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Aria Care Partners
Rock Island, Illinois

Traveling Dentist – Nursing Home Care

DentistPart-Time

Compensation

Pay not listed

The week · per this posting

Schedule not stated in this posting — no days, weekends, call or nights given.

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Posted 3mo ago

Job Description

We seek a highly skilled and compassionate Mobile Dentist to join our dynamic team!

As a Mobile Dentist, your locations will be 20 minutes to 2 hours away. You are paid for all drive and clinic time.

If you are a new college graduate or experienced Dentist, this opportunity is for you!

Being a Mobile Dentist with Aria Care Partners provides you with the opportunity to deliver unmatched patient care to residents in skilled nursing facilities. You will be responsible for assessing dental health, addressing dental concerns, developing and discussing the treatment plan, performing limited procedures, and conducting oral cancer screenings.

Work-Life Balance that Works for You! We are seeking a Dentist for one days per week. We work with your schedule!

Compensation

Competitive pay with a minimum daily guarantee. Drive time + Clinic time is all compensated.

Responsibilities

  • Develop treatment plans to manage, improve, and treat dental and oral health issues
  • Perform simple procedures such as exams, fillings, extractions, and denture-related services.
  • Order diagnostic measures, such as x-rays.
  • Apply helpful agents to teeth, such as silver diamine fluoride, to arrest decay.
  • Maintain accurate dental records.

Manage and communicate with the facility and family to ensure the patient has the proper support for successful daily oral hygiene.

Do what you do best: patient care! We focus on the clinical operations team managing all the coordination, including Scheduling and billing, so you can stay focused on doing what you love, providing "The Senior Standard of Care" to our patients!

Aria Care Partners is the national leader in providing onsite dental, vision, hearing, and podiatry care to over 3500 long-term care and skilled nursing facilities across 25 states. Aria Care Partners believes that our clinicians should be able to focus on providing the best, most comprehensive care for their patients.

Our clinicians visit different skilled nursing communities daily, bringing life-affirming care to an underserved population. Our business model, innovation, customer support and teamwork deliver an unparalleled customer experience, resulting in a customer satisfaction rating of over 98%.

Executing this strategic philosophy resulted in rapid company growth with revenue increases of 25%-30% annually over the last 4 years, nearly doubling the size of the company.

Company values include caring fully for our customers and fellow employees, striving for excellence and continuous improvement, and excelling through the power of teamwork and collaboration. At Aria Care Partners, our mission is to enrich the quality of life for every resident with passion and compassion.

Working at Aria Matters!

Requirements

The position is open to both new college graduates and experienced dentists. Candidates must be capable of performing mobile dental services and managing patient treatment plans.

Key Skills

Dental examsDenture servicesTreatment planningDental record maintenanceCommunication

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Traveling Dentist – Nursing Home Care at Aria Care Partners a 6.6 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Dentist — ranked against 3,154 active Dentist listings on WeekdayDoc.

Dentistry Career Context

Of the 50 active Dentist listings this role was benchmarked against, 34% have no call, 80% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Illinois is 100.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 62.6% of Illinois clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Dentist by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score6.6 / 10 · top 25% in dentistranked against 3,154 Dentist listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Listed paynot listedDentist median $275k (middle half $200k–$300k)16 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingIllinois index 100.0US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Dentist listings in Illinois177 active5,625 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 34% no call · 80% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedIllinois healthcare professional listings: 32% state a sign-on bonus (median $5k) · 7% offer loan repayment177 active listings, Nov 2026
New Dentistry listings213 in the last 30 days209 the 30 days before (about the same)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (3,154 Dentist listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.0this job 6.6
Better work-life than 80% of Dentist listings

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

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About Aria Care Partners

Hospitals and Health Care
Overland Park, Kansas
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

Paid drive time
Paid clinic time
Minimum daily guarantee
Flexible schedule
Clinical operations team handles scheduling and billing

Living in Rock Island

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$154k
Typical market rent
$932/mo
Residents’ average commute
19 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
89.1
State income tax
Up to 5%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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