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Smile Programs
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Dentist

DentistNo weekendsNo nightsFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

Dentistry with a work-life balance

Make Money While Making a Difference

If you’re looking for Part-Time OR Full-Time work at a competitive salary while helping kids in need, let’s talk.

Michigan Dental Outreach, a school-based mobile dental practice, is seeking a Dentist in Kalamazoo, MI and the surrounding areas to help provide dental care to underserved children at their school.

Our innovative in school dental program offers something different than a traditional dental practice. With a workday that ends with the school day and no nights or weekends, our program is perfect for dentists looking to supplement their current income, working parents, recent graduates, those looking towards retirement and anyone who wants to make a difference in the dental field.

We are currently looking for dentists in Kalamazoo, MI and the surrounding areas.

Dentist Qualifications

  • DMD or DDS degree
  • Ability to work well with both children & adults
  • Valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and willingness to travel daily to/from school site

Michigan Dental Outreach Offers

Evenings, weekends and summers off!

Working a school day schedule (about 6 – 7 hours); on average between 8:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.

  • Benefit package (health, dental, vision)
  • Unique work experience and flexible scheduling
  • Full and part time positions
  • Competitive compensation
  • State-of-the-art portable dental equipment

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Who We Are

Smile America Partners is the nation's leading in-school dental program founded almost two decades ago by two moms, who happen to also be dentists.

The founders saw a tremendous need among underserved school aged children who did not have easy access to dental care and who often suffered from poor oral hygiene, tooth decay, pain and associated medical problems.

Knowing that many parents could not take their children to the dentist due to issues including time off from work and transportation challenges, they sought to bring the care to the need.

Today, through its dental partners, Smile America Partners provides preventive and restorative care to approximately 500,000 children per year.

Tooth decay is the most common, and preventable disease among children, more common than asthma. In fact, each year, over 51 million school hours are lost due to oral health related issues.

Smile America Partners affiliates with state licensed dentists, hygienists and assistants who use state-of-the-art portable equipment to provide all services onsite, directly in the school or in a self-contained mobile dental facility on site at the school.

If portable equipment is used, classrooms, auditoriums or other school venues are literally transformed into fully functional dental offices for the day.

Our expertise, obtained through years of experience bringing mobile dental care to schools, as well as through our highly qualified staff, enables us to bring exceptional care with minimal disruption to the normal school routine.

Smile America Partners is currently active in 20 states and has ongoing strategic partnerships with over 8,000 school districts, including 21 of the 25 largest school districts in the country.

Given the ongoing lack of access for many underserved children across the country, our services are in great demand and we are always looking for caring, compassionate professionals to join our team and play their part in making a difference in the lives of today's underserved children.

Rewarding Work. Competitive Compensation. Smile America Partners.

Smile America Partners is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation or protected veteran status.

Key Responsibilities

Provide dental care to underserved children at their school locations using portable equipment. Maintain a school-day schedule to deliver preventive and restorative dental services.

Requirements

Must hold a DMD or DDS degree and possess a valid driver's license with reliable transportation. Ability to work effectively with both children and adults is required.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Pediatric dentistryPatient careCommunicationClinical skills

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Dentist at Smile Programs a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Dentist — ranked against 3,154 active Dentist listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.

Dentistry Career Context

Smile Programs holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 79/100, 22 active listings.

Of the 46 active Dentist listings this role was benchmarked against, 37% have no call, 83% require no weekends.

Dentist by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score6.4 / 10 · above average in dentistranked against 3,154 Dentist listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Listed paynot listedDentist median $208k (middle half $200k–$275k)13 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost of livingMichigan index 96.2US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Dentist listings in Michigan145 active5,806 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 37% no call · 83% no weekends46 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedMichigan healthcare professional listings: 25% state a sign-on bonus (median $33k) · 6% offer loan repayment145 active listings, Oct 2026
Smile Programssilver tier, 79/100Top Employers work-life index22 active listings
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (3,154 Dentist listings), Top Employers work-life 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

27 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

21 jobs · 20 employers
7
<$295k
11
$295k-355k
0
$355k-415k
1
$461k
2
$500k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

20 jobs
401k / retirement match
75%
CME allowance
55%
Sign-on bonus
30%
Visa sponsorship
15%
Loan repayment
5%

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$150k-$500k
#2

General Dentist

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$300k-$500k
#3

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$230k-$461k
#4

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.0this job 6.4
Better work-life than 70% of Dentist listings

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

  • No weekends
  • No nights
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About Smile Programs

Hospitals and Health Care
Farmington Hills, MI
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Evenings Off
Weekends Off
Summers Off
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Flexible Scheduling
Full and Part Time Positions

Living in Kalamazoo

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$231k
Typical market rent
$1,216/mo
Residents’ average commute
19 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
94.8
State income tax
Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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