have no call, 58% require no weekends.

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Dental Hygienist - Temporary Assignment at Star Dental Partners a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Dental Hygienist — ranked against 2,151 active Dental Hygienist listings on WeekdayDoc.

Location & Logistics

Tennessee has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

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Salary Distribution25 jobs · 23 employers

9
<$105k
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$105k-120k
4
$120k-135k
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$135k-150k
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$156k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks26 jobs · 23 employers

401k / retirement match
88% this job
CME allowance
54% this job
Sign-on bonus
38%
Loan repayment
15%
Relocation assistance
8%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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#2

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$65-$75/hr
#3

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$60-$70/hr
#4

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.9this job 6.4
Better work-life than 70% of Dental Hygienist listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 2,151 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call

Living in Nashville

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$413k
Typical market rent
$1,834/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
96.3
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026).

BEA 2024 · Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About Star Dental Partners

Hospitals and Health Care
Plano, Texas
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Paid time off
401(k) retirement plan
Paid company holidays
Bereavement leave
Jury duty leave